Australian Tax Treaties

Fijian Agreement  

AGREEMENT BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND FIJI FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME  

ARTICLE 25   Elimination of Double Taxation  

(1)    
Subject to any provisions of the law of Fiji which may from time to time be in force and which relate to the allowance of a credit against Fiji tax of tax paid in a country outside Fiji (which shall not affect the general principle hereof), Australian tax paid under the law of Australia and consistently with this Agreement, whether directly or by deduction, in respect of income derived by a resident of Fiji from sources in Australia shall be allowed as a credit against Fiji tax payable in respect of that income.

(2)    

(a) Subject to the provisions of the law of Australia from time to time in force which relate to the allowance of a credit against Australian tax of tax paid in a country outside Australia (which shall not affect the general principle hereof), Fiji tax paid under the law of Fiji and in accordance with this Agreement, whether directly or by deduction, in respect of income derived by a person who is a resident of Australia from sources in Fiji shall be allowed as a credit against Australian tax payable in respect of that income.

(b) Where a company which is a resident of Fiji and is not a resident of Australia for the purposes of Australian tax pays a dividend to a company which is a resident of Australia and which controls directly or indirectly not less than 10 per cent of the voting power of the firstmentioned company, the credit referred to in paragraph (1) shall include the tax paid by the firstmentioned company in respect of that portion of its profits out of which the dividend is paid.

(3)    
For the purposes of paragraph (2), Fiji tax paid shall include an amount equivalent to the amount of any tax forgone which, under the law of Fiji and in accordance with this Agreement, would have been payable as tax on income but for an exemption from, or a reduction of, tax on that income resulting from the operation of:

(a)

(i) subsection 8(1) of the Hotels Aid Act 1964 (Cap. 215); or

(ii) paragraph 8(6)(c), paragraph 9(3)(h), subsection 10A(6), paragraph (a), (b), (d) or (f) of subsection 16(2) or subsection 16(4) or (5) of the Income Tax Act 1974,

insofar as those provisions were in force on, and have not been modified since, the date of signature of this Agreement, or have been modified only in minor respects so as not to affect their general character; or

(b) any other provision which may subsequently be made granting an exemption from or reduction of tax which the authorised representatives of the Governments of Australia and Fiji agree in writing to be of a substantially similar character, provided that such provisions are not modified thereafter or are modified only in minor respects so as not to affect their general character.

(4)    
The provisions of paragraph (3) shall apply only in relation to income derived in any of the first five years of income in relation to which this Agreement has effect by virtue of subparagraph (a)(ii) of Article 29 and in any later year of income that may be agreed in an exchange of letters for this purpose by the authorised representatives of the Governments of Australia and Fiji.