Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State. 2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend. 4. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement, Double Taxation Agreement, Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay be taxed in that other Contracting State.
2. However, dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State may also be taxed in that Contracting State according to the laws of that Contracting State, but if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of this paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, resident through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other Contracting 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 Contracting 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 Contracting 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 Contracting State, nor subject the company's ’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 Contracting State.
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Sources: Convention for the Elimination of Double Taxation, Convention for the Elimination of Double Taxation, Convention for the Elimination of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of This paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
32. The term "“dividends" ” as used in this Article means income from shares, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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, resident through a permanent establishment situated therein, 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.
54. 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 ’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.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement, Double Taxation Agreement, Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. (1. ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other Contracting State.
(2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. (3) The provisions of paragraph 1 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. (4) 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.
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Sources: Convention With Respect to Taxes on Income, Convention With Respect to Taxes on Income, Convention With Respect to Taxes on Income
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 the 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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 ’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 such other State.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company company, which is a resident of a Contracting State State, to a resident of the other Contracting State, shall be taxable only in that other Contracting State shall, if the recipient such resident is the beneficial owner of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of This paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
32. The term "“dividends" ” as used in this Article means income from shares, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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.
54. 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
Appears in 4 contracts
Sources: Double Taxation Agreement, Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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. However, if the beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends. This paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid. The provisions of this paragraph shall not limit application of the Additional Tax payable in Chile provided that the First Category Tax is creditable in computing the amount of additional tax.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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) 5 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 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends;
(b) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of these limitations. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
6. The provisions of this Article shall not apply if it was the main purpose of any person concerned with the creation or assignment of the shares or other rights in respect of which the dividend is paid to take advantage of this Article by means of that creation or assignment.
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Sources: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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 which owns at least 10 per cent of the voting stock (or in the case of Russia, if there is no voting stock, at least 10 per cent of the statutory capital) of the company paying the dividends, be taxable only ; and
(b) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in that all other State.
2cases. The provisions of this paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of on the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
6. Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent:
(a) Canada from levying, in addition to the tax on a company which is a resident of Canada, a tax on the earnings of a permanent establishment of a company which is a resident of the Russian Federation but the rate of such tax shall not exceed 10 per cent of such earnings;
(b) the Russian Federation from taxing the remittance of earnings by a permanent establishment situated in the Russian Federation of a company which is a resident of Canada but the rate of tax shall not exceed 10 per cent of such remittances.
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Sources: Income and Capital Tax Treaty, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State one of the States to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay be taxed in that other State.
2. However, such dividends may also be taxed in the 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) 12.5% of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company (other than a partnership) which holds directly at least 10% of the capital of the company paying the dividends, be taxable only ;
(b) 15% of the gross amount of the dividends in that all other State.
2cases. The provisions of This paragraph 1 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 shares, or other rights, not being debt-claims, claims participating in profits, profits as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting Stateone of the States, 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 one of the States 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.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement (Dta), Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement (Dta), Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement (Dta)
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 the 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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 ’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 such other State.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company (other than partnership) which holds directly at least 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends;
(b) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. This paragraph 1 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, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 baseestablishment. In such case 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 ’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.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Convention for the Elimination of Double Taxation, Convention for the Elimination of Double Taxation, Convention for the Elimination of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable taxed only in that other Contracting State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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, 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State 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, company except insofar as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other Contracting 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 Contracting State, nor subject the company's ’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 Contracting State.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. (1. ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a one of the Contracting State States for the purposes of its tax, being dividends to which a resident of the other Contracting State shallis beneficially entitled, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
(2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not affect ) Such dividends may be taxed in the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends are paidis a resident for the purposes of its tax, and according to the law of that State, but the tax so charged shall not exceed 20 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends.
(3. ) The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or and other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item whichlaw, under the laws relating to tax, of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividendresident for the purposes of its tax.
(4. ) The provisions of paragraph 1 paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply if the beneficial owner of person beneficially entitled to the dividends, being a resident of a one of the Contracting StateStates, 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 a case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
(5. Where ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of one of the Contracting States, being dividends to which a Contracting State derives profits or income from person who is not a resident of the other Contracting StateState is beneficially entitled, shall be exempt from tax in 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 . Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in relation to a tax on undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or by any company which is a resident of Australia for the purposes of Australian tax and which is also a resident of Fiji for the purposes of Fiji tax.
(6) Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as preventing one of the Contracting States from imposing, on the income of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State, tax in addition to the taxes referred to in Article 2 in relation to the firstmentioned State which are payable by a company which is a resident of the firstmentioned State, provided that any such additional tax shall not exceed 20 per cent of the amount by which the taxable income of the firstmentioned company of a year of income exceeds the tax payable on that taxable income to the firstmentioned State. Any tax payable to one of the Contracting States on the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State shall be calculated as if that company were not liable to the additional tax referred to in this paragraph and had paid dividends of such other Stateamount that tax equal to the amount of the additional tax would have been payable on the dividends in accordance with paragraph (2).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay be taxed in that other Contracting 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 Contracting State, but, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends. The provisions of this paragraph 1 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, rights not being debt-debt claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subject to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by according to the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws law of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on business has in the other Contracting State 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 with which the holding in respect by virtue of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseconnected. In such case a 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, no tax may be imposed in that other Contracting State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid by the company, company except insofar in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other Contracting State or insofar in so far 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 Contracting State, nor subject or on 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 such other Contracting State.
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Sources: Income and Capital Tax Agreement, Income and Capital Tax Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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 holds at least 10 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends; or
(b) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of these limitations. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, rights participating in profits (not being debt-claims, participating in profits), as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. In such case 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 in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 ’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 such other State.
6. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as preventing a Contracting State from imposing an income tax (referred to as a “branch profits tax”) on the repatriated income of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State in addition to the income tax imposed on the chargeable income of the company; provided that any branch profits tax so imposed shall not exceed 10 per cent of the amount of the repatriated income.
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Sources: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion With Respect to Taxes on Income, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay be taxed in that other Contracting 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 Contracting 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, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of this paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident. In this context, is treated as the profits distributed by a dividendjoint company of a Contracting State to the investors are assimilated to dividends.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 Contracting 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 Contracting 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 Contracting 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 Contracting State, nor subject the company's ’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 that other Contracting State.
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Sources: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends. This paragraph 1 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 assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 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.
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Sources: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. (1. ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a one of the Contracting State States, being dividends to which a resident of the other Contracting State shallis beneficially entitled, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
(2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not affect ) Such dividends may be taxed in the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends are paidis a resident, and according to the law of that State, but the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends.
(3. ) The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or and other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item whichlaw, under the laws relating to tax, of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
(4) In the case of Spain, paragraph (2) of this Article shall not apply to income which under the provisions of the Spanish taxation law relating to transparent companies (Regimen de Transparencia Fiscal) is attributable to shareholders of such companies, whether or not distributed to such shareholders. Such income may be taxed by Spain in accordance with its domestic law as long as it is not subject to the Spanish corporation tax (Impuesto Sobre Sociedades).
(5) The provisions of paragraph 1 (2) shall not apply if the beneficial owner of person beneficially entitled to the dividends, being a resident of a one of the Contracting StateStates, 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 any such case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
5. (6) 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.
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Sources: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, be taxable only in that the other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 1 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, profits even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 the 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Income Tax Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State for the purposes of its tax, being dividends to which a resident of the other Contracting State shallis beneficially entitled, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not affect Those dividends may also be taxed in the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends are paidis a resident for the purposes of its tax, and according to the laws of that State, but the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or and other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item whichlaws, under the laws relating to tax, of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution payment is a resident, is treated as a dividendresident for the purposes of its tax.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of person beneficially entitled to 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 thereinin that other State, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated thereinin that other State, and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such that permanent establishment or fixed base. In such case that case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 1415, as the case may be, shall apply.
5. Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State derives income or profits or income from the other Contracting State, that other State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid by the company, that 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 or income arising in such that other State. This paragraph shall not apply in relation to dividends paid by any company which is a resident of New Zealand for the purposes of New Zealand tax and which is also a resident of Thailand for the purposes of Thai tax.
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Sources: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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 holds at least 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends; or
(b) 20 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the mode of application of these limitations by mutual agreement. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, rights participating in profits (not being debt-claims, participating in profits), as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. In such case 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 in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Income Tax Agreement, Income Tax Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay be taxed in that other Contracting 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 Contracting State, but if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends the tax so charged shall not exceed seven per cent (7 per cent) of the gross amount of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of this paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2, dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall be taxable only in that other Contracting State if the beneficial owner of the dividend is:
(a) the Government of that other Contracting State or any of its institutions; or other entity the capital of which is wholly-owned directly or indirectly by the Government of that other Contracting State; or
(b) a company which is a resident of that other Contracting State whose shares are at least 20% owned directly or indirectly by the Government of that other Contracting State.
4. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares shares, or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
45. The provisions of paragraph 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 Contracting 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.
56. 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, except insofar as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other Contracting 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 Contracting 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 Contracting State.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Double Taxation Agreement, Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay be taxed in that other State.
2. However, such dividends may also be taxed in the Contracting States 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 15% of the gross amount of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of this limitation. This paragraph 1 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, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws law of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, therein or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such a case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall applydividends are taxable in that other Contracting State according to its own law.
5. Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State State, derives profits or income from the other Contracting State, 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.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention to Avoid Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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) 7.5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds directly at least 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends;
(b) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions of this paragraph 1 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, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
Dividends. (1. ) Dividends paid derived from sources within one of the Contracting States by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if may be taxed by both Contracting States.
(2) The rate of tax imposed by one of the Contracting States on dividends derived from sources within that Contracting State by a resident of the other Contracting State shall not exceed-
(a) 25 percent of the gross amount of the dividend; or
(b) When the recipient is the beneficial owner a corporation, 20 percent of the dividendsgross amount of the dividend if during the part of the paying corporation's taxable year which precedes the date of payment of the dividend and during the whole of its prior taxable year (if any), at least 10 percent of the outstanding shares of the voting stock of the paying corporation was owned by the recipient corporation.
(3) Dividends paid by a corporation of one of the Contracting States to a person other than a citizen or resident of the other Contracting State may be taxable taxed by the other Contracting State, but only in if-
(a) Such dividends are treated as income from sources within that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not affect Contracting State and, in the taxation case of the company Philippines, the additional tax described in paragraph (6) has not been paid with respect to the earnings distributed, or
(b) The recipient of the dividends has a permanent establishment or fixed base in the other Contracting State and the holding in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paidpaid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
(4. The provisions of paragraph 1 ) Paragraph (2) shall not apply if the beneficial owner recipient of dividends derived from sources within one of the dividendsContracting States, being a resident of a the other Contracting State, carries on business in the other first-mentioned Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, through a permanent establishment situated therein, 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 a case, the provisions of Article 7 8 (Business Profits) or Article 1415 (Independent personal Services), as the case may be, shall apply.
(5. Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State derives profits or ) The term "dividends" as used in this Convention means income from the shares, mining shares, founders' shares or other Contracting Staterights, that not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the company, except insofar as such dividends are paid to a resident taxation law of that other the State or insofar as the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid corporation making the distribution is effectively connected with a resident.
