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ARTICLE 6
INCOME FROM IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

 

1.         Income from immovable property may be taxed in the Contracting State in which such property is situated.

 

2.         The term “immovable property” shall be defined in accordance with the law of the Contracting State in which the property is situated.  The term shall in any case include property accessory to immovable property, 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 aircrafts shall not be regarded as immovable property.

 

3.         The provisions of paragraph 1 shall apply to income derived from 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 the immovable property of an entterprise and to income from immovable property used for the performance of professional services.

 

 

ARTICLE 7
Business profits

1.         The profits of an enterprise of a Contraction 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 that permanent establishment.

 

2.         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 of the enterprise which are incurred for the purposes 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.

 

4.         In so far as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts or, 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 method.  The method adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be accordance with the principles laid down in this Article.

 

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.         For the purpose of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary.

 

7.         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
Air transport

1.         Income from the operation of aircraft in international traffic shall be taxable only in the Contracting State in which the place of effective management is situated.

 

2.         The provisions of paragraph 1 shall likewise apply in repect of profits derived from participation in pools of any kind by enterprises engaged in air transport.

 

 

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 enterprises

                         and taxes accordingly.

 

 

ARTICLE 10
Dividends

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

 

2.         However,  such dividends may be taxed in the Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, and according to the laws of that Contracting State, but the tax so charged shall not exceed 20 percent of the gross amount of the dividends if the recipient is a company which owns at least 25 percent of the capital of the company paying such dividends.  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 or rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares according to the taxation laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident.

 

4.         The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the recipient of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting State, has in the other Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, a permanent establishment with which the holding by virtue of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected.  In such a case, the provisions of Article 7 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 Contracting State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid by the company to persons who are not residents of that other Contracting State, or subject the company’ s undistributed profits to a tax on undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in the other Contracting State.

 

 

Last updated: 08.12.2011