BCL fund strategy benefits Aust marts
Miner’s portfolio investment lifts shareholders’ funds by 11%: Taylor
THE strategic move by Bougainville Copper Ltd to place investment funds on the Australian equities market has spurred strong growth in Australian markets.
Chairman Peter Taylor, reporting in the company’s 2006 annual report, said a retained profit of K3.7 million for last year with investment portfolio increasing by K34 million lifted shareholder funds by 11% to K378.2 million.
Mr Taylor noted the increase in profit compared to a measly K0.1 million in 2005 was due to higher dividend income of K0.9 million and reduced expenses principally due to lower expenditure on the tax dispute and a K1.4 million reduction in exchange losses.
Taking up the company’s tax dispute with the Government, the controversy came about with BCL being one of the first resource companies to be audited after the World Bank extended loan funds to the PNG Government to be used by the mining sector in capacity building.
“The audit process took many months to complete and the company was required to spend considerable money and management time to comply with the audit process.
“No monetary compensation was provided,” Mr Taylor reported.
He added that the suspension of mining activities in 1989 led to considerable losses to the company which the company offset against revenue.
At the same time, the company claimed depreciation for its remaining mine assets.
The chairman said despite the approach which has been allowed by the Internal Review Commission (IRC) every year since 1989, the tax audit still required the issuance of new assessment on the company’s assets.
“The basis for the reassessment is that the IRC claims the company has no assets that can be depreciated,” Mr Taylor said.
The issue had since been brought before the national and Supreme Courts, respectively, with a ruling made in favour of IRC.
Because of this, the company’s funds held in PNG of K12.9 million have been transferred to IRC pending the outcome of an appeal against the tax assessments.
“The company is currently relying on Rio Tinto to facilitate payments of its day to day expenses in PNG,” Mr Taylor said.
Selbstverständlich wissen wir ja alle das BOC kein Geld haben darf!!!
Miner’s portfolio investment lifts shareholders’ funds by 11%: Taylor
THE strategic move by Bougainville Copper Ltd to place investment funds on the Australian equities market has spurred strong growth in Australian markets.
Chairman Peter Taylor, reporting in the company’s 2006 annual report, said a retained profit of K3.7 million for last year with investment portfolio increasing by K34 million lifted shareholder funds by 11% to K378.2 million.
Mr Taylor noted the increase in profit compared to a measly K0.1 million in 2005 was due to higher dividend income of K0.9 million and reduced expenses principally due to lower expenditure on the tax dispute and a K1.4 million reduction in exchange losses.
Taking up the company’s tax dispute with the Government, the controversy came about with BCL being one of the first resource companies to be audited after the World Bank extended loan funds to the PNG Government to be used by the mining sector in capacity building.
“The audit process took many months to complete and the company was required to spend considerable money and management time to comply with the audit process.
“No monetary compensation was provided,” Mr Taylor reported.
He added that the suspension of mining activities in 1989 led to considerable losses to the company which the company offset against revenue.
At the same time, the company claimed depreciation for its remaining mine assets.
The chairman said despite the approach which has been allowed by the Internal Review Commission (IRC) every year since 1989, the tax audit still required the issuance of new assessment on the company’s assets.
“The basis for the reassessment is that the IRC claims the company has no assets that can be depreciated,” Mr Taylor said.
The issue had since been brought before the national and Supreme Courts, respectively, with a ruling made in favour of IRC.
Because of this, the company’s funds held in PNG of K12.9 million have been transferred to IRC pending the outcome of an appeal against the tax assessments.
“The company is currently relying on Rio Tinto to facilitate payments of its day to day expenses in PNG,” Mr Taylor said.
Selbstverständlich wissen wir ja alle das BOC kein Geld haben darf!!!