Common use of BUSINESS PROFITS Clause in Contracts

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 9 contracts

Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

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BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishmentindependently. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 7 contracts

Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State Party shall be taxable only in that State Party unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State Party through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State Party, but only so much of them as is attributable to: (a) that permanent establishment; or; (b) sales in that other State Party of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or (c) other business activities carried on in that other State Party of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs ; provided that (b) and or (c) shall not apply if where an enterprise is able to demonstrate that the enterprise shows that such sales or business activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishmentwere carried out for reasons other than obtaining treaty benefits. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State Party carries on business in the other Contracting State Party through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State Party be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishmentestablishment or with other enterprises with which it deals. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State Party in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, of amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State Party to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State Party from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No If the information available to the taxation authority of a Contracting Party is inadequate to determine the profits shall to be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for an enterprise, nothing in this Article shall affect the enterpriseapplication of any law of that Contracting Party relating to the determination of the tax liability of a person provided that that law shall be applied in accordance with the principles of this Article, so far as the information available to the taxation authority permits. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 5 contracts

Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or b) , or sales in that other Contracting State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on . It is understood that the profits of an enterprise shall include profits attributable to sales of goods and merchandise referred to in this subparagraph only when the competent authority of the Contracting State in which a permanent establishment of the enterprise is situated considers that the enterprise has entered into an arrangement in relation to the sales of those goods or merchandise to avoid taxation of those profits in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishmentContracting State. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 4 contracts

Samples: Agreement for the Elimination of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Elimination of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Elimination of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 4 contracts

Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. If the information available to the taxation authorities concerned is inadequate to determine the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment, nothing in this paragraph shall affect the application of the law of either State in relation to the liability of the permanent establishment to pay tax on an amount determined by the making of an estimate by the taxation authorities of that State; provided that such estimate shall be made, so far as the information available to the taxation authorities permits, in accordance with the principle stated in this paragraph. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Double Taxation Treaty, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that Contracting State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is directly or indirectly attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through to that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall this paragraph shall, however, not apply if the enterprise shows proves that such sales or the above activities could are not reasonably have been undertaken by that the permanent establishment or have no relation with the permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphsparagraphs 1 to 5, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Double Taxation Agreement, Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that Contracting State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes purpose of the preceding paragraphsparagraphs 1 to 5, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately separatedly in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Double Taxation Agreement, 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 and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion With Respect to Taxes on Income

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishmentindependently. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) a. that permanent establishment; or; b) b. sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) c. other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities activiting under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishmentestablihment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. This provision shall apply subject to limitations under domestic law. 4. Nothing in this Article shall affect the application of any law of a Contracting State relating to the determination of the tax liability of a person in cases where the information available to the competent authority of that State is inadequate to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment, insofar as the information available to the competent authority permits, that law shall be applied consistently with the principles of this Article. 5. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that such Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. The expenses to be allowed as deductions by a Contracting State shall include only expenses that are deductible under the domestic laws of that State. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The business profits of an enterprise a resident of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business that resident has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated thereinState. If In this case the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise resident from such activities may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to Where a resident of one of the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of two Contracting States has a Contracting State carries on business permanent establishment in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated thereinState, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that the permanent establishment the business profits which it might would reasonably be expected to make if have been derived by it were a distinct and separate enterprise an independent entity engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise resident of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. Notwithstanding other provisions, the business profits derived by an enterprise of a Contracting State from exportation or delivery of merchandise, machinery or equipment or from rendering of services, including planning, project, construction or research activities as well as technical services exercised in the first- mentioned State, to a resident of the other Contracting State or to a permanent establishment of an enterprise of the first-mentioned Contracting State situated in the other Contracting State shall not be taxed in that other Contracting State. Where contracts include other activities carried on in the other Contracting State income from such activities may, subject to the provisions of Article 5 and paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 of Article 7, be taxed in the other Contracting State. 4. The term β€œbusiness profits” includes, but is not limited to income derived from manufacturing, mercantile, banking, insurance, from the operation of inland transportation and the furnishing of services. Such a term does not include the performance of independent personal services by an individual. 5. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary However, no such deduction shall be allowed in a Contracting State to determine respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on to the basis of an apportionment of the total profits head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of income from debt-claims with regard to its various partsmoneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, nothing no account shall be taken, in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the determination of the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment by reason to the head office of the mere purchase enterprise or any of its other offices, by that permanent establishment way of goods royalties, fees or merchandise other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of income from debt-claims with regard to moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods directly or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through indirectly to that permanent establishment. The provisions words "directly or indirectly" mean, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if this article, that where a permanent establishment takes an active part in negotiating, concluding or fulfilling contracts entered into by the enterprise, then notwithstanding that other parts of the enterprise shows have also participated in those transactions, there shall be attributed to the permanent establishment that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by proportion of profits of the enterprise arising out of those contracts as the contribution of the permanent establishment to those transactions bears to that permanent establishmentof the enterprise as a whole. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhereelsewhere in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the tax laws of that State. 4. Insofar In so far as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason reasons of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Double Taxation Agreement, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or from other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected affected, through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid or charged (other than reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of: a) royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights; b) commission for specific services performed or for management; and c) interest on money lent to the permanent establishment, except in the case of banking institutions. 5. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 56. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article. 9. The term β€œprofits” as used in this Article includes the profits derived by any partner from his participation in a partnership and, in the case of Austria, from a participation in a sleeping partnership (Stille Gesellschaft) created under Austrian law.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishmentindependently. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion, Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: to (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or or (c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions deduction expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere, which are allowed under the provisions of the domestic law of the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 75. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: to (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or or (c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that such permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make derive if it were a distinct and separate an independent enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently at arm's length with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. (a) In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere, subject to the limitations of the taxation laws of that State. Provided that where the law of the State in which the permanent establishment is situated imposes a restriction on the amount of the executive and general administrative expenses which may be allowed, and that restriction is relaxed or overridden by any Convention or Agreement between that State and a third State which is a member of the OECD which enters into force after the date of entry into force of this Agreement, the competent authority of that State shall notify competent authority of the other Contracting State of the term of the corresponding paragraph in the Convention or Agreement with that third State immediately after the entry into force of that Convention or Agreement and, if the competent authority of the other Contracting State so requests, the provisions of this sub-paragraph shall be amended by protocol to reflect such terms. (b) However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission or other charges for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission or other charges for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 or paragraph 3 shall preclude that such Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprisepurpose of exports to the enterprise of which it is the permanent establishment. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Double Taxation Agreement, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion With Respect to Taxes on Income