(6) Nothing in this Convention (except Article 9 (Shipping and Air Transport)) shall be construed as preventing the Philippines from imposing on the earnings of a corporation (other than a Philippine corporation) attributable to a permanent establishment or in the Philippines, a fixed base situated tax in addition to the tax which would be chargeable on the earnings of a Philippine corporation, provided that other Stateany additional tax so imposed shall not exceed 20 percent of the amount of such earning which have not been subjected to such additional tax in previous taxable years. For the purpose of this provision, nor subject the company's undistributed term ''earnings'' means business profits attributable to a permanent establishment in the Philippines in a year and previous years after deducting therefrom all taxes, other than the additional tax referred to herein, imposed on undistributed profits, even if such profits by the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other StatePhilippines.
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Sources: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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 person receiving the dividends is the beneficial owner of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends. The provisions competent authorities of paragraph 1 the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of these limitations. This Paragraph does not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the companies for profits out of which the dividends are paiddistributed.
3. The term "“dividends" ” as used in this Article means income from shares, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and resident. Insofar as Portugal is concerned, the term “dividends” also includes any other item which, under income derived from or paid on the laws basis of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividendprofit-sharing agreement (joint venture).
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, resident through a permanent establishment situated therein, 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 that 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.
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Sources: Income Tax Convention
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only dividends the tax so charged shall not exceed:
(a) 18% of the gross amount of the dividends when they are paid by a company which is a resident of the Republic of the Ivory Coast and which is exempt from tax on its income or which is not subject to that tax at the normal rate;
(b) 15% of the gross amount of the dividends in that all other State.
2cases. The provisions of This paragraph 1 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, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws tax law of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 dividends may be, shall applybe taxed in that other Contracting State in accordance with its law.
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, 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.
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Sources: Tax Treaty
Dividends. (1. ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
(2. The provisions ) However, such dividends may also be taxed in the Contracting State of paragraph 1 which the company paying the dividends is a resident and according to the laws of that State, but:
(a) where the dividends are paid by a company resident of Cyprus to a resident of Malta who is the beneficial owner thereof, the Cyprus tax so charged shall not affect the taxation exceed 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends;
(b) where the dividends are paid by a company in respect which is a resident of Malta to a resident of Cyprus who is the beneficial owner thereof Malta tax on the gross amount of the dividends shall not exceed that chargeable on the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
(3. ) The term "“dividends" ” as used in this Article means income from shares, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting that State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
(4. ) The provisions of paragraph 1 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 a 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, 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 ’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.
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Dividends. (1. ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation of the company dividends and subject to tax in respect of the profits out dividends in the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed:
(a) 5 per cent. of which the gross amount of the dividends are paidif the beneficial owner is a company which controls, directly or indirectly, in the case of the United Kingdom, at least 10 per cent. of the voting power in the company paying the dividends and in the case of the Sultanate of Oman at least 10 per cent. of the authorised capital in the company paying the dividends;
(b) 10 per cent. of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases.
(3. ) The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares shares, or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making paying the distribution dividend is a resident, is treated as a dividenddividend or distribution of a company.
(4. ) The provisions of paragraph 1 paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Article 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 1414 of this Agreement, 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such that other State.
(6) The provisions of this Article shall not apply if it was the main purpose or one of the main purposes of any person concerned with the creation or assignment of the shares or other rights in respect of which the dividend is paid to take advantage of this Article by means of that creation or assignment.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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 the tax so charged shall not exceed: (a) 10% of the gross amount of the dividends if the recipient is a company (excluding partnerships) which owns directly at least 25% of the capital of the company paying the dividends; (b) in all other cases, 15% of the gross amount of the dividends if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 means: (a) dividends on shares including income from shares, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, ; and (b) other income which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated and, for the purpose of taxation in the Federal Republic of Germany, income derived by a sleeping partner ("▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Gesellschafter") from his participation as a dividendsuch and distributions on certificates of an investment fund or investment trust.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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.
54. 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.
5. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State, the profits of the permanent establishment may be subjected to an additional tax in that other State in accordance with its law, but the additional tax so charged shall not exceed 10% of the amount of such profits after deducting therefrom income tax and other taxes on income imposed thereon in that other State.
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Sources: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not affect However, such dividends may also be taxed in the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends are paidis a resident, and according to the laws of that State, but if the beneficial owner of dividends is a resident of the other Contracting State the tax so charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends.
3. The term "“dividends" ” as used in this Article means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 ’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.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only the tax so charged shall not exceed :
(a) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which owns at least ten per cent of the shares of the company paying the dividends;
(b) 20 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in that all other State.
2cases. The provisions of This paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, 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 1415, 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, 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.
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Sources: Agreement for Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which whi ch is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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 Contacting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed:
(a) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds at least 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends; or
(b) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the mode of application of these limitations by mutual agreement. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, rights participating in profits (not being debt-claims, participating in profitsdebt -claims), as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 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 in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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) 5 percent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds directly at least 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends, be taxable only ;
(b) 12 percent of the gross amount of the dividends in that all other State.
2cases. The provisions of This paragraph 1 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 shares, or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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.
6. Where a company, which is a resident of a Contracting State having a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State, derives profits or income from that permanent establishment, any remittances or deemed remittances of such profits or income by the permanent establishment to the company which is a resident of the first-mentioned Contracting State may, notwithstanding any other provisions of the Convention, be taxed in accordance with the law of the other Contracting State, but the rate of tax imposed on such remittance shall not exceed 5 percent.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions However, dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State may also be taxed in that State 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:
(i) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends where those dividends are paid out of income (including gains) derived directly or indirectly from immovable property within the meaning of Article 6 by an investment company which distributes most of this income annually and whose income from such immovable property is exempted from tax;
(ii) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. This paragraph 1 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 shares, or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from any other corporate rights assimilated to item which is treated as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, resident through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such that other State.
