TMI BlogAgreement for Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income between India and Myanmar to be effective from 1-04-2010X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... [F.No.504/10/2004-FT TR-II] (K. Ramalingam) Joint Secretary to the Government of India AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR DESIRING to conclude an Agreement for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income, and with a view to promoting economic cooperation between the two countries, have agreed as follows: Article 1 PERSONS COVERED This Agreement shall apply to persons who are residents of one or both of the Contracting States. Article 2 TAXES COVERED 1. This Agreement shall apply to taxes on income imposed on behalf of a Contracting State or of its political subdivisions or local authorities, irrespective of the manner in which they are levied. 2. There shall be regarded as taxes on income all ta ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... n force in the respective Contracting States; (h) the term company means any body corporate or any other entity that is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes; (i) the term tax means Myanmar or Indian tax, as the context requires, but shall not include any amount which is payable in respect of any default or omission in relation to the taxes to which this Agreement applies or which represents a penalty or fine imposed relating to those taxes; (j) the term competent authority means : (i) in the case of Myanmar, the Minister for Finance and Revenue Government of Union of Myanmar or his authorized representative; (ii) in India, the Finance Minister, Government of India, or its authorized representative; (k) the term international, traffic means any transport by a ship or aircraft operated by an enterprise of a Contracting State, except when the ship or aircraft is operated solely between places in the other Contracting State; (l) the term fiscal year means: (i) in the case of Myanmar: the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April; (ii) in the case of India : the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April. 2. As regards the app ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Article 5 PERMANENT ESTABLISHMENT 1. For the purposes of this Agreement, the term permanent establishment means a fixed place of business through which the business of an enterprise is wholly or partly carried on. 2. The term permanent establishment shall include especially: (a) aplace of management; (b) a branch; (c) an office; (d) a factory; (e) a workshop; (f) a mine, an oil or gas well, a quarry or any other place of extraction of natural resources; (g) a sales outlet; (h) a warehouse in relation to a person providing storage facilities for others; (i) a farm, plantation or other place where agricultural, forestry, plantation or related activities are carried on. 3. A building site or construction, installation or assembly project or supervisory activities in connection therewith constitutes a permanent establishment only if such site, project or activities last more than 270 days. 4. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Article the term permanent establishment shall be deemed not to include: (a) the use of facilities solely for the purpose of storage or display of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterp ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... us to whom paragraph 7 applies. 7. An enterprise shall not be deemed to have a permanent establishment in a Contracting State merely because it carries on business in that State through a broker, general commission agent or any other agent of an independent status, provided that such persons are acting in the ordinary course of their business. However, when the activities of such an agent are devoted wholly or almost wholly on behalf of that enterprise, he will not be considered an agent of an independent status within the meaning of this paragraph. 8. The fact that a company which is a resident of a Contracting State controls or is controlled by a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State, or which carries on business in that other State (whether through a permanent establishment or otherwise), shall not of itself constitute either company a permanent establishment of the other. Article 6 INCOME FROM IMMOVABLE PROPERTY 1. Income derived by a resident of a Contracting State from immovable property 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 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ny, 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, know-how or-other rights, or by way of commission or other charges for specific services performed or for management, or, except in the case of banking enterprises by way of interest on moneys lent to the permanent establishment. Like wise, no account shall be taken, in the determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged (otherwise than toward 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, know-how or other rights, or by way of commission or other charges 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 profi ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... h interest. 5. The provisions of paragraph 1 and 2 shall also apply to profits from the participation in a pool, a joint business or an international operating agency. 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 profit of an enterprise of the State - and taxes accordingly -profits on which an enterprise of the other Contracting State has been charged to ta ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ept 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. Article 11 INTEREST 1. Interest arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State. 2. However, such interest may also be taxed in the Contracting State in which it arises, and according to the laws of that State, but if the beneficial owner of the interest is a resident of the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the gross amount of the interest. 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 2, interest arising in a Contracting State shall be exempt from tax in that State, provided that it is derived and beneficially owned by: (a) the Government, a political sub-division or a local a ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 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 State, due regard being had to the other provisions of this Agreement. Article 12 ROYALTIES 1. Royalties arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State. 2. However, such royalties may also be taxed in the Contracting State in which they arise, and according to the laws of that State, but if the beneficial owner of the royalties is a resident of the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the gross amount of the royalties. 3. The term royalties as used in this Article means payments of any kind received as a consideration for the use of, or the right to use, any copyright of literary, artistic or scientific work including cinematograph films or films or tapes used for television or radio broadcasting, any patent, trade mark, design or model, plan, secret formula or ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... to in Article 6 and situated in the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State. 2. Gains from the alienation of movable property forming part of the business property of a permanent establishment which an enterprise of a Contracting State has in the other Contracting State or of movable property pertaining to a fixed base available to a resident of a Contracting State in the other Contracting State for the purpose of performing independent personal services, including such gains from the alienation of such a permanent establishment (alone or with the whole enterprise ), or of such fixed base, may be taxed in that other State. 3. Gains from the alienation of ships or aircraft operated in international traffic, or movable property pertaining to the operation of such ships or aircraft shall be taxable only in the Contracting State of which the alienator is a resident. 4. Gains from the alienation of shares of the capital stock of a company the property of which consists directly or indirectly principally of immovable property situated in a Contracting State may be taxed in that State. 