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.
Income or profits derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of real property situated in the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State. The meaning of the term " real property " , and its situation, shall be determined in accordance with Article 6.
2
Income or profits from the alienation of property, other than 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 or profits 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.
3
Income or profits from the alienation of ships or aircraft operated by an enterprise of a Contracting State in international traffic, or of property (other than real property) pertaining to the operation of those ships or aircraft, shall be taxable only in that State.
4
Income or profits 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.
5
Nothing in this Agreement affects the application of a law of a Contracting State relating to the taxation of capital gains derived from the alienation of any property other than that to which any of the preceding paragraphs of this Article apply.
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