30The residual pricing method for working out cost‑plus price and netback price

30 The residual pricing method for working out cost‑plus price and netback price

This method statement is the residual pricing method for calculating a cost‑plus price and netback price (and the related RPM price) for a taxpayer who is a participant in an integrated operation in the assessment year:

Method statement

Step 1. Under section 31, identify all types of cost associated with the integrated operation up to and including the assessment year.

Step 2. Under section 32, exclude certain types of cost.

Step 3. Under section 33, classify each remaining type of cost as a direct cost or an indirect cost of the integrated operation, or a personal cost of a participant.

Step 4. Under section 34, exclude any personal costs of other participants. The costs that are left are the included costs for the taxpayer (see section 35).

Step 5. Under section 36, classify each included cost as an operating cost or a capital cost.

Step 6. Identify the amount of:

(a) each included operating cost incurred in the assessment year; and

(b) each included capital cost incurred up to and including the assessment year.

When doing so, use section 37 (about the amount and timing of certain included capital costs) if that section applies to an included capital cost.

Step 7. Under section 38:

(a) classify each included direct cost as a phase cost of one of the phases of the integrated operation; and

(b) classify each phase cost as an upstream cost or a downstream cost; and

(c) divide each included indirect cost into an upstream cost and a downstream cost.

Step 8. Under section 39 (about capital costs for units of property completed over several years), adjust the amount and timing of an included capital cost if that section applies to that cost.

Step 9. Under sections 40 and 41, adjust the amount and timing of an included capital cost whenever one of those sections applies to that cost.

Step 10. For each included capital cost, allocate to each year of tax from the production year onward a cost with the amount given by section 42.

Step 11. The costs for the assessment year are:

(a) the included upstream and downstream operating costs for the assessment year; and

(b) the upstream and downstream capital costs allocated to the assessment year under step 10; and

(c) the downstream personal costs of the taxpayer for the assessment year.

Step 12. For each phase cost for the assessment year, adjust the amount of that cost under section 43 if that section applies to the phase cost.