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Sources: Double Taxation Convention
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only in that other State.
2the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent. of the gross amount of the dividends where such dividends relate to contributions made after the entry into force of this Agreement. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
31. The term "dividends" dividends " as used in this Article article means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
42. The provisions of paragraph 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, 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 case, the provisions of Article article 7 or Article 14article 15, as the case may be, shall apply.
53. 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, company except insofar in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar so far 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.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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) 5 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) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of these limitations. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-debt claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, resident through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. In such case a 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, company except insofar in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Income Tax Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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 holds at least 15 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends; or
(b) 20 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the mode of application of these limitations by mutual agreement. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, rights participating in profits (not being debt-claims, participating in profits), as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. In such case 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 in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Income Tax Agreement
Dividends. (1. ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State State, being dividends to which a resident of the other Contracting State shallis beneficially entitled, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
(2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not affect ) Such dividends may be taxed in the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends are paidis a resident, and according to the law of that State, but the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends.
(3. ) The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or and other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, income which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
(4. ) The provisions of paragraph 1 paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply if the beneficial owner of person beneficially entitled to 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 any such case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
(5. Where ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State derives profits or income from State, being dividends to which a person who is not a resident of the other Contracting StateState is beneficially entitled, shall be exempt from tax in 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. Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in relation to dividends paid by any company which by reason of paragraph (1) of Article 4 is a resident of Australia and which by reason of that paragraph is also a resident of Korea.
(6) Nothing in this Convention shall be construed as preventing a Contracting State from imposing on the income of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State, nor subject tax in addition to the company's undistributed profits taxes referred to in Article 2 in relation to the first-mentioned Contracting State which are payable by a company which is a resident of the first-mentioned State, provided that any such additional tax shall not exceed 15 per cent of the amount by which the taxable income of the first-mentioned company of a year of income exceeds the tax payable on that taxable income to the first- mentioned State. Any tax payable to a tax Contracting State on undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State shall be calculated as if that company were not liable to the additional tax referred to in this paragraph and had paid dividends of such other Stateamount that tax equal to the amount of that additional tax would have been payable on the dividends in accordance with paragraph (2) of this Article.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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) 5 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) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. This paragraph 1 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, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a one of the Contracting States under the law of that State relating to its tax, being dividends to which a resident of the other Contracting State shallis beneficially entitled, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions Those dividends may be taxed in the first-mentioned Contracting State and according to the law of paragraph 1 that State, but the tax so charged shall not affect the taxation exceed 15% of the company in respect gross amount of the profits out dividends. The competent authorities of which the dividends are paidContracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of this limitation.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or and other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item whichlaw, under the laws relating to tax, of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividendresident under that law.
4. The provisions of paragraph 1 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of person beneficially entitled to the dividends, being a resident of a one of the Contracting StateStates, carries on business in the other Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, through a permanent establishment situated thereinin that other State, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated thereinin that other State, and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such that permanent establishment or fixed base. In such that case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
5. Where Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of one of the Contracting States, being dividends to which a Contracting State derives profits or income from person who is not a resident of the other Contracting StateState is beneficially entitled, shall be exempt from tax in 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 in so far 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 . This paragraph shall not apply in relation to a tax on undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid by any company which is a resident of Australia under the law of Australia relating to its tax which is also a resident of Indonesia under the law of Indonesia relating to its tax.
6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, where a company which is a resident of one of the Contracting states has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting state, the profits of the permanent establishment may be subjected to an additional tax in that other State in accordance with its law, but the additional tax so charged shall not exceed 15% of the amount of such profits after deducting from those profits the tax imposed on them in that other state.
7. The provisions of paragraph 6 of this Article shall not affect the rate of any such additional tax payable under any production sharing contracts and contracts of work (or any other similar contracts) relating to oil and gas or other mineral products negotiated by the undistributed profits consist wholly Government of Indonesia, its instrumentality, its relevant State oil company or partly any other entity thereof with a person who is a resident of profits or income arising in such other StateAustralia.
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Sources: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions if the recipient is a company (excluding partnership) which holds directly at least 25 per cent of paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation capital of the company in respect paying the dividends;
(b) 10 per cent of the profits out gross amount of which the dividends are paidin all other cases.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 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.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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) zero per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds directly at least 10 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends;
(b) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is an individual who holds directly at least 10 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends and who has been a resident of that other Contracting State for a period of 48 months immediately preceding the year within which the dividends are paid;
(c) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, participating in profits, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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) 5% of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company (other than a partnership) which holds directly or indirectly at least 25% of the capital of the company paying the dividends;
(b) 10% of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. This paragraph 1 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, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 baseestablishment. 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.
6. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 5, where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State, having a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State, derives profits or income from that permanent establishment, any remittances of such profits by the permanent establishment to the company resident in the first-mentioned State may be taxed in accordance with the law of the other Contracting State but the rate of tax imposed on such remittances shall not exceed 5 percent.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 the tax so charged shall not affect the taxation exceed 15 per cent of the company in respect gross amount of the profits out of which the dividends are paiddividends.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares shares, or other rights, rights not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting that State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 a case, the provisions of Article 7 ("Business profits") or Article 14, 14 ("Independent personal services") 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 undistributed profits, profits even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Income Tax Treaty
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds at least 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends; or
(b) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the mode of application of these limitations by mutual agreement. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, rights participating in profits (not being debt-claims, participating in profits), as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. In such case 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 in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Income Tax Convention
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 the tax so charged shall not affect the taxation exceed 15 per cent of the company in respect gross amount of the profits out of which the dividends are paiddividends.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares shares, or other rights, rights not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting that State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, dividends being a resident of a Contracting State, 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 a case, the provisions of Article 7 ("Business profits") or Article 14, 14 ("Independent personal services") 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 undistributed profits, profits even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a one of the Contracting States under the law of that State relating to its tax, being dividends to which a resident of the other Contracting State shallis beneficially entitled, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions Those dividends may be taxed in the first-mentioned Contracting State and according to the law of paragraph 1 that State, but the tax so charged shall not affect the taxation exceed 15% of the company in respect gross amount of the profits out dividends. The competent authorities of which the dividends are paidContracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of this limitation.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or and other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item whichlaw, under the laws relating to tax, of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividendresident under that law.
