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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  laws  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 from 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 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  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 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 a  certain reasonable 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.         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.

 

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.

 

7.         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.

 

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.

 

 

ARTICLE 8
SHIPPING AND AIR TRANSPORT

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

 

2.         Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, profits from sources within a Contracting State derived by an enterprise of the other Contracting State from the operation of ships or aircraft in international traffic may be taxed in  the first-mentioned State but the tax so charged shall not exceed the lesser of

            (a)        one and one-half per cent of the gross revenues derived

                         from  sources in that State; and 

            (b)        the  lowest  rate  of Philippine tax that may be imposed on 

                         profits of the same kind derived under similar

                         circumstances  by a resident of a third State.

 

3.         However,  the  tax  so  charged  under paragraph 2, in the case of  operation  of ships in international traffic, shall not be less than fifty per  cent of the tax which is chargeable under the laws of Thailand in force on the date of signature of this Convention.

 

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

 

 

ARTICLE 9
INSURANCE

            Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  Articles  5 and 7, an insurance enterprise  of  a Contracting State, except in regard to reinsurance, shall be  taxable in the other Contracting State according to the laws of that State, if  it  collects  premiums  in  the  territory of that other State or insures risks  situated therein.

 

 

ARTICLE 10
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 reasons 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 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 the tax charged therein on those  profits.  In determining such adjustment, due regard shall be had to the other  provisions of this Convention and the competent authorities of the Contracting State Shall, if necessary, consult each other.

 

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.

 

 

Last updated: 08.12.2011