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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  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 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 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 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 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 Convention, then the provisions of those Articles  shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

 

 

ARTICLE 8
SHIPPING AND AIR TRANSPORT

 

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  that State.  However, income collectable in the other State with respect to carriage of passengers and income arising from the transport of goods from that other State may be taxed in that other State in accordance with the domestic tax laws of that other State but the tax imposed in that other State shall be reduced by an amount equal to 50 per cent thereof.

 

3.         For the purpose of this Article, income or profits from the operations of ships or aircraft in international traffic include income or profits derived from the rental of ships or aircraft on a full (time or voyage) basis or on a bareboat basis, if such rental activity are incidental to the activities describe in paragraphs 1 and 2.

 

4.         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 paragraph 1 and 2 as income from the operation  of ships or aircraft in international traffic.

 

5.         The provision of this Article shall also apply to income or profits derived 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 may 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   this  Convention  and   the  competent  authorities of the Contracting States shall, if  necessary, consult each other.      

 

 

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.

 

            This paragraph shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of 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 tax, according to the law of that State, on the disposal  of  profits  made by a permanent  establishment  situated therein. But such tax shall not be levied at a rate exceeding the rate provided in paragraph 2 of this Article.

 

 

Last updated: 08.12.2011