Einde inhoudsopgave
Agreement between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Sultanate of Oman for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income
Article 5 Permanent establishment
Geldend
Geldend vanaf 28-12-2011
- Bronpublicatie:
05-10-2009, Trb. 2010, 181 (uitgifte: 17-06-2010, kamerstukken/regelingnummer: -)
- Inwerkingtreding
28-12-2011
- Bronpublicatie inwerkingtreding:
22-12-2011, Trb. 2011, 265 (uitgifte: 22-12-2011, kamerstukken/regelingnummer: -)
- Vakgebied(en)
Internationaal belastingrecht (V)
Internationaal belastingrecht / Belastingverdragen
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, and
- f)
a mine, an oil or gas well, a quarry or any other place of extraction of natural resources.
3.
A building site or a construction or assembly or installation project or supervisory activities in connection therewith constitutes a permanent establishment only if it lasts more than 9 (nine) months.
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, display or delivery of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise;
- b)
the maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of storage, display or delivery;
- c)
the maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of processing by another enterprise;
- d)
the maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for the purpose of purchasing goods or merchandise or of collecting information, for the enterprise;
- e)
the maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for the purpose of carrying on, for the enterprise, any other activity of a preparatory or auxiliary character;
- f)
the maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for any combination of activities mentioned in subparagraphs a) to e), provided that the overall activity of the fixed place of business resulting from this combination is of a preparatory or auxiliary character.
5.
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2, where a person other than an agent of an independent status to whom paragraph 6 applies, is acting in a Contracting State on behalf of an enterprise of the other Contracting State, that enterprise shall be deemed to have a permanent establishment in the first mentioned Contracting State in respect of any activities which that person undertakes for the enterprise, if such a person:
- a)
has and habitually exercises in that State an authority to conclude contracts in the name of the enterprise, unless the activities of such person are limited to those mentioned in paragraph 4 which, if exercised through a fixed place of business, would not make this fixed place of business a permanent establishment under the provisions of that paragraph; or
- b)
has no such authority, but habitually maintains in the first-mentioned State a stock of goods or merchandise from which he delivers goods or merchandise on behalf of the enterprise.
6.
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, and conditions are made or imposed between the enterprise and the agent in their commercial and financial relations which differ from those which would have been made between independent enterprises, he will not be considered an agent of an independent status within the meaning of this paragraph.
7.
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.