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Article 13 - Fees for Technical Services - Hong KongExtract Article 13 Fees for Technical Services 1. Fees for technical services arising in a Contracting Party and paid to a resident of the other Contracting Party may be taxed in that other Party. 2. However, such fees for technical services may also be taxed in the Contracting Party in which they arise, and according to the laws of that Party, but if the beneficial owner of the fees for technical services is a resident of the other Contracting Party the tax so charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the gross amount of the fees for technical services. 3. The term fees for technical services as used in this Article means payments of any kind as consideration for managerial, technical or consultancy services, including through the provision of services of technical or other personnel, but does not include payments for independent personal services and for dependent personal services as mentioned in Articles 15 and 16 respectively of this Agreement. 4. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the fees for technical services, being a resident of a Contracting Party, carries on business in the other Contracting Party in which the fees for technical services arise, through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other Party independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, and the right or property in respect of which the fees for technical services are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 15, as the case may be, shall apply. 5. Fees for technical services shall be deemed to arise in a Contracting Party when the payer is a resident of that Party. Where, however, the person paying the fees for technical services, whether he is a resident of a Contracting Party or not, has in a Contracting Party a permanent establishment or a fixed base in connection with which the liability to pay the fees for technical services was incurred, and such fees for technical services are borne by such permanent establishment or fixed base, then such fees for technical services shall be deemed to arise in the Contracting Party in which the permanent establishment or fixed base is situated. 6. Where, by reason of a special relationship between the payer and the beneficial owner or between both of them and some other person, the amount of the fees for technical services, having regard to the use, right or information for which they are paid, exceeds the amount which would have been agreed upon by the payer and the beneficial owner in the absence of such relationship, the provisions of this Article shall apply only to the last mentioned amount. In such case, the excess part of the payments shall remain taxable according to the laws of each Contracting Party, due regard being had to the other provisions of the Agreement. 7. The benefits of this Article shall not be available if the main purpose or one of the main purposes of any person concerned with performance of services in respect of which the technical fees are paid is to take advantage of this Article by means of such performance of services.
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