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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  use 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 determining  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.

 

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  ascertain  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 of this  Article  shall  preclude that  Contracting Statefrom 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  of 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 of  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 income or 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  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.

 

 

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: 

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

                          beneficial  owner  is  a company  (other than a  partnership) 

                          which holds directly at least 10 per cent of  the capital   of   the  

                          company   paying   the dividends;

             (b)        15  per cent of gross amount of the dividend in all other cases. 

                          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 law 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 in so far 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.

   

 

Last updated: 08.12.2011