Australian Tax Treaties

Taipei Agreement  

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE AUSTRALIAN COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OFFICE AND THE TAIPEI ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL OFFICE CONCERNING THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME  

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ARTICLE 4   Residence  

1.    
For the purposes of this Agreement, a person is a resident of a territory if the person is a resident of that territory for the purposes of its tax.

2.    
A person is not a resident of the territory in which the taxation law administered by the Australian Taxation Office is applied for the purposes of this Agreement if the person is liable to tax in that territory in respect only of income from sources in that territory.

3.    
Where by reason of the preceding provisions of this Article a person, being an individual, is a resident of both territories, then the status of the person shall be determined in accordance with the following rules:


(a) the person shall be deemed to be a resident solely of the territory in which a permanent home is available to the person;


(b) if a permanent home is available to the person in both territories, or in neither of them, the person shall be deemed to be a resident solely of the territory in which the person has an habitual abode;


(c) if the person has an habitual abode in both territories or in neither of them, the person shall be deemed to be a resident solely of the territory with which the person ' s economic and personal relations are closer.

4.    
Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 a person other than an individual is a resident of both territories, then it shall be deemed to be a resident solely of the territory in which its place of incorporation is situated.

 

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