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits profit of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is in attributable to: a) a. that permanent establishment; or; b) b. sales in to that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) c. other business activities activites carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such similar sales or activities could referred to in those sub-paragraphs are not reasonably have been undertaken by related to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Like wise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (other than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that prectude such Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be apportionment such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes purpose of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: (a) that permanent establishment; or; (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or (c) other business activities (other than activities referred to in paragraph 3 of Article 5) carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected carried on through that permanent establishment. The However, the provisions of sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) of this paragraph shall not apply if the enterprise shows proves that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that the permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere, which are allowed under the provisions of the domestic law of the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated. The application of the provisions of the domestic law shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this paragraph. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or except in the case of a banking enterprise by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphsparagraphs 1 to 5, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) a. that permanent establishment; or b) b. sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) c. other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs subparagraphs (b) and (c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other simlar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of banking enterprise by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Nothing in this Article shall affect the application of any law of a Contracting State relating to the determination of the tax liability of a person in cases where the information available to the competent authority of that State is inadequate to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment, provided that such law shall be applied, so far as the information available to the competent authority permits, consistently with the principles of this Article. 5. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 56. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles Article of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Double Taxation Agreement, Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs subparagraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that Contracting State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only on so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or; b) sales in that other Contracting State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other Contracting State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 33 of this article, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere, which are allowed under the provisions of the domestic law of the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 of this article shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Articlearticle. 5. Nothing in this article shall affect the application of any law of a Contracting State relating to the determination of the tax liability of a person, in cases where the information available to the competent authority of that Contracting State is inadequate for the determination of the profits attributable to a permanent establishment of that person in that Contracting State, provided that the law shall be applied, so far as the information available to the competent authority permits, consistently with the principles of this article. 6. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphsparagraphs of this article, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Articlearticle.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: 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

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The income or profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the income or profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or; b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs subparagraphs (b) and (c) shall not apply only if it can be shown that the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could were not reasonably have been undertaken carried out by that the permanent establishmentestablishment in order to avoid tax in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the income or profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate independent enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishmentconditions. 3. In determining the income or profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including a reasonable allocation or apportionment of executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the income or profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various partsparts or, in the case of a person who does not claim taxation on the basis of the actual net profits of the permanent establishment, on the basis of a certain reasonable percentage of the gross receipts of the permanent establishment, nothing in paragraph 2 of this Article shall preclude that Contracting such State from determining the income or profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customarya method. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 5. No income or profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the income or profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where income or profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article. 8. For the purposes of the Convention, the term "business profits" means income derived from any trade or business, including profits from the rental of ships, aircraft and containers (including trailers, barges and related equipment for the transport or containers), if such profits are not incidental to income from the operation of ships or aircraft in international traffic. 9. In applying paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, paragraph 5 of Article 10 (Dividends), paragraph 5 of Article 11 (Interest), paragraph 4 of Article 12 (Royalties), paragraph 1(a) of Article 15 (Independent Personal Services) and paragraph 2 of Article 24 (other Income), any income attributable to a permanent establishment or fixed base during its existence is taxable in the Contracting State in which such permanent establishment or fixed base is situated, even if the payments are deferred until such permanent establishment or fixed base has ceased to exist.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the two States shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that establishment or are derived within such other State from sales of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or from other business activities carried on in that other State transactions of the same or similar kind as those effected effected, through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the two States carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State one of the two States to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Tax Treaty, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the two States shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that establishment or are derived within such other State from sales of goods or merchandise of the same kind as within such other State from sales of goods or similar merchandise of the same kinds as those sold, or from other business transaction of the same kind as those sold effected, through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting one of the two State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes purpose of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State one of the two States to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, shall however be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes purpose of the preceding paragraphsparagraph, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles Article of this ConventionAgreement, then them the provisions of those Articles Article shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Tax Treaty, Tax Treaty

