Article 13 Capital gains

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.

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.

Gains from the alienation of ships, aircraft or boats engaged in inland waterways transport operated in international traffic, or movable property pertaining to the operation of such ships, aircraft or boats, shall be taxable only in the Contracting State in which the place of effective management of the enterprise is situated. For the purposes of this paragraph the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article 8 shall apply.

Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of shares in a company or comparable interests, such as interests in a partnership or trust, may be taxed in the other Contracting State if, at any time during the 365 days preceding the alienation, these shares or comparable interests derived more than 75 per cent of their value directly or indirectly from immovable property as defined in Article 6, situated in that other Contracting State.

However such gains shall be taxable only in the first mentioned State where the resident is a recognized pension fund of that State which is generally exempt from tax in that State.

Gains from the alienation of any property other than that referred to in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 3a shall be taxable only in the Contracting State of which the alienator is a resident.

The provisions of paragraph 4 shall not affect the right of each of the Contracting States to levy according to its own law a tax on gains from the alienation of shares or ‘jouissance’ rights in a company, the capital of which is wholly or partly divided into shares and which under the laws of that State is a resident of that State, derived by an individual who is a resident of the other Contracting State and has been a resident of the first-mentioned State in the course of the last ten years preceding the alienation of the shares or ‘jouissance’ rights.

In case where, under the domestic laws of the first-mentioned Contracting State, an assessment has been issued to the individual in respect of the alienation of the aforesaid shares deemed to have taken place at the time of his emigration from the first-mentioned Contracting State, the above shall apply only in so far as part of the assessment is still outstanding.