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ARTICLE 6
INCOME FROM IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

 

1.         Income  derived  by a resident  of  a  Contracting  State  from  immovable  property  (including  income   from  agriculture or forestry) situated in the other  Contracting  State may be taxed in that other State.

 

2.         The  term  "immovable property" shall  have  the  meaning which it has under the law of the Contracting State  in  which  the property in question is situated.  The  term   shall  in any case include property accessory to immovable property, livestock and equipment used in agriculture  and  forestry,  rights  to which the provisions of  general  law   respecting  landed  property apply, usufruct  of  immovable  property  and  rights  to variable  or  fixed  payments  as consideration  for  the working of, or the right  to  work, mineral  deposits,  sources and  other  natural  resources;  ships,  boats  and  aircraft  shall  not  be  regarded   as  immovable property.

 

3.         The  provisions  of  paragraph 1  shall  apply  to  income derived from the direct use, letting, or use in  any  other form of immovable property.

 

4.         The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 3 shall also apply  to the  income  from  immovable  property  of  an  enterprise  and to income from immovable property used  for  the performance of independent personal services.

 

 

ARTICLE 7
BUSINESS PROFITS

1.         The income or  profits of an  enterprise  of  a Contracting  State  shall  be taxable only  in  that  State unless  the  enterprise carries on business  in  the  other  Contracting   State  through  a  permanent  establishment  situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business  as  aforesaid,  the income or profits of the enterprise may  be taxed  in  the other State but only so much of them  as  is  attributable  to;

            (a)        that  permanent  establishment;

            (b)        sales in that other State of  goods or merchandise of  the

                         same or similar kind  as those  sold  through  that 

                         permanent  establishment; or

            (c)        other  business activities carried on in  that  other  State  of

                         the same or similar kind  as  those   effected   through   that   

                         permanent  establishment.

 

2.         Subject  to the provisions of paragraph 3  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  income  or profits which  it  might  be  expected  to   make  if it were  a  distinct  and  separate  enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities  under  the  same  or  similar  conditions and  dealing  wholly  independently  with  the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment.

 

3.         In the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment,  there  shall  be  allowed  as   deductions  expenses  which  are  incurred  for  the  purposes  of  the  business of the permanent establishment including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in  the State in which the permanent establishment is  situated   or  elsewhere. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards       reimbursement   of  actual  expenses)  by   the   permanent   establishment  to the head office of the enterprise or  any of  its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of patents or other  rights,  or  by way of commission,  for  specific  services performed  or for management, or, except in the case  of  a  banking  enterprise, by way of interest on moneys  lent  to the permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall  be  taken,  in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than towards     reimbursement   of  actual  expenses),  by  the  permanent  establishment  to the head office of the enterprise or any  of  its  other offices by way of royalties, fees  or  other similar payments in return for  the use of  patents or other rights, or  by  way of  commission  for  specific  services  performed  or for management, or, except in the case  of  a  banking  enterprise, by way of interest on moneys  lent  to the  head  office  of the enterprise or any  of  its  other  offices.

 

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

 

5.         No  income  or profits shall be  attributed  to a  permanent  establishment by reason of the mere purchase  by  that  permanent establishment of goods or  merchandise  for  the enterprise.

 

6.         For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the income or profits to be attributed to  the  permanent  establishment  shall be determined by the same method  year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to  the  contrary.

 

7.         Where  income or profits include items  of  income which  are dealt with separately in other Articles of  this  Convention, then the provisions of those Articles shall not  be affected by the provisions of this Article.

 

 

ARTICLE 8
SHIPPING AND AIR TRANSPORT

1.         Income or profits derived by an enterprise of a Contracting State  from the operation  of  aircraft  in  international  traffic  shall  be  taxable  only  in   that  Contracting State.

 

2.         Income or profits derived by an  enterprise of a Contracting State from the operation  of   ships  in  international traffic may be taxed in the other Contracting State,  but  the tax imposed in that other State  shall  be  reduced by an amount equal to 50 per cent thereof.

 

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

 

 

ARTICLE 9
ASSOCIATED ENTERPRISES

Where

            (a)        an enterprise of a Contracting State participates directly or

                         indirectly in the  management,  control  or  capital of an

                         enterprise of the other Contracting State, or

            (b)        the  same  persons  participate directly or indirectly  in  the

                          management, control or capital of an enterprise of a

                          Contracting State

 

            and an enterprise of the other Contracting State, and in either case conditions  are  made  or  imposed  between the two enterprises  in  their commercial  or financial relations which differ from those which  would  be made between independent enterprises, then any income or  profits  which  would,  but  for  those conditions,  have  accrued to one of  the enterprises, but, by  reason  of  those conditions, have not so accrued, may be included  in the income or profits of that  enterprise  and  taxed accordingly.

 

 

 

ARTICLE 10
DIVIDENDS

1.         Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other  Contracting  State may be taxed in that other State.

 

2.         However,  such dividends may also be taxed in  the Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends  is a resident, and according to the laws of that State, but  if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the  dividends,   the tax so charged shall not exceed:

            (a)        in the case of Thailand:

                         15  per  cent  of  the  gross  amount  of  the dividends;

            (b)        in the case of Luxembourg:

                         i)          5  per  cent  of the gross  amount  of  the dividends  if 

                                      the beneficial  owner  is a company  (other than a 

                                      partnership)  which holds directly at least 25 per cent

                                      of  the capital   of   the   company   paying   the 

                                      dividends;

                         ii)         15  per  cent of the gross  amount  of  the dividends in

                                      all other cases.

 

            This  paragraph shall not affect the  taxation  of the  company  in respect of the profits out  of  which  the  dividends are paid.

 

 

3.         The term  "dividends" as used  in  this  Article means income from shares, mining  shares, founders'  shares  or  other rights, not being debt-claims,  participating  in profits, as  well as income from other corporate  rights which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income        from shares by the laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident.

 

4.         The  provisions  of paragraphs 1 and 2  shall  not  apply  if  the beneficial owner of the dividends,  being  a  resident of a Contracting State, carries on business in the other  Contracting  State of which the company  paying  the dividends is a resident, through a permanent  establishment  situated  therein,  or  performs  in  that   other State  independent  personal services from a fixed  base  situated  therein, and the holding in respect of which the  dividends   are  paid  is  effectively connected  with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such case the provisions of  Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.

 

5.         Where  a  company  which  is  a  resident  of   a  Contracting State  derives profits or income from the other Contracting State, that other State may not impose any  tax on  the  dividends paid by the company, except  insofar  as  such  dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar as the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid  is effectively  connected with  a  permanent establishment or a fixed base situated in that other State,  nor subject the company's undistributed profits to a tax on the company's undistributed profits, even if the  dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or  partly of  profits or income arising in such other State.  Nothing  in this paragraph shall be construed as preventing Thailand  from  imposing  income  tax,  according  to  the  laws   of  Thailand,  on the disposal of profits made by  a  permanent establishment  situated  therein, but the  tax  so  charged  shall not exceed the rate provided for in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 2 of this Article.

 

 

Last updated: 08.12.2011