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that Contracting State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or b) establishment or are derived within such other Contracting State from sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or from other business activities carried on in that other State transactions of the same or similar kind as those effected effected, through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise enterprises engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishmentHowever, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in this paragraph 2 shall preclude that such Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 3. In the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3, no deductions shall be allowed in respect of amounts paid or payable (other than reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of an enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of: a) royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights; b) commission for specific services performed of for management; and c) interest on money lent to the permanent establishment except in the case of a banking institution. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment establishment, shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then than the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods directly or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through indirectly to that permanent establishment. The provisions words β€œdirectly or indirectly” mean, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if this Article, that where a permanent establishment takes an active part in negotiating, concluding or fulfilling contracts entered into by the enterprise, then notwithstanding that other parts of the enterprise shows have also participated in those transactions, there shall be attributed to the permanent establishment that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by proportion of profits of the enterprise arising out of those contracts as the contribution of the permanent establishment to those transactions bears to that permanent establishmentof the enterprise as a whole. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhereelsewhere in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the tax laws of that Contracting State. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation, Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods directly or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through indirectly to that permanent establishment. The provisions words β€œdirectly or indirectly” mean, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if this Article, that where a permanent establishment takes an active part in negotiating, concluding or fulfilling contracts entered into by the enterprise, then notwithstanding that other parts of the enterprise shows have also participated in those transactions, there shall be attributed to the permanent establishment that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by proportion of profits of the enterprise arising out of those contracts as the contribution of the permanent establishment to those transactions bears to that permanent establishmentof the enterprise as a whole. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhereelsewhere in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the tax laws of that Contracting State. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason reasons of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes purpose of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.. Article 8

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Income Tax Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) a. that permanent establishment; or; b) b. sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) c. other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The However, the provisions of sub-paragraphs letters (b) and (c) of this paragraph shall not apply if the enterprise shows proves that such sales sale or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that are totally independent with the business carried on through the permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of banking enterprise by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Nothing in this Article shall affect the application of any law of a Contracting State relating to the determination of the tax liability of a person in cases where the information available to the competent authority of that State is inadequate to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment, provided that such law shall be applied, so far as the information available to the competent authority permits, consistently with the principles of this Article. 5. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is are attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or. b) sales 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, where an enterprise of a Contracting State which has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State carries on business activities in that other State of goods or merchandise otherwise than through the permanent establishment, of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other the business activities carried on in that other State of by the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions , then the profits of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if such activities may be attributable to the permanent establishment unless the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been reasonably undertaken by that the permanent establishment. 23. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 34, where an enterprise of a Contracting Contract- ing State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 34. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 45. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 3 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 56. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is are attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or. b) sales 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, where an enterprise of a Contracting State which has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State carries on business activities in that other State of goods or merchandise otherwise than through the permanent establishment, of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other the business activities carried on in that other State of by the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions , then the profits of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if such activities may be attributable to the permanent establishment unless the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been reasonably undertaken by that the permanent establishment. 23. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 34, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 34. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case o f a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards the reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way o f royalties, fees or other sim ilar payments in return for the use o f patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or except in the case of a banking enterprise by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 45. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 3 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 56. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on or has carried on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on or has carried on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; , or b) sales the sale in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same an identical or similar kind as those type to that sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment... 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the right to the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commissions, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Income Tax Convention

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the States shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: to (a) that permanent establishment; or , to (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or establishment or to (c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the States carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State one of the States to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary.. FBR, Government of Pakistan 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Income Tax Convention

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on or has carried on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is are attributable to:to - (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in within that other Contracting State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or from other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected affected, through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions deduction expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts paid or charged (other than reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of: (a) royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights; (b) commission for specific services performed or for management; and (c) interest on money lent to the permanent establishment, except in the case of a banking institution. 6. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions provision of this Article.

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Samples: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but buy only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, establishment there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment appointment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes purpose of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: to that (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or or (c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment be (a) In the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise determination of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishmentestablishment situated in Qatar , there shall be allowed as deductions deduction expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in Qatar or elsewhere, which are allowed under the State provisions of the domestic law of Qatar . (b) In determining the profits of a permanent establishment situated in Sri Lanka, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment is situated including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in Sri Lanka or elsewhere. However, no such head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Insofar In so far as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article.in 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: to (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or or (c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that such permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make derive if it were a distinct and separate an independent enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently at arm's length with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. a. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere, subject to the limitations of the taxation laws of that State: Provided that where the law of the State in which the permanent establishment is situated imposes a restriction on the amount of the executive and general administrative expenses which may be allowed, and that restriction is relaxed or overridden by any Convention or Agreement between that State and a third State which is a member of the OECD which enters into force after the date of entry into force of this Agreement, the competent authority of that State shall notify the competent authority of the other Contracting State of the terms of the corresponding paragraph in the Convention or Agreement with that third State immediately after the entry into force of that Convention or Agreement and, if the competent authority of the other Contracting State so requests, the provisions of this sub-paragraph shall be amended by protocol to reflect such terms. b. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission or other charges for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission or other charges for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Insofar In so far as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 or paragraph 3 shall preclude that such Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Articlearticle. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprisepurpose of export to the enterprise of which it is the permanent establishment. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Articlearticle.

