Pakistan
AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIK OF INDONESIA
AND
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN
FOR
THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE
PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME
This Agreement shall apply to
persons who are resident of one or both of the Contracting States.
1. This Agreement shall apply to taxes on income imposed on
behalf of a Contracting State or of its political sub-divisions or local
authorities, irrespective of the manner in which they are levied.
2. There shall be regarded as taxes on income all taxes imposed
on total income or on elements of income including taxes on gains from the
alienation of movable property, taxes on the total amounts of wages or salaries
paid by enterprises, as well as taxes on capital appreciation.
3. The existing taxes to which the Agreement shall apply are :
(a) in Pakistan :
(i) the income tax;
(ii) the super tax; and
(iii) the surcharge,
(hereinafter
referred to as "Pakistan tax")
(b) in Indonesia :
the
income tax (pajak-penghasilan),
(hereinafter
referred to as "Indonesian tax").
4. This Agreement shall also apply to any identical or
substantially similar taxes (including surcharge in Indonesia) which are
imposed after the date of signature of this Agreement in addition to, or in
place of, the existing taxes referred to in paragraph 3. The competent
authorities of the Contracting States shall notify each other of any
substantial changes which have been made in their respective taxation laws within
a reasonable period of time after such changes.
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Article 3
GENERAL DEFINITIONS
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1. For the purposes of this Agreement, unless the context
otherwise requires :
(a) the term "Pakistan" used in a geographical sense
means Pakistan as defined in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of
Pakistan and includes any area outside the territorial waters of Pakistan which
under the laws of Pakistan and international law is an area within which
Pakistan exercises sovereign rights and exclusive jurisdiction with respect to
the natural resources of the sea-bed and sub-soil and superjacent waters;
(b) the term "Indonesia" comprises the territory of the
Republic of Indonesia as defined in its laws and the adjacent areas over which
the Republic of Indonesia has sovereign rights or jurisdiction in accordance
with the provisions of the United Nations convention on the law of the Sea,
1982;
(c) the terms "a Contracting State" and "the other
Contracting State" mean Pakistan or Indonesia, as the context requires;
(d) the term "tax" means Pakistani tax or Indonesian
tax, as the context requires;
(e) the term "person" includes an individual, a company
and any other body of persons;
(f) the term "company" means any body corporate or any
entity which is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes;
(g) the terms "enterprise of a Contracting State" and
"enterprise of the other Contracting State" mean, respectively, an
enterprise carried on by a resident of a Contracting State and an enterprise
carried on by a resident of the other Contracting State;
(h) the term "national" means all individuals having
the nationality of a Contracting State and all legal persons, partnerships and
other bodies of persons deriving their status as such from the law in force in
a Contracting State;
(i) the term "international traffic" means any
transport by a ship or aircraft operated by an enterprise of a Contracting
State, except when the ship or aircraft is operated solely between places in
the other Contracting State;
(j) the term "competent authority" means, in the case
of Pakistan, the Central Board of Revenue or its authorised representative, in
the case of Indonesia, the Minister of Finance or his authorised
representative.
2. As regards the application of this Agreement by a
Contracting State, any term not defined therein shall, unless the context
otherwise requires, have the meaning which it has under the laws of the
Contracting State concerning the taxes to which this Agreement applies.
1. For the purpose of this Agreement, the term "resident of
a Contracting State" means any person who, under the laws of that
Contracting State, is liable to tax therein by reason of his domicile,
residence, place of effective management or any other criterion of a similar
nature. But this term does not include any person who is liable to tax in that
State in respect only of income from sources in that State.
2. Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1, an
individual is a resident of both Contracting States, then his status shall be
determined as follows:
(a) he shall be deemed to be a resident of the
Contracting State in which he has a permanent home available to him; if he has
a permanent home available to him in both Contracting States, he shall be
deemed to be a resident of the Contracting State with which his personal and
economic relations are closer (centre of vital interests);
(b) if the State in which he has his centre of
vital interests cannot be determined, or if he has not a permanent home
available to him in either Contracting State, he shall be deemed to be a
resident of the State in which he has an habitual abode;
(c) if he has an habitual abode in both
Contracting States or in neither of them, the competent authorities of the
Contracting States shall settle the question by mutual agreement.
3. Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1, a person
other than an individual is a resident of both Contracting States, then it
shall be deemed to be a resident of the Contracting State in which the place of
effective management of its business is situated. However, where the place of
effective management of the business of such person cannot be determined, then
the competent authorities of the Contracting States shall determine by mutual agreement
the State of which the said person shall be deemed to be a resident for the
purposes of this Agreement.
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Article 5
PERMANENT ESTABLISHMENT
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1. For the purposes of this Agreement, the term "permanent
establishment" means a fixed place of business through which the business
of an enterprise is wholly or partly carried on.
