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ARTICLE 6
INCOME FROM IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

 

1.         Income  derived  by  a resident of a Contracting  State  from  immovable property  (including  income  from agriculture  or  forestry)  situated   in   the   other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.

 

2.         The term " immovable  property"  shall have  the  meaning  which it has under the law  of  the  Contracting  State in which the property in question is situated.  The  term  shall  in any case include  property  accessory  to immovable  property,  livestock  and  equipment  used  in agriculture and forestry, rights to which the  provisions  of  general  law  respecting  landed  property  apply ,  usufruct of immovable property and rights to variable  or  fixed  payments as consideration for the working  of,  or the  right to work, mineral deposits, sources  and  other natural resources; ships, boats and aircraft shall not be regarded as immovable property.

 

3.         The  provisions  of paragraph 1 shall  apply  to  income  derived from the direct use, letting, or  use  in any other form of immovable property.

 

4.         The  provisions   of  paragraphs  1 and 3  shall  also  apply to the income from immovable property  of  an enterprise  and  to  income from immovable property  used  for  the performance of independent personal services.

 

 

ARTICLE 7
BUSINESS PROFITS

1.         The  profits of an enterprise of a  Contracting  State  shall  be taxable only in that  State  unless  the enterprise  carries on business in the other  Contracting  State through a permanent establishment situated therein.   If  the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid,  the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to:

            (a)        that permanent establishment;

            (b)        sales  in  that  other  State  of goods or merchandise of the

                         same or similar kind as those sold  through that permanent

                         establishment; or

            (c)        other  business  activities carried  on in that  other State of

                         the same  or  similar kind  as  those  effected  through   that 

                         permanent establishment.

 

2.         Subject to  the  provisions  of  paragraph 3,   where  an  enterprise of a Contracting State  carries  on  business  in  the  other  Contracting  State  through   a  permanent establishment situated therein, there shall  in each  Contracting State be attributed to  that  permanent  establishment the profits which it might be expected   to  make   if   it were a distinct  and  separate  enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the  same or  similar conditions and dealing  wholly  independently with  the enterprise  of  which  it  is  a  permanent  establishment.

 

3.         In  the  determination  of  the  profits  of  a  permanent  establishment,  there  shall  be  allowed  as deductions  expenses which are incurred for the  purposes of the business of the permanent establishment  including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred,  whether  in the State in which  the  permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere.  However, no such  deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid  (otherwise  than towards  reimbursement  of  actual  expenses)  by  the permanent establishment  to  the  head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices,  by way  of  royalties,  fees or other  similar  payments  in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by  way of  commission,  for specific services performed  or  for management,   or,  except  in  the  case  of  a   banking enterprise,  by  way of interest on moneys  lent  to  the permanent  establishment.  Likewise, no account shall  be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent  establishment,   for  amounts  charged  (otherwise   than  towards  reimbursement  of  actual  expenses),  by   the permanent  establishment  to  the  head  office  of   the enterprise  or  any  of  its  other  offices  by  way  of  royalties,  fees or other similar payments in return  for  the  use  of  patents  or other  rights,  or  by  way  of  commission   for  specific  services  performed  or   for  management,   or,  except  in  the  case  of  a   banking  enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the head  office of the enterprise or any of its other offices.

 

4.         Insofar  as   it  has  been  customary   in   a  Contracting   State  to  determine  the  profits  to   be  attributed to a permanent establishment, in the case of a  person  who does not claim  taxation on the basis  of  the actual net profits of the permanent establishment, on the basis  of  a certain reasonable percentage of the gross receipts of the  permanent establishment,  nothing  in paragraph  2 shall preclude such State  from  determining the profits to be taxed by such a method.

 

5.         No profits shall be attributed to a  permanent  establishment  by  reason of the mere  purchase  by  that  permanent  establishment of goods or merchandise for  the  enterprise.

 

6.         Where profits include items of income which  are dealt   with  separately  in  other  Articles  of  this Convention,  then the provisions of those Articles  shall  not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

 

 

ARTICLE 8
SHIPPING AND AIR TRANSPORT

1.         Profits  derived   by  an  enterprise  of a Contracting  State  from  the operation  of  aircraft  in international  traffic  shall  be taxable  only  in  that  Contracting State.

 

2.         Income derived by  an  enterprise  of a Contracting   State  from  the  operation  of  ships   in  international traffic  may  be  taxed  in   the   other  Contracting State but the tax imposed in that other State shall be reduced  by an amount  equal  to  50  per  cent  thereof.

 

3.         The  provisions of paragraphs  1 and  2  shall  also apply, to profits from the participation in a  pool,  a joint business or an international operating agency.

 

 

ARTICLE 9
ASSOCIATED ENTERPRISES

Where

            (a)        an  enterprise   of   a   Contracting   State,  participates 

                         directly  or  indirectly in  the management,  control  or  capital 

                         of  an enterprise  of the other Contracting State, or

            (b)        the same persons participate directly or indirectly in the

                         management, control or capital  of  an enterprise  of  a 

                         Contracting  State  and  an  enterprise  of   the  other

                         Contracting State,and in either case conditions are made or

                         imposed between  the  two  enterprises in their  commercial 

                         or  financial  relations  which  differ from those which would 

                         be  made between  independent enterprises, then any

                         profits  which would,  but for those conditions, have accrued

                         to one  of  the enterprises, but  by reason of those conditions,

                         have  not  so accrued, may be included in the profits  of  that

                         enterprise and taxed accordingly.

 

 

ARTICLE 10
DIVIDENDS

1.         Dividends   paid  by   a  company   which  is  a  resident  of  a Contracting State to a  resident  of  the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.

 

2.         However,  such  dividends may  also be taxed in the  Contracting  State of which the company  paying  the dividends  is  a resident  and according to the  laws  of  that State, but if the recipient is the beneficial  owner of the dividends, the tax so charged shall not exceed  10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends.  

The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by  mutual  agreement settle the mode of  application  of  these limitations.   This paragraph shall not affect the taxation  of  the  company in respect of the profits out of  which  the dividends are paid.

 

3.         The  term  "dividends" as used in  this  Article means  income  from   shares,  mining   shares,  founders shares or other  rights,  not  being  debt-claims,  participating  in profits, as well as income  from  other corporate rights which is subjected to the same  taxation  treatment as income from shares by the laws of the  State of  which  the  company  making  the  distribution  is  a resident.

 

4.         The  provisions  of  paragraphs 1 and  2  shall  not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on business in the  other Contracting State of which the company  paying the dividends is  a  resident  through  a  permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other  State  independent  personal services from a  fixed  base situated therein, and the holding in respect of which the dividends  are  paid is effectively connected  with  such  permanent establishment or fixed base.  In such case  the provisions  of Article 7 or Article 14, as the  case  may be, shall apply.

 

5.         Where  a  company  which is  a  resident  of  a  Contracting State  derives  profits or income   from  the other Contracting State, that other State may not  impose any  tax  on the dividends paid by  the  company,  except insofar as such dividends are paid to a resident of  that other State or insofar as the holding in respect of which the  dividends are paid is effectively connected  with  a  permanent establishment or a fixed base situated in  that  other  State,  nor  subject  the  company's undistributed profits to a tax on the company's undistributed  profits, even  if the dividends paid or the undistributed  profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising  in such  other  State.  Nothing  in this paragraph shall  be construed as preventing a Contracting State from imposing  income  tax,  according  to the laws of  that  State,  on the disposal of profits made by a permanent establishment situated therein, but such tax shall not be levied at the rate  exceeding the rate provided in paragraph 2 of  this  Article.

 

 

Last updated: 08.12.2011