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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 rights 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 income or 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 income or 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.

 

The provision of subparagraphs (b) and (c) shall apply only if it can be shown that the sales or activities were not carried out by the permanent establishment in order to avoid tax in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated.

 

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 income or 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 condition 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 under the provisions of domestic law 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 a 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 on the basis of a certain percentage of the gross receipt of the enterprise or of the permanent establishment or on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by  such a method as may be customary;  the method adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article.

 

5.         No income or 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 purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the income or 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 income or profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Agreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

 

 

ARTICLE 8
SHIPPING, AIR  TRANSPORT AND CONTAINERS

1.         Income or 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 or profits 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 percent thereof;

 

3.         Income or profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State from the use, maintenance, or rental of containers (including trailers, barges, and related equipment for the transport of containers) that are incidental to income from the operation of ships or aircraft in international traffic shall be treated for purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2 as income from the operation of ships or aircraft in international traffic.

 

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

 

 

ARTICLE 9
ASSOCIATED ENTERPRISES

1.         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 income or 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 income or profits of that

                       enterprise and taxed accordingly; 

 

2.         Where a Contracting State includes in the profits of an enterprise of that State and taxes accordingly, profits on which an enterprise of the other Contracting State has been charged to tax in that other State and the profits so included are profits which would have accrued to the enterprise of the first-mentioned State if the conditions made between the two enterprises had been those which would have been made between independent enterprises, then that other State shall make an appropriate adjustment to the amount of the tax charged therein on those profits. In determining such adjustment, due regard shall be had to the other provisions of the Agreement and the competent authorities of the Contracting States shall, if necessary, consult each other.

 

3.         A Contracting State shall not change the profits of an enterprise in the circumstances referred to in paragraph 2 after the expiry of the time limits provided in its national laws. 

 

 

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 beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed;

           a)       10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the

                       beneficial owner is a company which owns at least 10 per

                       cent of the shares of the company paying the dividends;

           b)        15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other

                       cases.

           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 income or profits 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 income or profits 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.

 

 

Last updated: 08.12.2011