Australian Tax Treaties
The Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (the MLI) has modified the application of this tax treaty. A synthesised text of the MLI and this tax treaty is available to facilitate the understanding of how the MLI modifies this tax treaty.
The provisions of this Article shall apply notwithstanding any other provision of this Convention.
(2)
A person who is a resident of a Contracting State and carries on activities offshore in the other Contracting State in connection with the exploration or exploitation of the seabed or subsoil or their natural resources situated in that other State shall, subject to paragraph 3 of this Article, be deemed in relation to those activities to be carrying on business in that other State through a permanent establishment situated therein.
(3)
The provisions of paragraph 2 shall not apply where the activities are carried on in a Contracting State for a period or periods not exceeding 30 days in the aggregate in any twelve month period commencing or ending in the year of income of that State. However, for the purposes of this paragraph:
(a) activities carried on by an enterprise associated with another enterprise shall be regarded as carried on by the enterprise with which it is associated if the activities in question are substantially the same as those carried on by the last-mentioned enterprise;
(b) the period during which two or more associated enterprises are carrying on concurrent activities will be counted only once for the purpose of determining the duration of activities; and
(c) an enterprise shall be deemed to be associated with another enterprise if:
(i) one is controlled directly or indirectly by the other; or
(ii) both are controlled directly or indirectly by the same third person or persons.
(4)
Salaries, wages and other similar remuneration derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of an employment connected with the exploration or exploitation of the seabed or subsoil or their natural resources situated in the other Contracting State may, to the extent that the employment is exercised offshore in that other State, be taxed in that other State. However, such remuneration shall be taxable only in the first-mentioned State if the employment is exercised offshore for an employer who is not a resident of the other State and provided that the employment is carried on for a period or periods not exceeding in the aggregate 30 days in any twelve month period commencing or ending in the year of income of that other State.
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