5. Gains from the alienation of shares other than those mentioned in parag ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... pient is present in the other State for a period or periods not exceeding in the aggregate 183 days in any twelve month period commencing or ending in the fiscal year concerned; and (b) the remuneration is paid by, or on behalf of, an employer who is not a resident of the other State; and (c) the remuneration is not borne by a permanent establishment or a fixed base which the employer has in the other State. 3. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Article, remuneration derived in respect of an employment exercised aboard a ship or aircraft operated in international traffic, by an enterprise of a Contracting State may be taxed in that State. Article 16 DIRECTORS' FEES Directors' fees and other similar payments derived by a resident of a Contracting State in his capacity as a member of the Board of Directors of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State. Article 17 ARTISTES AND SPORTS PERSONS 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 14 and 15, income derived by a resident of a Contracting State as an entertainer, such as a theatre, motion picture, radio or television artiste ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ereof to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State or political subdivision or local authority thereof shall be taxable only in that State. (b) However, such pension shall be taxable only in the other Contracting State if the individual is a resident of, and a national of that State. 3. The provisions of Articles 15, 16, 17 and 18 shall apply to salaries, wages and other similar remuneration and to pension in respect of services rendered in connection with a business carried on by a Contracting State or a political subdivision or a local authority thereof. Article 20 STUDENTS 1. A student who is or was a resident of one of the Contracting States immediately before visiting the other Contracting State and who is present in that other Contracting State solely for the purpose of his education or training shall besides grants, loans and scholarships be exempt from tax in that other State on: (a) payments made to him by persons residing outside that other State for the purposes of his maintenance, education or training; and (b) remuneration which he derives from an employment which he exercises in the other Contracting State if the employment i ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... eries, winnings from games and gains from activities of similar nature, such income may be taxed in the other Contracting State. Article 23 METHODS FOR ELIMINATION OF DOUBLE TAXATION 1. The laws in force in either of the Contracting State shall continue to govern the taxation of income in the respective Contracting States except where express provision to the contrary is made in this Agreement. Where income is subject to tax in both Contracting States, relief from double taxation shall be given in accordance with the following paragraphs of this Article. 2. In Myanmar: (a) Where a resident of Myanmar derives income which, in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, may be taxed in India, Myanmar shall allow as a deduction from the tax on the income of that resident, an amount equal to the tax paid in India Such deduction shall not, however, exceed that portion of the tax as computed before the deduction is given, which is attributable, as the case may be, to the income which may be taxed in India. (b) Where in accordance with any provision of the Agreement, income derived by a resident of Myanmar is exempt from tax in Myanmar, Myanmar may nevertheles ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... rovisions of paragraph 1 of Article 9, paragraph 7 of Article 11, or paragraph 6 of Article 12 apply, interest, royalties and other disbursements paid by an enterprise of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, for the purpose of determining the taxable profits of such enterprise, be deductible under the same conditions as if they had been paid to a resident of the first-mentioned State. 4. Enterprises of a Contracting State, the capital of which is wholly or partly owned or controlled directly or indirectly, by one or more residents of the other Contracting State, shall not be subjected in the first-mentioned State to any taxation or any requirements connected therewith which is other or more burdensome than the taxation and connected requirements to which other similar enterprises of the first-mentioned State are or may be subjected. 5. The provisions of this Article shall apply to the taxes covered by this Agreement. Article 25 MUTUAL AGREEMENT PROCEDURE 1. Where a person considers that the actions of one or both of the Contracting States result or will result for him in taxation not in accordance with the provisions of this Agr ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... all be disclosed only to persons or authorities (including courts and administrative bodies) concerned with the assessment or collection of, the enforcement or prosecution in respect of, or the determination of appeals in relation to the taxes referred to in the first sentence. Such persons or authorities shall use the information only for such purposes. They may disclose the information in public court proceedings or in judicial decisions. 3. In no case shall the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 be construed so as to impose on a Contracting State the obligation: (a) to carry out administrative measures at variance with the laws and administrative practice of that or of the other Contracting State; (b) to supply information (including documents or authenticated copies of the documents) which is not obtainable under the laws or in the normal course of the administration of that or of the other Contracting State; (c) to supply information which would disclose any trade, business, industrial, commercial or professional secret or trade process, or information, the disclosure of which would be contrary to public policy (ordre public). 4. If information is requested by a C ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... and (b) In India, in respect of income derived in any fiscal year beginning on or after the first day of April next following the calendar year in which the Agreement enters into force. Article 30 TERMINATION This Agreement shall remain in force until terminated by a Contracting State. Either Contracting State may terminate the Agreement, through diplomatic channels, by giving notice of termination at least six months before the end of any calendar year beginning after the expiration of five years from the date of entry into force of the Agreement. In such event, the Agreement shall cease to have effect: (a) in Myanmar : (i) in respect of taxes withheld at source, to income derived on or after the first day of April in the fiscal year following the year in which the notice is given; (ii) in respect of other taxes on income, to taxes chargeable for any fiscal year beginning on or after the first day of April of the next fiscal year following the year in which the notice is given ; (b) in India: in respect of income derived in any fiscal year on or after the first day of April next following the calendar year in which the notice is given. IN WITNESS whe ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... s situated. The profits related to that part of the contract which is carried out by the head office of the enterprise shall be taxable only in the State of which the enterprise is a resident. 3. It is understood that the two Contracting States will review the provisions of this Agreement after a period of 4 years from the date on which this Agreement enters into force in order to consider the inclusion of an Article on Fees for Technical Services within the scope of this Agreement. 4. It is understood that the two Contracting States will review the provisions of Article 8 of this Agreement after a period of 4 years from the date on which this Agreement enters into force in order to consider the taxation of income of shipping enterprises from operations in international traffic, in the source State. 5. It is understood that if the domestic law of a Contracting State is more beneficial to a resident of the other Contracting State than the provisions of this Agreement, then the provisions of the domestic law of the first-mentioned State shall apply to the extent they are more beneficial to such a resident. 6. When Myanmar introduces a provision in its domestic law regar ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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