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Samples: Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the States shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: to (a) that permanent establishment; or , to (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or establishment or to (c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the States carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State one of the States to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The business profits of an enterprise a resident of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business that resident has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated thereinState. If In this case the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise resident from such activities may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to Where a resident of one of the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of two Contracting States has a Contracting State carries on business permanent establishment in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated thereinState, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that the permanent establishment the business profits which it might would reasonably be expected to make if have been derived by it were a distinct and separate enterprise an independent entity engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise resident of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. Notwithstanding other provisions, the business profits derived by an enterprise of a Contracting State from exportation or delivery of merchandise, machinery or equipment or from rendering of services, including planning, project, construction or research activities as well as technical services exercised in the first-mentioned State, to a resident of the other Contracting State or to a permanent establishment of an enterprise of the first-mentioned Contracting State situated in the other Contracting State shall not be taxed in that other Contracting State. Where contracts include other activities carried on in the other Contracting State income from such activities may, subject to the provisions of Article 5 and paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 of Article 7, be taxed in the other Contracting State. 4. The term β€œbusiness profits” includes, but is not limited to income derived from manufacturing, mercantile, banking, insurance, from the operation of inland transportation and the furnishing of services. Such a term does not include the performance of independent personal services by an individual. 5. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary However, no such deduction shall be allowed in a Contracting State to determine respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on to the basis of an apportionment of the total profits head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of income from debt-claims with regard to its various partsmoneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, nothing no account shall be taken, in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the determination of the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment by reason to the head office of the mere purchase enterprise or any of its other offices, by that permanent establishment way of goods royalties, fees or merchandise other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of income from debt-claims with regard to moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may also be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods directly or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through indirectly to that permanent establishment. The provisions words "directly or indirectly" mean, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if this Article, that where a permanent establishment takes an active part in negotiating, concluding or fulfilling contracts entered into by the enterprise, then notwithstanding that other parts of the enterprise shows have also participated in those transactions, there shall be attributed to the permanent establishment that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by proportion of profits of the enterprise arising out of those contracts as the contribution of the permanent establishment to those transactions bears to that permanent establishmentof the enterprise as a whole. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhereelsewhere in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the tax laws of that State. 4. Nothing in this Article shall affect the application of any law of a Contracting State relating to the determination of the tax liability of a person in cases where information is not available to the competent authority of that State in order to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment, provided that law shall be applied consistently with the principles of this Article. 5. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 56. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a one of the Contracting State States shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in within that other Contracting State of goods or merchandise of the same or a similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or other business activities carried on in within that other State of the same or a similar kind as those effected carried on, through that permanent establishment. The provisions , if, on the basis of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows information available to the competent authority of that such other State, it may reasonably be concluded that those sales or business activities could would not reasonably have been undertaken by made or carried on but for the existence of that permanent establishmentestablishment or the continued provision by it of goods or services. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a one of the Contracting State States carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated thereinin that other State, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishmentestablishment or with other enterprises with which it deals. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses of the enterprise, being expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment (including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred) and which would be deductible if the permanent establishment were an independent entity which paid those expenses, whether incurred in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 65. For Nothing in this Article shall affect the purposes application of any law of one of the preceding paragraphs, Contracting States relating to the determination of the tax liability of a person in cases where the information available to the competent authority of that State is inadequate to determine the profits to be attributed to the a permanent establishment establishment, provided that that law shall be determined by applied, so far as the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason information available to the contrarycompetent authority permits, consistently with the principles of this Article. 76. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article. 7. Nothing in this Article shall affect the operation of any law of one of the Contracting States relating to tax imposed on profits from insurance with nonresidents provided that if the relevant law in force in either Contracting State at the date of signature of this Agreement is varied (otherwise than in minor respects so as not to affect its general character) the Contracting States shall consult with each other with a view to agreeing to any amendment of this paragraph that may be appropriate.

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Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that Contracting State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is directly or indirectly attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through to that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall this paragraph shall, however, not apply if the enterprise shows proves that such sales or the above activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that the permanent establishment or have no relation with the permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. Insofar as the tax law of a Contracting State provides with respect to a specific business activity that the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment are to be determined on the basis of a deemed profit, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from applying those provisions of its law, provided that the result is in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 4. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions deduction expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be elsewhere in accordance with the principles contained in this Articleprovisions of tax law of that Contracting State. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphsparagraphs 1 to 5, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Agreement for Avoidance of Double Taxation of Income

