Fuel Tax (Fuel Blends) Determination 2006 (No. 1) (Cth)

Fuel Tax (Fuel Blends) Determination 2006 (No. 1)

Fuel Tax Act 2006

Under section 95-5 of the Fuel Tax Act 2006 (Fuel Tax Act), I make the following determination:

Citation

1. This determination may be cited as the Fuel Tax (Fuel Blends) Determination 2006 (No. 1).

Legislative instrument

2. The determination is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.

Commencement

3. The determination has effect from 1 July 2006.

Object

4. Under section 95-5 of the Fuel Tax Act, the Commissioner of Taxation may determine that a blend of a fuel and another product does not constitute a fuel for the purposes of the Fuel Tax Act.

Application

5. This determination applies to blends that are produced on or after 1 July 2006.

Interpretation

6. In this determination:

CAS registry number refers to the unique number allocated to the chemical substance in the registry of the Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society.

taxable fuel means taxable fuel as defined in section 110-5 of the Fuel Tax Act but only if they are classified to subitem 10.25, 10.26, 10.27 or 10.28 of the Schedule to the Excise Tariff Act 1921.

v/v means volume to volume.

Where a blend is not a fuel

7.   A blend of a taxable fuel and another product or other products is not a fuel for the purposes of the fuel tax law where:

(i)   the blend is not marketed or sold for use as fuel in an internal combustion engine; and

(ii)  it can be demonstrated that the blend contains a product listed in the Schedule at a concentration equal to or greater than the specified minimum; or

(iii) it can be demonstrated that the blend contains more than one product listed in the Schedule and the total concentration of those products is equal to or exceeds 10% by volume.

1. This applies whether or not the blend contains other substances.

Example:

The following blends are not marketed or sold for use as fuel in an internal combustion engine:

(a)        90% toluene with 10% v/v methyl ethyl ketone

(b)        90% toluene with 8% v/v methyl ethyl ketone and 2% v/v butanol (Other Alcohol)

(c)        92% toluene with 4% v/v methyl ethyl ketone and 4% v/v butanol (Other Alcohol)

Under this determination, blends (a) and (b) do not constitute fuel for the purposes of the fuel tax law; blend (c) is a fuel for those purposes.

Dated this 30^th day of June 2006

Signed Paul Southwell

Paul Dennis Southwell

Acting Deputy Commissioner and Delegate of the Commissioner of Taxation

Schedule

Item	Product	CAS Registry Number	Minimum concentration % v/v
1	Tertiary butyl alcohol	75-65-0	0.5
2	Other alcohols (other than methanol, ethanol and isopropyl alcohol)	-	10.0
3	Ketones	-	10.0
4	Methyl tertiary butyl ether	1634-04-4	1.0
5	Di-isopropyl ether	108-20-3	1.0
6	Other ethers	-	10.0
7	Esters	-	10.0
8	Surfactants	1.0
9	Silicone Oils	2.0
10	Oleic Acid	112-80-1	2.0
11	Water	-	5.0