Section 74 Nigeria Tax Act 2025

Section 74 of the Nigeria Tax Act 2025 is about Pre-production cost. It provides as follows:

Where a company has not commenced the production and sale or disposal of chargeable oil, all costs incurred wholly and exclusively for the purpose of coming into upstream petroleum operations, subject to sections 68 and 69 of this Act, shall upon commencement of production and sale or disposal of chargeable oil be deemed to have incurred a qualifying pre-production capital expenditure which shall be amortised in line with paragraphs 2 and 14 of Part II of First Schedule to this Act.