Australian Tax Treaties
Income, profits or gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of immovable (real) property situated in the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.
2
Income, profits or gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of any shares or other interests in a company, or of an interest of any kind in a partnership, trust or other entity, where the value of the assets of such entity, whether they are held directly or indirectly (including through one or more interposed entities, such as, for example, through a chain of companies), is principally attributable to real property situated in the other Contracting State, may be taxed in that other State.
3
Income, profits or gains from the alienation of property, other than immovable (real) property, that forms part of the business property of a permanent establishment which an enterprise of a Contracting State has in the other Contracting State or pertains to a fixed base available in that other State to a resident of the firstmentioned State for the purpose of performing independent personal services, including income, profits or gains from the alienation of that permanent establishment (alone or with the whole enterprise) or of that fixed base, may be taxed in that other State.
4
Income, profits or gains from the alienation of ships or aircraft operated in international traffic, or property other than immovable (real) property pertaining to the operation of such ships or aircraft, shall be taxable only in the Contracting State in which the enterprise alienating those ships, aircraft or property is a resident.
5
Nothing in this Agreement affects the application of a law of a Contracting State relating to the taxation of gains of a capital nature derived from the alienation of any property (including shares or other rights of a company) other than that to which any of the preceding paragraphs of this Article apply.
6
In this Article, the term " immovable (real) property " has the same meaning as it has in paragraph 2 of Article 6.
7
The situation of immovable (real) property shall be determined for the purposes of this Article in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 6.
8
An individual who elects, under the taxation law of a Contracting State, to defer taxation on income, profits or gains relating to property which would otherwise be taxed in that State upon the individual ceasing to be a resident of that State for the purposes of its tax, shall, if the individual is a resident of the other Contracting State, be taxable on income, profits or gains from the subsequent alienation of that property only in that other Contracting State.
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