2. The term "permanent establishment" means especially:
(a) a place of management;
(b) a branch;
(c) an office;
(d) a factory;
(e) a workshop;
(f) a mine, an oil or gas well, a quarry or
any other place of extraction of natural resources;
(g) a warehouse;
(h) a permanent sales exhibition; and
(i) premises for receiving and soliciting
orders.
3. The term "permanent establishment" likewise encompasses
a building site, a construction, assembly or installation project or
supervisory activities in connection therewith, but only where such site,
project or activities continue for a period of more than three months.
4. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 to 3, the term
"permanent establishment" shall be deemed not to include:
(a) the use of facilities, solely for the
purpose of storage or display of goods or merchandise belonging to the
enterprise;
(b) the maintenance of a stock of goods or
merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of storage or
display;
(c) the maintenance of a stock of goods or
merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of processing by
another enterprise;
(d) the maintenance of a fixed place of
business solely for the purpose of purchasing goods or merchandise or of
collecting information, for the enterprise;
(e) the maintenance of a fixed place of
business solely for the purpose of advertising, for the supply of information or
for similar activities which have a preparatory or auxiliary character, for the
enterprise and which are performed free of charge and not for the purpose of
profits.
5. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2, where a
person - other than an agent of an independent status to whom paragraph 7
applies - is acting in a Contracting State on behalf of an enterprise of the
other Contracting State, that enterprise shall be deemed to have a permanent
establishment in the first-mentioned Contracting State in respect of any
activities which that person undertakes for the enterprise, if such a person:
(a) has and habitually exercises in that State
an authority to conclude contracts in the name of the enterprise, unless the
activities of such person are limited to those mentioned in paragraph 4 which,
if exercised through a fixed place of business, would not make this fixed place
of business a permanent establishment under the provisions of this paragraph;
or
(b) has no such authority, but habitually maintains
in the first- mentioned State a stock of goods or merchandise from which he
regularly delivers goods or merchandise on behalf of the enterprise.
6. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Article, an
insurance enterprise of a Contracting State shall, except in regard to
re-insurance, be deemed to have a permanent establishment in the other
Contracting State if it collects premiums in the territory of that other State
or insures risks situated therein through a person other than an agent of an
independent status to whom paragraph 7 applies.
7. An enterprise of a Contracting State shall not be deemed to
have a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State merely because it
carries on business in that other Contracting State through a broker, general
commission agent or any other agent of an independent status, provided that
such persons are acting in the ordinary course of their business. However, when
the activities of such an agent are devoted wholly or almost wholly on behalf
of that enterprise, he will not be considered an agent of an independent status
within the meaning of this paragraph.
8. The fact that a company which is a resident of a Contracting
State controls or is controlled by a company which is a resident of the other
Contracting State, or which carries on business in that other State (whether
through a permanent establishment or otherwise), shall not of itself constitute
either company a permanent establishment of the other.
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Article 6
INCOME FROM IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
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1. Income derived by a resident of a Contracting State from
immovable property (including income from agriculture and forestry) situated in
the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other Contracting State.
2. The term "immovable property" shall have the meaning
which it has under the law of the Contracting State in which the property in
question is situated. The term shall in any case include property accessory to
immovable property, livestock and equipment used in agriculture and forestry,
rights to which the provisions of general law respecting landed property apply,
usufruct of immovable property and rights to variable or fixed payments as
consideration for the working of, or the right to work, mineral deposits,
sources and other natural resources. Ships and aircraft shall not be regarded
as immovable property.
3. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall apply to income derived
from the direct use, letting, or use in any other form of immovable
property.
4. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 3 shall also apply to the
income from immovable property of an enterprise and to income from immovable
property used for the performance of independent personal services.
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Article 7
BUSINESS PROFITS
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1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be
taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the
other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If
the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise
may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to:
(a) that permanent establishment;
(b) sales in that other State of goods or
merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold through that permanent
establishment;or
(c) other business activities carried on in
that other State of the same or similar kind as those effected through that
permanent establishment.
2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise
of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State
through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each
Contracting State be attributable to that permanent establishment the profits
which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate
enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar
conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is
a permanent establishment.
3. (a) In the
determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be
allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the
permanent establishment including only those executive and general
administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the
permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere, which are allowed under the
provisions of the domestic law of the Contracting State in which the permanent
establishment is situated.