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in within that other Contracting State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or from other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected effected, through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. However, insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in this paragraph shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles embodied in this Article. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3, no deduction shall be allowed in a Contracting State to determine respect of amounts paid or charged (other than reimbursement of actual expenses) by the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on to the basis of an apportionment of the total profits head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of: a) royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or others rights; b) commission for specific services performed or for management; and c) interest on money lent to its various partsthe permanent establishment, nothing except in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method case of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Articlebanking institution. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes purpose of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishmentState. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, profits derived by an enterprise of a Contracting State from the activity of granting insurance or re-insurance covering property situated in the other Contracting State or persons which are residents of that other State, at the time of the conclusion of the insurance contract, may be taxed in that other State, whether or not the enterprise carries on its activity in that other State through a permanent establishment situated therein. However, in such case, the tax charged in that other State shall not exceed 2.5 per cent of the gross amount of the premium. 8. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on or has carried on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in within that other Contracting State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or from other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected affected, through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. However, insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in this paragraph shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles embodied in this Article. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent and actually provided to the permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees of other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent and actually provided to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 65. For the purposes purpose of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 76. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The business profits of an enterprise a resident of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business that resident has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated thereinState. If In this case the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise resident from such activities may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to Where a resident of one of the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of two Contracting States has a Contracting State carries on business permanent establishment in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated thereinState, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that the permanent establishment the business profits which it might would reasonably be expected to make if have been derived by it were a distinct and separate enterprise an independent entity engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise resident of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. Notwithstanding other provisions, the business profits derived by an enterprise of a Contracting State from exportation or delivery of merchandise, machinery or equipment or from rendering of services, including planning, project, construction or research activities as well as technical services exercised in the first-mentioned State, to a resident of the other Contracting State or to a permanent establishment of an enterprise of the first-mentioned Contracting State situated in the other Contracting State shall not be taxed in that other Contracting State. Where contracts include other activities carried on in the other Contracting State income from such activities may, subject to the provisions of Article 5 and paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 of Article 7, be taxed in the other Contracting State. 4. The term "business profits" includes, but is not limited to income derived from manufacturing, mercantile, banking, insurance, from the operation of inland transportation and the furnishing of services. Such a term does not include the performance of independent personal services by an individual. 5. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary However, no such deduction shall be allowed in a Contracting State to determine respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on to the basis of an apportionment of the total profits head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of income from debt-claims with regard to its various partsmoneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, nothing no account shall be taken, in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the determination of the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment by reason to the head office of the mere purchase enterprise or any of its other offices, by that permanent establishment way of goods royalties, fees or merchandise other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of income from debt-claims with regard to moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is are attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or. b) sales 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, where an enterprise of a Contracting State which has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State carries on business activities in that other State of goods or merchandise otherwise than through the permanent establishment, of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other the business activities carried on in that other State of by the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions , then the profits of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if such activities may be attributable to the permanent establishment unless the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been reasonably undertaken by that the permanent establishment. 23. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 34, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 34. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 45. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 3 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 56. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or; b) sales in ifi that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shallshall , however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the States shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the States carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar In so far as it has been customary in a Contracting State one of the States to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Articlearticle. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Articlearticle.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods directly or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through indirectly to that permanent establishment. The provisions words ―directly or indirectlyβ€– mean, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if this Article, that where a permanent establishment takes an active part in negotiating, concluding or fulfilling contracts entered into by the enterprise, then notwithstanding that other parts of the enterprise shows have also participated in those transactions, there shall be attributed to the permanent establishment that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by proportion of profits of the enterprise arising out of those contracts as the contribution of the permanent establishment to those transactions bears to that permanent establishmentof the enterprise as a whole. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhereelsewhere in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the tax laws of that Contracting State. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason reasons of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods directly or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through indirectly to that permanent establishment. The provisions words "directly or indirectly" mean, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if this Article, that where a permanent establishment takes an active part in negotiating, concluding or fulfilling contracts entered into by the enterprise, then notwithstanding that other parts of the enterprise shows have also participated in those transactions, there shall be attributed to the permanent establishment that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by proportion of profits of the enterprise arising out of those contracts as the contribution of the permanent establishment to those transactions bears to that permanent establishmentof the enterprise as a whole. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhereelsewhere in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the tax laws of that State. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in the paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The , the method of apportionment adopted shall, shall however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Agreement for Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that Contracting State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or b) establishment or are derived within such other Contracting State from sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or from other business activities carried on in that other State transactions of the same or similar kind as those effected effected, through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might right be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise enterprises engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishmentHowever, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to t its various parts, nothing in this paragraph 2 shall preclude that such Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Articlearticle. 3. In the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts paid or payable other than reimbursement of actual expenses by the permanent establishment to the head office of an enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of: (a) royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights; (b) commission for specific services performed or for management, and (c) interest on money lent to the permanent establishment, except in the case of a banking institution. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment establishment, shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Double Taxation Agreement

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BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes purpose of the permanent establishment, including actual executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated concerned or elsewhere. 4. Insofar In so far as it has been customary customary, in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Articlearticle. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 6. The provisions of the preceding paragraphs as well as those of article 5 shall also apply to the shares of a partner in the profits of an enterprise constituted in Tunisia in the form of a β€œde facto company” (societe de fait) or in the form of β€œspecial partnership” (association en participation) and in the Federal Republic of Germany in the form of a β€œPersonengesellschaft”. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Articlearticle.

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Samples: Income and Capital Tax Convention

