TMI BlogDTAA – AGREEMENT FOR EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE IN COLLECTION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES – ARGENTINEX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... entine Republic for the exchange of information and assistance in collection with respect to taxes, as set out in the Annexure hereto, shall be given effect to in the Union of India with effect from the 28th day of January, 2013, that is. the date of entry into force of the Agreement. AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE IN COLLECTION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES The Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Argentine Republic, desiring to facilitate the exchange of information and assistance in collection with respect to taxes have agreed as follows: ARTICLE 1 OBJECT AND SCOPE OF THE AGREEMENT The competent authorities of the Contracting Parties shall provide assistance through exchange of information that is foreseeably relevant to the administration and enforcement of the domestic laws of the Contracting Parties concerning taxes covered by this Agreement. Such information shall include information that is foreseeably relevant to the determination, assessment and collection of such taxes, the recovery and ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ing the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea; (b) the term, "Argentina" means the territory of Argentine Republic and includes the territorial sea and airspace above it, as well as any other maritime zone in which Argentina has sovereign rights, other rights and jurisdiction, according to the Argentine law and in accordance with international law, including the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea; (c) the term "Contracting Party" means India or Argentina as the context requires; (d) the term "competent authority" means (i) in the case of India, the Finance Minister, Government of India, or his authorized representative; (ii) in the case of Argentina, "Administraction Federal de Ingresos Publicos" (the Federal Administration of Public Revenues); (e) the term "person" includes an individual, a company, a body of persons and any other entity which is treated as a taxable unit under the taxation laws in force in the respective Contracting Parties; (f) the term "company" means any body corporate or any entity that is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes; (g) the term "publicly traded company" means any company whose principal class of shares is listed on a rec ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... e requested tax claim; (q) the term "information" means any fact, statement, document or record in whatever form; 2. As regards the application of this Agreement at any time by a Contracting Party, any term not defined therein shall, unless the context otherwise requires or the competent authorities agree to a common meaning pursuant to the provisions of Article 12 of this Agreement, have the meaning that it has at that time under the law of that Party, any meaning under the applicable tax laws of that Party prevailing over a meaning given to the term under other laws of that Party. ARTICLE 5 EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION UPON REQUEST 1. The competent authority of the requested Party shall provide upon request information for the purposes referred to in Article 1. Such information shall be exchanged without regard to whether the requested Party needs such information for its own tax purposes or whether the conduct being investigated would constitute a crime under the laws of the requested Party if such conduct occurred in the requested Party. 2. If the information in the possession of the competent authority of the requested Party is not sufficient to enable it to comply ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... is requested; (c) the nature of the information requested and the form in which the requesting Party would prefer to receive it; (d) the tax purpose for which the information is sought; (e) grounds for believing that the information requested is present in the requested Party or is in the possession or control of a person within the jurisdiction of the requested Party; (f) to the extent known, the name and address of any person believed to be in possession or control of the requested information; (g) a statement that the request is in conformity with the laws and administrative practices of the requesting Party, that if the requested information was within the jurisdiction of the requesting Party then the competent authority of the requesting Party would be able to obtain the information under the laws of the requesting Party or in the normal course of administrative practice and that it is in conformity with this Agreement; (h) a statement that the requesting Party has pursued all means available in its own territory to obtain the information, except those that would give rise to disproportionate difficulties. 7. The competent authority of the requested Party shall ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... s Agreement; or (b) where the requesting Parry has not pursued all means available in its own territory to obtain the information, except where recourse to such means would give rise to disproportionate difficulty; or (c) where disclosure of the information would be contrary to public policy (ordre public) of the requested Party. 2. This Agreement shall not impose on a Contracting Party the obligation: (a) to supply information which would disclose any trade, business, industrial, commercial or professional secret or trade process, provided that information described in paragraph 4 of Article 5 shall not be treated as such a secret or trade process merely because it meets the criteria in that paragraph; or (b) to obtain or provide information, which would reveal confidential communications between a client and an attorney, solicitor or other admitted legal representative where such communications are: (i) produced for the purposes of seeking or providing legal advice; or (ii) produced for the purposes of use in existing or contemplated legal proceedings. 3. A request for information shall not be refused on the ground that the tax claim giving rise to the request is ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... to each other in the collection of tax claims. 2. The term "tax claim" as used in this Article means an amount owed in respect of taxes as mentioned in Article 3, as well as interest, administrative penalties and costs of collection or conservancy related to such amount. 3. When a tax claim of a Contracting Party is enforceable under the laws of that Party and is owed by a person who, at that time, cannot, under the laws of that Party prevent its collection, that tax claim shall, at the request of the competent authority of that Party, be accepted for purposes of collection by the competent authority of the other Contracting Party. That tax claim shall be collected by that other Party in accordance with the provisions of its laws applicable to the enforcement and collection of its own taxes as if the tax claim were a tax claim of that other Party. 4. When a tax claim of a Contracting Party is a claim in respect of which that Party may, under its law, take measures of conservancy with a view to ensure its collection, that tax claim shall, at the request of the competent authority of that Party, be accepted for purposes of taking measures of conservancy by the competent authori ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ollection, the competent authority of the first-mentioned Party shall promptly notify the competent authority of the other Party of that fact and, at the option of the other Party, the first-mentioned Party shall either suspend or withdraw its request. 9. In no case shall the provisions of this Article be construed so as to impose on a Contracting Party the obligation: (a) to carry out administrative measures at variance with the laws and administrative practice of that or of the other Contracting Party; (b) to carry out measures which would be contrary to public policy (ordre public); (c) to provide assistant if the other Contracting Party has not pursued all reasonable measures of collection or conservancy, as the case may be, available under its laws or administrative practice; to provide assistance in those cases where the administrative burden for that Party is clearly disproportionate to the benefit to be derived by the other Contracting Party. 10. The competent authority that submits a request of assistance in the collection of tax claims shall provide the following information: the identity of the person about whom assistance is requested, the nature of the ta ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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