4. The provisions of paragraph 1 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of person beneficially entitled to the dividends, being a resident of a one of the Contracting StateStates, carries on business in the other Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, through a permanent establishment situated thereinin that other State, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated thereinin that other State, and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively effe. ctively connected with such that permanent establishment or fixed base. In such that case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
5. Where Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of one of the Contracting States, being dividends to which a Contracting State derives profits or income from person who is not a resident of the other Contracting StateState is beneficially entitled, shall be exempt from tax in 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 in so far 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 . This paragraph shall not apply in relation to a tax on undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid by any company which is a resident of Australia under the law of Australia relating to its tax which is also a resident of Indonesia under the law of Indonesia relating to its tax.
6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, where a company which is a resident of one of the Contracting states has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting state, the profits of the permanent establishment may be subjected to an additional tax in that other State in accordance with its law, but the additional tax so charged shall not exceed 15% of the amount of such profits after deducting from those profits the tax imposed on them in that other state.
7. The provisions of paragraph 6 of this Article shall not affect the rate of any such additional tax payable under any production sharing contracts and contracts of work (or any other similar contracts) relating to oil and gas or other mineral products negotiated by the undistributed profits consist wholly Government of Indonesia, its instrumentality, its relevant State oil company or partly any other entity thereof with a person who is a resident of profits or income arising in such other StateAustralia.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only ;
(b) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in that all other Statecases.
23. The provisions of paragraph 1 2 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
34. The term "“dividends" ” as used in this Article means income from shares, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, rights participating in profits, as well as income from profits sharing bonds and income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
45. The provisions of paragraph 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.
56. 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.
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Sources: Income Tax Convention
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 dividends the tax so charged shall not affect the taxation exceed:
(a) 10% of the company in respect gross amount of the profits out dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds directly at least 20% of which the capital of the paying company;
(b) 15% of the gross amount of the dividends are paidin all other cases.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 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 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 that other State.
6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State, the profits of the permanent establishment may be subjected to an additional tax in that other State in accordance with its law, but the additional tax so charged shall not exceed 10% of the amount of such profits after deducting therefrom income tax and other taxes on income imposed thereon in that other State.
7. The provisions of paragraph 6 of this Article shall not affect the provisions contained in any production sharing contracts or any other similar contracts relating to oil and gas sector or other mining sector concluded by the Government of Indonesia, its instrumentality, its relevant state oil and gas company or any other entity thereof with a person who is a resident of Poland.
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Sources: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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) 8 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds at least 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends; or
(b) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the mode of application of these limitations by mutual agreement. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, rights participating in profits (not being debt-claims, participating in profits), as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. In such case 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 in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 ’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 such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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 law of that State, but if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 percent of the gross amount of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of these limitations. This paragraph 1 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, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same tax treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, resident through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal professional 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 dividends may be taxed in the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall applyother Contracting State according to its domestic legislation.
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.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner and beneficially owned by that resident of the dividends, other Contracting State shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. In such case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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) 5 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) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of these limitations. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-debt claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, resident through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. In such case a case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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, company except insofar in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. (1. ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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) 5 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 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends;
(b) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions of This paragraph 1 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, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
(4. ) The provisions of paragraph 1 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 baseestablishment. 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 ’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.
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Sources: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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 5 percent of the gross amount of the dividends. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. 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 ’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 such other State.
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Sources: Agreement for the Elimination of Double Taxation With Respect to Taxes on Income
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 the tax so charged shall not affect the taxation exceed 15 percent of the company in respect gross amount of the profits out of which the dividends are paiddividends.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
5. Where Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State derives profits or income from has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State, the profits of the permanent establishment may be subjected to an additional tax in that other State may in accordance with its law, but the additional tax so charged shall not impose any exceed 12.5 percent of the amount of such profits after deducting therefrom income tax and other taxes 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 income imposed thereon in that other State.
6. The rates of tax in paragraph 2 and in paragraph 5 of this Article shall not affect the rate of tax applied in any production sharing contracts or any other similar contracts relating to oil and gas sector or other mining sector concluded by the Government of Indonesia, nor subject its instrumentality, its relevant state oil and gas company or any other entity thereof with a person who is a resident of 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 such other StateRussian Federation.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 the 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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 so far 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, may be taxed in that other State if the recipient said resident is the beneficial owner.
2. 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 10 percent of the gross amount of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of This paragraph 1 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, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same tax treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article 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, resident through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs or has performed 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 cases 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 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 companya company which is not a resident of that State, 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 that other State.
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Sources: Income and Capital Tax Convention
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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 the tax so charged shall not exceed:
(a) 10% of the gross amount of the dividends if the recipient is a company (excluding partnerships) which owns directly at least 25% of the capital of the company paying the dividends;
(b) in all other cases, 15% of the gross amount of the dividends if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 means:
(a) dividends on shares including income from shares, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, ; and
(b) other income which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated and, for the purpose of taxation in the Federal Republic of Germany, income derived by a sleeping partner ("▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Gesellschafter") from his participation as a dividendsuch and distributions on certificates of an investment fund or investment trust.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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.
54. 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.
5. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State, the profits of the permanent establishment may be subjected to an additional tax in that other State in accordance with its law, but the additional tax so charged shall not exceed 10% of the amount of such profits after deducting therefrom income tax and other taxes on income imposed thereon in that other State.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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 dividend is a resident of the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends. This paragraph 1 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 shares, or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, resident through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. 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.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions However, su ch 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:
(a) where the dividends are paid by a company which is a resident of Malta to a resident of South Africa who is the beneficial owner thereof, Malta tax on the gross amount of the dividends shall not exceed that chargeable on the profits out of which the dividends are paid;
(b) where the dividends are paid by a company which is a resident of South Af rica to a resident of Malta who is the beneficial owner thereof, the South African tax so charged shall not exceed 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, rights participating in profits (not being debt-claims, participating in profits), as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 wh ich 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.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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 Contracting State, but if the recipient being the beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 percent of the gross amount of the dividends.
3. The provisions of paragraph 1 2 shall not affect the taxation of the company entity in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
34. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, rights participating in profits, as well as income from bonds or debentures participating in profits and income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws law of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company entity making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
45. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the recipient who is 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
56. Where Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State derives profits or income from has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State, the profit of the permanent establishment may be subjected to an additional tax in that other State may in accordance with its law, but the additional tax so charged shall not impose any exceed 15 percent of the amount of such profits after deducting therefrom income tax and other taxes 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 income imposed thereon in that other State.
7. The provisions of paragraph 6 of this Article shall not affect the provision contained in any production sharing contract and relating to oil and gas sector concluded by the Government of Indonesia, nor subject its instrumentality, its relevant state oil and gas company or any other entity thereof with a person who is a resident of 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 such other Contracting State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds at least 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends; or
(b) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the mode of application of these limitations by mutual agreement. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, rights participating in profits (not being debt-claims, participating in profits), as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. In such case 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 in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 ’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 such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State Stale of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting State, either 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 the 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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 ’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 such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claimsdebtclaims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State Stale of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting State, either 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 the 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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 ’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 such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 dividends the tax so charged shall not affect exceed 15 per cent:
a) in the taxation case of Canada, of the company in respect gross amount of the profits out dividend, and
b) in the case of which Guyana, of the dividends are paidamount of the dividend actually distributed.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 perform 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.
54. Where a company which is a resident of a only one of the Contracting State States 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
5. Nothing in this Convention shall be construed as preventing a Contracting State from imposing on the earnings of a company attributable to a permanent establishment in that State, tax in addition to the tax which would be chargeable on the earnings of a company which is a resident of that State, provided that any additional tax so imposed shall not exceed 15 per cent of the amount of such earnings which have not been subjected to such additional tax in previous taxation years. For the purpose of this provision, the term "earnings" means the profits attributable to a permanent establishment in a Contracting State in a year and previous years after deducting therefrom all taxes, other than the additional tax referred to herein, imposed on such profits by that State.
6. The term "dividends" as used in this Article:
a) in the case of Guyana includes any income which under the tax law of Guyana is treated as a distribution;
b) in the case of Canada includes any income which under the tax law of Canada is treated as a dividend.
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Sources: Income Tax Convention
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State Party to a resident of the other Contracting State shallParty may be taxed in that other Party.
2. However, such dividends may also be taxed in the Contracting Party of which the company paying the dividends is a resident and according to the laws of that Party, but if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other Contracting Party, the tax so charged shall not exceed:
(a) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company (other than a partner-ship) which holds directly at least 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends, be taxable only ;
(b) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in that all other State.
2cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting Parties shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of these limitations. This paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the ofthe profits out of which the dividends are paid.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State Party of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting StateParty, carries on business in the other Contracting State Party of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State Party 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
5. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement where a company which is a resident of a Contracting Party has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting Party, the profits of the permanent establishment may be subjected to an additional tax in that other Party in accordance with its law, but the additional tax so charged shall not exceed 5 per cent of the amount of such profits after deducting therefrom income tax and other taxes on income imposed thereon in that other Party.
6. Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State Party derives profits or income from the other Contracting StateParty, that other State Party 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 Party 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 StateParty, 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 Consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other StateParty.
7. The provisions of this Article shall not apply if it was the main purpose or one of the main purposes ofany person concerned with the creation or assignment of the shares or other rights in respect of which the dividend is paid to take advantage of this Article by means of that creation or assignment.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. However, such dividends may also be taxed in the Contracting State 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) 7.5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the bneneficial owner is a company which holds at least 10 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends; or
(b) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the mode of application of these limitations by mutual agreement. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, rights participating in profits (not being debt-claims, participating in profits), as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 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 in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 ’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 such other State.
6. The provisions of this Article shall not apply if the right giving rise to the dividend was created or assigned mainly for the purpose of taking advantage of this Article and not for bona fide commercial reasons.
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Sources: Income Tax Treaty
Dividends.
1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a 2 resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 the 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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 ’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 such other State.
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Dividends. (1. ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a one of the Contracting State States for the purposes of its tax, being dividends to which a resident of the other Contracting State shallis beneficially entitled, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
(2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not affect ) Such dividends may be taxed in the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends are paidis a resident for the purposes of its tax, and according to the law of that State, but the tax so charged shall not exceed 20 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends.
(3. ) The term "“dividends" as used ” in this Article means income from shares or and other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item whichlaw, under the laws relating to tax, of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividendresident for the purposes of its tax.
(4. ) The provisions of paragraph 1 paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply if the beneficial owner of person beneficially entitled to the dividends, being a resident of a one of the Contracting StateStates, carries on business in the other Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, 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 a case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
(5. Where ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of one of the Contracting States, being dividends to which a Contracting State derives profits or income from person who is not a resident of the other Contracting Statecontracting State is beneficially entitled, shall be exempt from tax in 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 of fixed base situated in that other State, nor subject the company's undistributed profits . Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in relation to a tax on undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or by any company which is a resident of Australia for the purposes of Australian tax and which is also a resident of Fiji for the purposes of Fiji tax.