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the States shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the States carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar In so far as it has been customary in a Contracting State one of the States to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may also be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) a. that permanent establishment; or; b) b. sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) c. other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate independent enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing acting wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions deduction expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Articleprovisions of and subject to the limitations of the taxation laws of that State. 54. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase of goods or merchandise by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 65. For the purposes purpose of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is are good and sufficient reason reasons to the contrary. 76. Where the profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting one State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the States carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State one of the States to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise ente rprise of a one of the Contracting State States shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the th e profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State State, but only so much of them as is attributable to:to - a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in within that other Contracting State of goods or merchandise of the same or a similar kind as those sold being sold, or other business activities of the same or a similar kind as those being carried on through that permanent establishment; or c) other establishment if the sale or the business activities had been made or carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through way with a view to avoiding taxation in that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishmentot her State. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which w hich it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative administrat ive expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted a dopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts paid or charged (other than reimburs ement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of: a) royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights; b) commission for specific services performed or for management; and c) interest or money lent to the permanent establishment, except in the case of a banking institution. 6. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent perma nent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient suffic ient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: to (a) that permanent establishmentestablishment ; or (b) sales in that the other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishmentestablishment ; or or (c) other business activities carried on in that the other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate independent enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently at arm's length with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3establishment and other enterprises controlling, controlled by or subject to the same common control as that enterprise. In determining any case where the correct amount of profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed attributable to a permanent establishment on is incapable of determination or the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various partsdetermination thereof presents exceptional difficulties, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits attributable to be taxed by such an apportionment as the permanent establishment may be customaryestimated on a reasonable basis. The method of apportionment estimate adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 53. In the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including a reasonable allocation of executive and general administrative expenses, research and development expenses, interest, and other expenses incurred for the purposes of the enterprise as a whole (or the part thereof which includes the permanent establishment), whether incurred in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere, in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the taxation laws of that State. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents, know-how or other rights, or by way of commission or other charges for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprises, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than toward reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents, know-how or other rights, or by way of commission or other charges for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 65. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphsthis Convention, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment as provided in paragraph 1(a) of this Article shall include only the profits derived from the assets and activities of the permanent establishment and shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 76. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this the Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article. 7. For the purposes of the Convention, the term "business profits" means income derived from any trade or business including income from the furnishing of services other than included services as defined in Article 12 (Royalties and Fees for Included Services) and including income from the rental of tangible personal property other than property described in paragraph 3(b) of Article 12 (Royalties and Fees for Included Services).

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Samples: Agreement for Avoidance of Double Taxation of Income

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods directly or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through indirectly to that permanent establishment. The provisions words β€œdirectly or indirectly” mean, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if this Article, that where a permanent establishment takes an active part in negotiating, concluding or fulfilling contracts entered into by the enterprise, then notwithstanding that other parts of the enterprise shows have also participated in those transactions, there shall be attributed to the permanent establishment that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by proportion of profits of the enterprise arising out of those contracts as the contribution of the permanent establishment to those transactions bears to that permanent establishmentof the enterprise as a whole. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhereelsewhere in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the tax laws of that State. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason reasons of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: : a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhereelse-where. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed trued by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles principals contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt healt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: to (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or or (c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment far is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 4. In the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expense which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere as are in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the taxation laws of that State. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents, know-how or other rights, or by way of commission or other charges, for specific services performed or for management, or except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents, know-how or other rights, or by way of commission or other charges for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprisepurpose of export to the enterprise of which it is the permanent establishment. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles Article of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of derived in a Contracting State by an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State may be taxed in the first-mentioned State only if it is derived through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but therein and only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State to the activity of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 33 of this Article, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise enterprise, engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 of this Article shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year year, unless there is a good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) a. that permanent establishment; or b) b. sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) c. other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such similar sales or activities could referred to in those sub-paragraphs are not reasonably have been undertaken by related to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, incurred whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, profits derived by an enterprise of a Contracting State to determine from the profits to activity of granting insurance covering property situated in the other Contracting State or persons which are residents of that other State, at the time of the conclusion of the insurance contract, may be attributed to taxed in that other State, whether or not the enterprise carries on its activity in that other State through a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customarysituated therein or otherwise. The method same applies to reinsurance, but only where reinsurance premiums are paid by an insurance enterprise which is a resident of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Articleother State. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 33 of this Article, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment (including a reasonable allocation of executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, ) and which would be deductible if the permanent establishment were an independent entity which paid those expenses whether incurred in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 65. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphsparagraphs of this Article, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 76. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State Party shall be taxable only in that State Party unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State Party through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State Party, but only so much of them as is attributable to: (a) that permanent establishment; or; (b) sales in that other State Party of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or (c) other business activities carried on in that other State Party of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs , provided that (b) and or (c) shall not apply if where an enterprise is able to demonstrate that the enterprise shows that such sales or business activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishmentwere carried out for reasons other than obtaining benefits under this Agreement. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State PaIty carries on business in the other Contracting State Party through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State Party be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State Party in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (other than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case ofa banking enterprise, by way of interest on money lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged, (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of banking enterprise, by way of interest on money lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State Party to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, or on the basis of such other method as may be prescribed by the laws of that Party nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State Party from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The or other method; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere more purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Agreement Between the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion With Respect to Taxes on Income

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is are attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. If the information available to the taxation authorities concerned is inadequate to determine the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment, nothing in this paragraph shall affect the application of the law of either State in relation to the liability of the permanent establishment to pay tax on an amount determined by the making of an estimate by the taxation authorities of that State; provided that such estimate shall be made, so far as the information available to the taxation authorities permits, in accordance with the principle stated in this paragraph. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Double Tax Treaty

