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CHAPTER III
TAXATION OF INCOME

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.         For the purposes of this Convention, 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 and to profits from the alienation of such 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 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 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 the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses of the enterprise (other than expenses which would not be deductible if the permanent establishment were a separate enterprise) 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, provided that they are directly related or reasonably allocable to the operation of the permanent establishment.

 

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.

 

5.         For the 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.

 

6.         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
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 State.

 

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

 

3.         The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall also apply to income or profits referred to in those paragraphs derived by an enterprise of a Contracting State from its participation in a pool or a joint business.

 

 

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 enterprised 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 profits which would 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. 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 six 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.

 

 

ARTICLE10
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.         Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of Canada to a resident of Thailand who is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxed in Canada in accordance with the laws of Canada but the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends. The provisions of this paragraph shall not affect the taxation of the company on the profits out of which the dividends are paid.

 

3.         Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of Thailand to a resident of Canada who is the beneficial owner of the dividends, may be taxed in Thailand in accordance with the laws of Thailand but, if the recipient of the dividends is a company, excluding a partnership, which holds directly at least  25 per cent of the capital of the Thai company, the tax so charged shall not exceed:

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

                         company paying the dividends engages in an industrial

                         undertaking;

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

                          cases.

The provisions of this paragraph shall not affect the taxation of the company on the profits out of which the dividends are paid.

 

4.         The term “dividends” as used in this Article means income from shares, mining shares, founder’s shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income 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.

 

5.         The term “industrial undertaking” as used in this Article means:

            (a)        any undertaking engaged in

                         (i)         manufacturing, assembling and processing,

                         (ii)        construction, civil engineering and ship-building,

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

                                      supply of water, or

                         (iv)       agriculture, forestry and fishery and the carrying on of

                                     a plantation, and

            (b)        any other undertaking entitled to the privileges accorded

                         under the laws of Thailand on the promotion of industrial

                         investment, and

            (c)        any other undertaking which may be declared to be an

                         “industrial undertaking” for the purpose of this Article by the

                         competent authority of Thailand.

 

6.         The provisions of paragraphs 1, 2 and  3 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.

 

7.         Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State derives profits or income from the other Contracting State, that other State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid by the company, except insofar as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar as the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with a permanent establishment or a fixed base situated in that other State, nor subject the company’s undistributed profits to a tax on undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.

 

8.         Notwithstanding any provision of this Convention

            (a)        a company which is a resident of Thailand and which has a

                         permanent establishment in Canada shall, in accordance

                         with the provisions of Canadian law, remain subject to the

                         additional tax on companies other than Canadian            

                         corporations, but the rate of such tax shall not exceed 15 per

                         cent:

            (b)        a company which is resident of Canada and which has a

                         permanent establishment in Thailand shall remain subject

                         to taxes on disposal of profits out of Thailand in accordance

                         with the provisions of Thai law, but the rate of such tax shall

                         not exceed 25 per cent.

 

Last updated: 08.12.2011