(6) Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as preventing one of the Contracting States from imposing, on the income of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State, tax in addition to the taxes referred to in Article 2 in relation to the first mentioned State, provided that any such additional tax shall not exceed 20 per cent of the amount by which the taxable income of the first mentioned company of a year of income exceeds the tax payable on that taxable income to the first mentioned State. Any tax payable to one of the Contracting State on the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State shall be calculated as if that company were not liable to the additional tax referred to in this paragraph and had paid dividends of such other Stateamount that tax equal to the amount of the additional tax would have been payable on the dividends in accordance with paragraph (2).
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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 holds at least 15 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends; or
(b) 20 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the mode of application of these limitations by mutual agreement. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, rights participating in profits (not being debt-claims, participating in profits), as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. In such case 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 in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 ’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 such other State.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not affect However, such dividends may also be taxed in the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends are paidis 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 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends.
3. The term "“dividends" ” as used in this Article means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident resident, of a Contracting State, carries on business in the other Contracting State State, of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, through thought 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.the
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. a) 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 15 percent of the gross amount of the dividends.
b) Nevertheless, when a company which is a resident of a Contracting State directly holds at least 25 percent of the capital stock of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State, the dividends paid by the latter company are exempt from tax in the State where the company which distributes them is a resident if the domestic law of that State applicable in such cases so allows and under the conditions established for the exemption by that law.
c) The provisions of sub-paragraphs a) and b) of this paragraph 1 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, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated income--including that paid in the form of interest--which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution payment is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on an industrial or commercial 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.
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Sources: Income and Capital Tax Convention
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds at least 25 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends; or
(b) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the mode of application of these limitations by mutual agreement. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, rights participating in profits (not being debt-claims, participating in profits), as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, resident through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseestablishment. In such case 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 in so far as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar in so far 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Income and Capital Tax Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only the tax so charged shall not exceed: (a) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds directly at least 25 per cent of the capital of the paying company; (b) 20 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in that all other State.
2cases. The provisions of This paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
3. The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of the limitations provided in the preceding paragraph.
4. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means the 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 assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution distributions is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
45. The provisions of paragraph 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 a case, the provisions of Article 7 (Business Profits) or Article 1414 (Independent Personal Services), as the case may be, shall apply.
56. 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.
7. Nothing in this Article shall prevent either Contracting State from imposing, apart from the corporate income tax, a tax on remittances of profits by a branch to its head office, provided that the tax so imposed shall not exceed 20 per cent of the amount remitted.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 dividends the tax so charged shall not affect the taxation exceed 10 percent of the company in respect gross amount of the profits out of which the dividends are paiddividends.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 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.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State one of the States to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay be taxed in that other State.
2. However, such dividends may also be taxed in the 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) 12.5% of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company (other than a partnership) which holds directly at least 10% of the capital of the company paying the dividends, be taxable only ;
(b) 15% of the gross amount of the dividends in that all other State.
2cases. The provisions of This paragraph 1 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 shares, or other rights, not being debt-claims, debt- claims participating in profits, profits as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting Stateone of the States, 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 one of the States 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.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends. This paragraph 1 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-debt claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 1415, 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 ’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.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 the 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 shares, other rights, rights not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 of this Article 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 1414 of this Agreement, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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 that 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 ’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.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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) zero per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds directly at least 10 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends;
(b) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is an individual who holds directly at least 10 per cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends and who has been a resident of that other Contracting State for a period of 48 months immediately preceding the year within which the dividends are paid;
(c) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, participating in profits, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 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 undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable taxed only in that other Contracting State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 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, therein or performs in that other Contracting 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 of fixed base. In such case case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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, company except insofar as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other Contracting 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 Contracting 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 Contracting State.
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Sources: Income Tax Agreement
Dividends. (1. ) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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, be taxable only the tax so charged shall not exceed:
(a) 5 percent of the gross amount of the dividends if the beneficial owner is a company which holds directly at least 25 percent of the share capital of the company paying dividends; (,b) 10 percent of the gross amount of dividends in that all other State.
2cases. The provisions of This paragraph 1 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 shares, or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
(4. ) The provisions of paragraph 1 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 place situated in that other State, nor subject the company's ’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.
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Sources: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not affect However, such dividends may also be taxed in the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends are paidis a resident, and according to the law of that State, but if the beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other Contracting State:
(a) in the case of the Republic of Italy, the tax so charged shall not exceed 15% of the gross amount of the dividends;
(b) in the case of Sri Lanka, the tax so charged shall not exceed 15% of the gross amount of the dividends.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws law of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such a case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall applydividends are taxable in that other Contracting State according to its own law.
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.
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Sources: Convention to Avoid Double Taxation
Dividends. 1. Dividends that are paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to and that are beneficially owned by a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions of However, the dividends referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article may also be taxed in the first Contracting State and according to the laws of that Contracting State, but the tax should not exceed 10% 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 Agreement means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to and includes any income from shares by or from participation in profits in accordance with the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends or income or making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article 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 or performed 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 . That other State cannot subject to tax the company's undistributed profits to a tax on undistributed profits, of this company even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Income Tax Treaty
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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 law of that State, but the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends, if the recipient is a company (excluding partnership) owning at least 10 per cent of the voting stock of the company paying the dividends.
3. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 in this Article shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
34. The term "“dividends" ” as used in this Article means income from shares, jouissance shares or jouissance rights, mining shares, founder’s shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws law of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
45. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner recipient 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, business through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal professional services from a fixed base situated therein, and the holding in respect by virtue of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such case a case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
56. Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State derives derived profits or income from the other Contracting State, that other State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid by the companycompany to persons, 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 ’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.