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) 1. that permanent establishment; or; b) 2. sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) 3. other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such similar sales or activities could referred to in those sub-paragraphs are not reasonably have been undertaken by related to that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year year, unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: (a) that permanent establishment; or; (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or (c) other business activities (other than activities referred to in paragraph 3 of Article 5) carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected carried on through that permanent establishment. The However, the provisions of sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) of this paragraph shall not apply if the enterprise shows proves that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that the permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment.. FBR, Government of Pakistan 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere, which are allowed under the provisions of the domestic law of the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated. The application of the provisions of the domestic law shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this paragraph. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphsparagraphs 1 to 5, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Income Tax Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State Party shall be taxable only in that State Party unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State Party through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State Party, but only so much of them as is attributable to: (a) that permanent establishment; or; (b) sales in that other State Party of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or (c) other business activities carried on in that other State Party of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs , provided that (b) and or (c) shall not apply if where an enterprise is able to demonstrate that the enterprise shows that such sales or business activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishmentwere carried out for reasons other than obtaining benefits under this Agreement. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State Party carries on business in the other Contracting State Party through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State Party be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State Party in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (other than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on money lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged, (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of banking enterprise, by way of interest on money lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State Party to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, or on the basis of such other method as may be prescribed by the laws of that Party, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State Party from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The or other method; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods directly or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through indirectly to that permanent establishment. The provisions words "directly or indirectly" mean, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if this article, that where a permanent establishment takes an active part in negotiating, concluding or fulfilling contracts entered into by the enterprise, then notwithstanding that other parts of the enterprise shows have also participated in those transactions, there shall be attributed to the permanent establishment that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by proportion of profits of the enterprise arising out of those contracts as the contribution of the permanent establishment to those transactions bears to that permanent establishmentof the enterprise as a whole. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere, in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the tax laws of that State. 4. Insofar In so far as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The , the method of apportionment adopted shall, shall however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Articlearticle. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Articlearticle.

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Samples: Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a one of the Contracting State States shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in within that other Contracting State of goods or merchandise of the same or a similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or other business activities carried on in within that other State of the same or a similar kind as those effected carried on, through that permanent establishment. The provisions , if, on the basis of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows information available to the competent authority of that such other State, it may reasonably be concluded that those sales or business activities could would not reasonably have been undertaken by made or carried on but for the existence of that permanent establishmentestablishment or the continued provision by it of goods or services. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a one of the Contracting State States carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishmentestablishment or with other enterprises with which it deals. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses of the enterprise, being expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment (including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred) and which would be deductible if the permanent establishment were an independent entity which paid those expenses, whether incurred in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 65. For Nothing in this Article shall affect the purposes application of any law of a Contracting State relating to the determination of the preceding paragraphs, tax liability of a person in cases where the information available to the competent authority of that State is inadequate to determine the profits to be attributed to the a permanent establishment establishment, provided that that law shall be determined by applied, so far as the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason information available to the contrarycompetent authority permits, consistently with the principles of this Article. 76. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article. 7. Nothing in this Article shall affect the operation of: (a) any law of a Contracting State relating to tax imposed on profits from insurance with non-residents; or (b) the law of Papua New Guinea relating to: (i) the specific gains tax upon taxable specific gains; or (ii) the taxation of income derived by a foreign contractor from a prescribed contract within the meaning of that law, where, in accordance with this Agreement, that contractor is a resident of Australia with a permanent establishment in Papua New Guinea, provided that if the relevant law in force in either Contracting State or in Papua New Guinea, as the case may be, at the date of signature of this Agreement is varied (otherwise than in minor respects so as not to affect its general character) the Contracting States shall consult with each other with a view to agreeing to any amendment of this paragraph that may be appropriate.

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Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or (c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 30. In Xx determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 50. No Xx profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on or has carried on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State State, but only so much of them them, as is attributable to: (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or from other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected effected, through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on or has carried on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions those deductible expenses which are incurred for the purposes purpose of the permanent establishment, establishment including the executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary.. FBR, Government of Pakistan 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then then, the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Income Tax Convention

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The income or profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the income or profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or; b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs subparagraphs (b) and (c) shall not apply only if it can be shown that the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could were not reasonably have been undertaken carried out by that the permanent establishmentestablishment in order to avoid tax in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the income or profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate independent enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishmentconditions. 3. In determining the income or profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including a reasonable allocation or apportionment of executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the income or profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various partsparts or, in the case of a person who does not claim taxation on the basis of the actual net profits of the permanent establishment, on the basis of a certain reasonable percentage of the gross receipts of the permanent establishment, nothing in paragraph 2 of this Article shall preclude that Contracting such State from determining the income or profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customarya method. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 5. No income or profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the income or profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where income or profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article. 8. For the purposes of the Convention, the term "business profits" means income derived from any trade or business, including profits from the rental of ships, aircraft and containers (including trailers, barges and related equipment for the transport or containers), if such profits are not incidental to income from the operation of ships or aircraft in international traffic. 9. In applying paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, paragraph 5 of Article 10 (Dividends), paragraph 5 of Article 11 (Interest), paragraph 4 of Article 12 (Royalties), paragraph 1(a) of Article 15 (Independent Personal Services) and paragraph 2 of Article 24 (Other Income), any income attributable to a permanent establishment or fixed base during its existence is taxable in the Contracting State in which such permanent establishment or fixed base is situated, even if the payments are deferred until such permanent establishment or fixed base has ceased to exist.

