Country Report
Timor-Leste upstream fiscal summary
Report summary
All upstream licences in Timor-Leste are awarded through licensing rounds under production sharing contract terms (PSCs). The terms are set for each licensing round, and include royalty of 5%, no cost recovery ceiling and contractor’s profit share of 60%. Other non-biddable items include a supplemental profits tax paid of 22.5% and corporate income tax of 30%. The State has an option to take up to 20% stake in any development. In August 2019, Timor-Leste resolved maritime border dispute with Australia and removed Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA).The JPDA was ceded to Timor-Leste.
Table of contents
- Basis
- Licence terms
- Government equity participation
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Fiscal terms
- Bonuses, rentals and fees
- Royalty
- Ring fencing
- Base
- Rate
- Payment schedule
- PSC production sharing
- Ring fencing
- PSC cost recovery
- Base
- Rate (cost recovery ceiling)
- Recoverable costs
- Unrecovered costs
- Excess cost recovery
- PSC profit sharing
- Base
- Rate
- Payment schedule
- Corporate income tax
- Ring fencing
- Base
- Rate
- Payment schedule
- Supplemental profits tax
- Ring fencing
- Base
- Rate
- Payment schedule
- Fiscal treatment of decommissioning
- Product pricing
- Recent history of fiscal changes
- Stability Provisions
- Split of the barrel and share of profit
- Effective royalty rate and maximum government share
- Progressivity
- Fiscal deterrence
Tables and charts
This report includes 15 images and tables including:
- Timeline
- Timeline details
- Split of the barrel - oil
- Split of the barrel - gas
- Share of profit - oil
- Share of profit - gas
- Effective royalty rate and minimum state share
- Maximum government share and maximum state share
- State share versus Pre-Share IRR - oil
- State share versus Pre-Share IRR - gas
- Investor IRR versus Pre-Share IRR - oil
- Investor IRR versus Pre-Share IRR - gas
- Bonuses, Rentals and Fees
- Indirect taxes
- Assumed terms by location - oil and gas
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