7. Nothing in this Convention shall be construed as preventing a Contracting State from imposing in accordance with its internal law, a tax apart from the corporate income tax, on remittances of profits by a branch to its head office provided that the tax so imposed shall not exceed 15 per cent of the amount remitted abroad.
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Sources: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a one of the Contracting States under the law of that State relating to its tax, being dividends to which a resident of the other Contracting State shallis beneficially entitled, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions Those dividends may be taxed in the firstmentioned Contracting State and according to the law of paragraph 1 that State, but the tax so charged shall not affect the taxation exceed 15 per cent of the company in respect gross amount of the profits out dividends. The competent authorities of which the dividends are paidContracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of this limitation.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or and other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item whichlaw, under the laws relating to tax, of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividendresident under that law.
4. The provisions of paragraph 1 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of person beneficially entitled to the dividends, being a resident of a one of the Contracting StateStates, carries on business in the other Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, through a permanent establishment situated thereinin that other State, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated thereinin that other State, and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such that permanent establishment or fixed base. In such that case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
5. Where Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of one of the Contracting States, being dividends to which a Contracting State derives profits or income from person who is not a resident of the other Contracting StateState is beneficially entitled, shall be exempt from tax in 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 in so far 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 . This paragraph shall not apply in relation to a tax on undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or by any company which is a resident of Australia under the undistributed law of Australia relating to its tax and which is also a resident of Indonesia under the law of Indonesia relating to its tax.
6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, where a company which is a resident of one of the Contracting States has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State, the profits consist wholly or partly of the permanent establishment may be subjected to an additional tax in that other State in accordance with its law, but the additional tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent of the amount of such profits or income arising after deducting from those profits the tax imposed on them in such that other State.
7. The provisions of paragraph 6 of this Article shall not affect the rate of any such additional tax payable under any production sharing contracts and contracts of work (or any other similar contracts) relating to oil and gas or other mineral products negotiated by the Government of Indonesia, its instrumentality, its relevant State oil company or any other entity thereof with a person who is a resident of Australia.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay be taxed in that other State. 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 is a resident of the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 7.5 percent of the gross amount of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of This paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
32. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or other rightsrights participating in profits, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 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 baseestablishment. In such case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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 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 Undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, shall be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
43. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 the 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 case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
54. 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 ’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 such other State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay 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 15% of the gross amount of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of this limitation. This paragraph 1 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, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, 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, dividends shall applybe taxed in that other Contracting State in accordance with its domestic law.
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.
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Sources: Tax Treaty
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay be taxed in that other Contracting 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 Contracting State, but if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of This paragraph 1 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, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-debt- claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article 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 Contracting 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 1414 of this Agreement, 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 Contracting 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 Contracting 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 Contracting 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 Contracting State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shallmay be taxed in that other Contracting 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 Contracting State, but if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends, be taxable only in that other State.
2. The provisions of This paragraph 1 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, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article 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 Contracting 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 1414 of this Agreement, 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 Contracting 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 Contracting 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 Contracting 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 Contracting State.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other 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 law of that State, but the tax so charged shall not exceed:
(a) 10% of the gross amount of the dividends if the recipient is a company (excluding partnership) which holds directly at least 25% of the capital of the company paying the dividends;
(b) in all other cases, 20% of the gross amount of the dividends. The provisions competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of this limitation. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profitsshares, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation laws law of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 1 paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply if the beneficial owner recipient of the dividends, dividends being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on business has in the other Contracting State 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 with which the holding in respect by virtue of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed baseconnected. In such a case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall applydividends are taxable in that other Contracting State according to its own law.
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 company to persons who are paid to a resident not residents 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 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 such other State.
6. Where a company which is a resident of one of the Contracting States having a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State, derives profits or income from that permanent establishment, any remittances of such profits by the permanent establishment to a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in accordance with the law of the first-mentioned Contracting State, but the rate of tax imposed on such remittances shall not exceed 8%.
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Sources: Convention to Avoid Double Taxation and Prevent Fiscal Evasion
Dividends. [Compare: OECD Model | UN Model]
1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions However, such dividends may also be taxed in the Contracting State of paragraph 1 which the company paying the dividends is a resident, and according to the law of that State, but the tax so charged shall not affect exceed:
(i) 10% of the taxation gross amount of the dividends if the recipient is a company which owns at least 10% of the shares of the company in respect paying the dividends during the period of six months immediately preceding the date of payment of the profits out dividends;
(ii) 15% of which the gross amount of the dividends are paidin all other cases.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares or other rights, not being debt-claimsclaims , participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares or any other item which is deemed to be a dividend or distribution of a company by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws law of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner recipient 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, therein or performs in that other State independent personal professional services from a fixed base situated therein, 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 a case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 1416, 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 company to persons who are paid to a not 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 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 such that other State.
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Sources: Income Tax Treaty
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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 7.5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends. This paragraph 1 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 other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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, 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 baseestablishment. 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 ’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.
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Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only taxed in that other State.
2. The provisions 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 sha l not exceed 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends. This paragraph 1 shall sha l not affect a fect 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 other rights, not being debt-debt claims, participating in profits, as well we l as income from other corporate rights assimilated rights" which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph paragraphs 1 shall and 2 sha l 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 e fectively 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 sha l 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 e fectively 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 who ly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.
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Sources: Double Taxation Agreement
Dividends. 1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxable only 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 a resident of the other Contracting State is the beneficial owner of the dividends the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends. The provisions of this paragraph 1 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of on 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 assimilated which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the taxation laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident and also includes any other item which, under the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, is treated as a dividend.
4. The provisions of paragraph 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 ’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 such other State.
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