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Samples: Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that Contracting State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated thereinin that other Contracting State. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through to that permanent establishment. The Payments of any kind received as a consideration for the use of, or the right to use, industrial, commercial or scientific equipment, shall be deemed to be profits of an enterprise to which the provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) this Article shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishmentapply. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 34, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 65. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 76. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that the State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) a. that permanent establishment; or; b) b. sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) c. other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) above shall not apply if the enterprise shows proves that such sales sale or activities activity could not reasonably have been reasonably undertaken by that the permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed attributable to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions deduction expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhereelsewhere in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitation of the tax laws of that State. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that the Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The , the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on or has carried on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is are attributable to:to - a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in within that other Contracting State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or from other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected affected, through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions deduction expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts paid or charged (other than reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of: a) royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights; b) commission for specific services performed or for management; and c) interest on money lent to the permanent establishment, except in the case of a banking institution. 6. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions provision of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is are attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or. b) sales 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, where an enterprise of a Contracting State which has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State carries on business activities in that other State of goods or merchandise otherwise than through the permanent establishment, of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other the business activities carried on in that other State of by the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions , then the profits of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if such activities may be attributable to the permanent establishment unless the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been reasonably undertaken by that the permanent establishment. 23. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 34, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 34. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards the reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services performed or for management, or except in the case of a banking enterprise by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 45. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 3 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 56. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the States shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, . the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State State, but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or b) sales establishment or is derived in that the other State from the sale of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those is sold through that the permanent establishment; or c) , or from other business activities carried on in that other State transactions of the same or similar kind as those effected are carried on through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise in one of a Contracting State the States carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall shall, in each Contracting State State, be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar In so far as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained principle laid down in this Articlearticle. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterpriseestablishment. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.article. Article 8

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Samples: Income and Capital Tax Convention

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the two States shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that establishment or are derived within such other State from sales of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) sold, or from other business activities carried on in that other State transaction of the same or similar kind as those effected effected, through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where Where an enterprise of a Contracting State one of the two States carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting one of the two State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained laid down in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes purpose of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.Article Where: (a) (b)

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Samples: Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State State, but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) to that permanent establishment; or. b) sales 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 where an enterprise of a Contracting State which has a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State carries on business activities in that other State of goods or merchandise otherwise than through the permanent establishment, of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other the business activities carried on in that other State of by the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions , then the profits of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if such activities may be attributable to the permanent establishment unless the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been reasonably undertaken by that the permanent establishment. 23. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 34, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 30. In Xx determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether incurred in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, except where the enterprise shows that such activities could not have been reasonably undertaken entirely by the permanent establishment. 45. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 3 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 50. No Xx profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 67. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 78. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: to (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or or (c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions deduction expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere, which are allowed under the provisions of the domestic law of the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 75. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.Article.β€Œ

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Samples: Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other Contracting State but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods directly or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through indirectly to that permanent establishment. The provisions words "directly or indirectly" mean, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if this Article, that where a permanent establishment takes an active part in negotiating, concluding or fulfilling contracts entered into by the enterprise, then notwithstanding that other parts of the enterprise shows have also participated in those transactions, there shall be attributed to the permanent establishment that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by proportion of profits of the enterprise arising out of those contracts as the contribution of the permanent establishment to those transactions bears to that permanent establishmentof the enterprise as a whole. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhereelsewhere in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the tax laws of that State. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason reasons of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this ConventionAgreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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Samples: Agreement for Avoidance of Double Taxation

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to: to (a) that permanent establishment; or (b) sales in that the other State of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent establishment; or or (c) other business activities carried on in that the other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate independent enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently at arm's length with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishmentestablishment and other enterprises controlling, controlled by or subject to the same common control as that enterprise. In any case where the correct amount of profits attributable to a permanent establishment is incapable of determination or the determination thereof presents exceptional difficulties, the profits attributable to the permanent establishment may be estimated on a reasonable basis. The estimate adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this article. 3. In determining the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the business of the permanent establishment, including a reasonable allocation of executive and general administrative expenses, research and development expenses, interest, and other expenses so incurredincurred for the purposes of the enterprise as a whole (or the part thereof which includes the permanent establishment), whether incurred in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained provisions of and subject to the limitations of the taxation laws of that State. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in this Articlerespect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents, know-how or other rights, or by way of commission or other charges for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of banking enterprises, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. likewise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than toward reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents, know-how or other rights, or by way of commission or other charges for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices. 54. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 65. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphsthis Convention, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment as provided in paragraph 1(a) of this article shall include only the profits derived from the assets and activities of the permanent establishment and shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 76. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles articles of this Conventionthe convention, then the provisions of those Articles articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Articlearticle. 7. For the purposes of the Convention, the term "business profits" means income derived from any trade or business including income from the furnishing of services other than included services as defined in article 12 (royalties and fees for included services) and including income from the rental of tangible personal property other than property described in paragraph 3(b) of article 12 (royalties and fees for included services).

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Samples: Double Taxation Agreement

BUSINESS PROFITS. 1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on or has carried on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on or has carried on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State Contracting State, but only so much of them as is attributable to: a) that permanent establishment; or b) sales in that other State of goods or merchandise of the same a type identical or similar kind as to that of those sold through that permanent establishment; or c) other business activities carried on in that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that permanent establishment. The provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c) shall not apply if the enterprise shows that such sales or activities could not reasonably have been undertaken by that permanent establishment. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 33 of this Article, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on or has carried on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the business may be taxed in the other Contracting State, but only so much of them as is attributable to that permanent establishment. 3. In determining the profits profit of a the permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than toward reimbursement of actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or similar payments in return for the right to use patents or other rights, or by way of commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of a bank, by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Such provisions shall apply in accordance with the domestic laws of the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated. 4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 of this Article shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary. The ; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article. 5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise. 6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary. 7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.. Article 8

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Samples: Income and Capital Tax Convention

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