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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.         a)         The term “immovable property” shall, subject to the

                         provisions of sub-paragraphs b) and c), have the meaning

                         which it has under the law of the Contracting State in which

                         the property in question is situated.

            b)         The term “immovable property” 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.

            c)         Ships 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.         Where the ownership of shares or other corporate rights in a company entitles the owner of such shares or corporate rights to the enjoyment of  immovable property held by the company, the income from the direct use, letting, of use in any other form of such right to enjoyment may be taxed in the Contracting State in which the immovable property is situated.

 

5.         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.

 

6.         The provisions of paragraph 4 shall also apply to the income from a right of enjoyment referred to in that paragraph of an enterprise and to income from such right of enjoyment used for the performance of independent personal services.

 

 

ARTICLE 7
Business Profits

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

 

2.         Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the income or profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment.

 

3.         In 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 a certain percentage of the gross receipts of the enterprise or on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such 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 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 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 derived by an enterprise of a Contracting State from the operation of aircraft in international traffic shall be taxable only in that State.

 

2.         Income 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 likewise apply in respect of participations in pools, a joint business or an international operating agency of any kind by enterprises engaged in shipping or air transport.

 

 

ARTICLE 9
Associated Enterprises

1.         Where

            a)         an enterprise of a Contracting State participates directly or

                         indirectly in the management, control or capital of an

                         enterprise of the other Contracting State, or

            b)         the same persons participate directly or indirectly in the

                         management, control or capital of an enterprise of a

                         Contracting State and an enterprise of the other Contracting

                         State,

            and in either case conditions are made or imposed between the two enterprises in their commercial or financial relations which differ from those which would be made between independent enterprises, then any 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 profits of that enterprise and taxed accordingly.

 

2.         Where a Contracting State includes in the profits of an enterprise of that State-and taxes accordingly - profits on which an enterprise of the other Contracting State has been charged to tax in that other State and the profits so included are by the first-mentioned State claimed to that enterprise to be profits which have accrued to the enterprise of the first-mentioned State if the conditions made between the two enterprises had been those which would have been made between independent enterprises, then that other State shall make an appropriate adjustment to the amount of tax charged therein on those profits, where that other State considers the adjustment justified.  In determining such adjustment, due regard shall be had to the other provisions of this  Convention.

 

3.         A Contracting State shall not change the profits of an enterprise in the circumstances referred to in paragraph 1 after the expiry of the time limits provided in its national laws and, in any case, after five years from the end of the year in which the profits which would be subject to such change would have accrued to an enterprise of that State.

 

4.         The provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 shall not apply in the case of fraud,  willful  default or neglect including a case where an enterprise has not filed a return within the time limit specified in the laws of the State of which it is a resident.

 

 

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 be taxed in the Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, and according to the law of that State, but, if the recipient of the dividends is a company, excluding partnership, which holds directly at least 25 per cent of the capital of the former company, the tax so charged shall not exceed:

            a)          15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the

                          company paying the dividend engages in an industrial

                          undertaking;

            b)          20 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in other

                         cases.

            The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of these limitations.

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

 

3.         a)         The term “dividends” as used in this Article means income

                         from shares, or other rights, not being debt-claims,

                         participating in profits,  as well as income from other

                         corporate rights 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.

            b)         The term “industrial undertaking” means:

                         1)         any undertaking engaged in

                                     (i)         manufacturing, assembling and processing,

                                     (ii)        construction, civil engineering and ship-

                                                  building,

                                     (iii)       production of electricity, hydraulic power or gas,

                                                  or the supply of water, or

                                     (iv)       agriculture, forestry and fishery and the carrying

                                                 on of a plantation, and

                         2)         any other undertaking entitled to the privileges

                                      accorded under the laws of Thailand on the

                                      promotion of industrial investment, and

                         3)         any other undertaking which may be declared to be an

                                      “industrial undertaking” for the purpose of this Article

                                      by the competent authority  of Thailand.

 

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 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 either Contracting State from imposing income tax on disposal of profits according to the laws of that State.

 

 

 

Last updated: 08.12.2011