TMI BlogAgreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Republic of Mozambique.X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... OVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE 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 Republic of Mozambique, 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 sub-divisions or local authorities, irrespective of the manner in which they are levied. 2. There shall be regarded as taxes on income all taxes imposed on total income, or on elements of income, including taxes on gains from the alienation of movable or immovable property and taxes on the total amounts of wages or salaries paid by enterprises. 3. The existing taxes to which the Agreement shall apply are in particular : ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ntractina State; ( h ) 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; ( i ) the term competent authority means : ( i ) in India: the Finance Minister, Government of India, or his authorized representative; ( ii ) in Mozambique; the Finance Minister, Government of Mozambique, or his authorized representative; ( j ) the term national means: ( i ) any individual possessing the nationality of a Contracting State; ( ii ) any legal person, partnership or association deriving its status as such from the laws in force in a Contracting State; ( k ) the term tax means Indian or Mozambican 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; ( l ) The term fiscal year means: ( i ) in the case of India: the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April; ( ii ) ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... s situated. If the State in which its place of effective management is situated cannot be determined, then the competent authorities of the Contracting States shall endeavour to settle the question by mutual agreement. 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 includes especially ; ( a ) a place of management; ( b ) a branch; ( c ) an office; ( d ) a factory; ( e ) a workshop; ( f ) a sales outlet; ( g ) a warehouse in relation to a person providing storage facilities for others; ( h ) a farm, plantation or other place where agricultural, forestry, plantation or related activities are carried on; and ( i ) a mine, an oil or gas well, a quarry or any other place of extraction of natural resources. 3. The term Permanent establishment also encompasses: ( a ) A building site or construction, installation or assembly project or supervisory activities in connection therewith, but only if such site, project ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... as no such authority, but habitually maintains in the first-mentioned State a stock of goods or merchandise, from which he regularly delivers goods or merchandise on behalf of the enterprise; or ( c ) habitually secures orders in the first-mentioned State, wholly or almost wholly for the enterprise itself. 6. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Article, an insurance enterprise of a Contracting State shall, except in regard to re-insurance, be deemed to have a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State if it collects premiums in the territory of that other State or insures risks situated therein through a person other than an agent of an independent status 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 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... e 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, in accordance with the provisions of and subject to the limitations of the tax laws of that State. However, no such deduction shall be allowed in respect of amounts, if any, 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, likew ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... te unless the containers are used solely within the other Contracting State. 3. For the purposes of this Article interest on investments directly connected with the operation of ships of aircraft in international traffic shall be regarded as profits derived from the operation of such ships or aircraft if they are integral to the carrying on of such business, and the provisions of Article 11 shall not apply in relation to such interest. 4. The provisions of paragraph 1 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 person 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 indep ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... services from a fixed base situated therein, and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid 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 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 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 whic ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... se, then such interest shall be deemed to arise in the State in which the permanent establishment or fixed base is situated. 7. 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 interest, having regard to the debt claim for which it is 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 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 th ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 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 13 : CAPITAL GAINS - 1. Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of immovable property referred 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 b ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... s of paragraph 1, remuneration derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of an employment exercised in the other Contracting State shall be taxable only in the first-mentioned State if : ( a ) the recipient 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 in a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State. Article 17 : ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... r authority shall be taxable only in that State. ( b ) However, such pension and other similar remuneration 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 pensions 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 : PROFESSORS, TEACHERS AND RESEARCH SCHOLARS - 1. A professor, teacher or research scholar who is or was a resident of the Contracting State immediately before visiting the other Contracting State for the purpose of teaching or engaging in research, or both, at a university, college or other similar approved institution in that other Contracting State shall be exempt from tax in that other State on any remuneration for such teaching or research for a period not exceeding 2 years from the date of his arrival in that other State. 2. This Article shall apply to income from research only if such research is undertaken by the individual in the public intere ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ces, card games and other games of any sort or gambling or betting of any nature whatsoever, 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 State except, when express provision to the contrary is made in this Agreement. When 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. Double taxation shall be eliminated as follows: ( i ) In India: ( a ) Where a resident of India derives income which, in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, may be taxed in Mozambique, India shall allow as a deduction from the tax on the income of that resident, an amount equal to the tax paid in Mozambique. 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 Mozambique. ( b ) Where in accordance with any provision of ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... rpose 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 requirement 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 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 Agreement, he may, irrespective of the remedies provided by the domestic law of those States, present his case to the competent authority of the Contracting State of which he is a resident or, if his case comes under paragraph 1 of Article 24, to that of t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the taxes referred to in paragraph 1, or the oversight of the above. 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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, information received by a Contracting State may be used for other purpose when such information may be used for such other purposes under the laws of both States and the competent authority of the supplying State authorizes such use. 3. In no case shall the provisions of paragraph 1 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 certified 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 pol ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... claim in respect of which that State may, under its law, take measures of conservancy with a view to ensure its collection, that revenue claim shall, at the request of the competent authority of that State, be accepted for purposes of taking measures of conservancy by the competent authority of the other Contracting State. That other State shall take measures of conservancy in respect of that revenue claim in accordance with the provisions of its laws as if the revenue claim were a revenue claim of that other State even if, at the time when such measures are applied, the revenue claim is not enforceable in the first-mentioned State or is owed by a person who has a right to prevent its collection. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4, a revenue claim accepted by a Contracting State for purposes of paragraph 3 or 4 shall not, in that State, be subject to the time limits or accorded any priority applicable to a revenue claim under the laws of that State by reason of its nature as such. In addition, a revenue claim accepted by a Contracting State for the purposes of paragraph 3 or 4 shall not, in that State, have any priority applicable to that revenue claim und ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... er as if it was the primary purpose or one of the primary purposes was to take the benefits of this Agreement. The case of legal entities not having bona fide business activities shall be covered by the provisions of this Article. Article 29 : MEMBERS OF DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS AND CONSULAR POSTS - Nothing in this Agreement shall affect the fiscal privileges of members of diplomatic missions or consular posts under the general rules of international law or under the provisions of special agreements. Article 30 : ENTRY INTO FORCE - 1. The Contracting States shall notify each other in writing, through diplomatic channels, of the completion of the procedures required by the respective laws for the entry into force of this Agreement. 2. This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of the later of the notifications referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article. 3. The provisions of this Agreement shall have effect: ( a ) 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; and ( b ) In Mozambique, in respect of income derived in ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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