(b) However, no such deduction shall be allowed
in respect of amounts, if any, paid (otherwise than towards reimbursement of
actual expenses) by the permanent establishment to the head office of the
enterprise or any of its other offices, by way of royalties, fees or other
similar payments in return for the use of patents or other rights, or by way of
commission, for specific services performed or for management, or, except in
the case of a banking enterprise, by way of interest on moneys lent to the
permanent establishment. Likewise, no account shall be taken, in the
determination of the profits of a permanent establishment, for amounts charged
(otherwise than towards reimbursement of actual expenses), by the permanent
establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its other offices,
by way of royalties, fees or other similar payments in return for the use of
patents or other rights, or by way of commission for specific services
performed or for management, or, except in the case of a banking enterprise by
way of interest on money lent to the head office of the enterprise or any of
its other offices.
4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to
determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establishment on the
basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various
parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from
determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be
customary. The method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the
result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this
Article.
5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by
reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or
merchandise for the head office of the enterprise.
6. For the purposes of paragraphs 1 to 5, the profits to be
attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same
method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the
contrary.
7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with
separately in other Articles of this Agreement, then the provisions of those
Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.
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Article 8
SHIPPING AND AIR TRANSPORT
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1. Profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State from the
operation of aircraft in international traffic should be taxable in that
State.
2. Profits from sources with a Contracting State derived by an
enterprise of the other Contracting State from operation of ships may be taxed
in the first-mentioned State in accordance with its domestic law. The profits
from sources with a Contracting State shall consist of the amount paid or
payable to, or received or deemed to be received, by the enterprise of the other
Contracting State, or on its behalf, on account of carriage of passengers,
livestock, mail or goods shipped at any port of the first-mentioned
State.
3. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall also apply to profits from
the participation in a pool, a joint business or an international operating
agency.
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Article 9
ASSOCIATED ENTERPRISES
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1. Where :
(a) an enterprise of a Contracting State
participates directly or indirectly in the management, control or capital of an
enterprise of the other Contracting State; or
(b) the same persons participate directly or
indirectly in the management, control or capital of an enterprise of a
Contracting State and an enterprise of the other Contracting State,
and
in either case conditions are made or imposed between the two enterprises in
their commercial or financial relations which differ from those which would be
made between independent enterprises, then any profits which would, but for
those conditions have accrued to one of the enterprises, but, by reason of
those conditions, have not so accrued, may be included in the profits of that
enterprise and taxed accordingly.
2. Where a Contracting State includes in the profits of an
enterprise of that other Contracting State and taxes accordingly profits on
which an enterprise of the other Contracting State has been charged to tax in
that other State, and the profits so included are profits which would have
accrued to the enterprise of the first- mentioned State if the conditions made
between the two enterprises had been those which would have been made between
independent enterprises, then that other Contracting State shall make an
appropriate adjustment to the amount of tax charged thereon on those profits.
In determining such adjustment, due regard shall be had to the other provisions
of this Agreement and the competent authorities of the Contracting States
shall, if necessary, consult each other.
1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a
Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in
that other Contracting State.
2. However, such dividends may also be taxed in the Contracting
State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident and according to
the laws of that Contracting State, but if the recipient is the beneficial
owner of the dividends the tax so charged shall not exceed:
(a) 10% of the gross amount of the dividends if
the recipient is a company which owns directly at least 25% of the capital of
the company paying the dividends;
(b) 15% of the gross amount of the dividends in
all other cases.
The
provisions of this paragraph shall not affect the taxation of the company in
respect of the profits out which the dividends are paid.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means
income from shares and other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in
profits, as well as income from other corporate rights which is subjected to
the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the laws of the State of
which the company making the distribution is a resident.
4. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the
beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting State,
carries on business in the other Contracting State of which the company paying
the dividends is a resident, through a permanent establishment situated
therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a
fixed base situated therein, and the holding in respect of Article 7 or Article
15, as the case may be, shall apply.
5. Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State
derives profits or income from the other Contracting State, that other
Contracting State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid by the company,
except insofar as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other
Contracting State or insofar as the holding in respect of which the dividends
are paid is effectively connected with a permanent establishment or a fixed
base situated in that other Contracting State, nor subject the companys
undistributed profits to a tax on the companys undistributed profits, even if
the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of
profits or income arising in such other Contracting State.
6. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement where a
company which is a resident of a Contracting State has a permanent
establishment in the other Contracting State, the profits of the permanent
establishment may be subjected to an additional tax in that other State in
accordance with its law, but the additional tax so charged shall not exceed 10%
of the amount of such profits after deducting therefrom income tax and other
taxes on income imposed thereon in that other State.
1. Interest arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resident
of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other Contracting State.
2. However, such interest may also be taxed in the Contracting
State in which it arises, and according to the laws of that Contracting State,
but if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the interest the tax so charged
shall not exceed 15% of the gross amount of the interest.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2, interest
arising in a Contracting State shall be exempt from tax in that State if it is
derived and beneficially owned by:
(i) the Government of the other Contracting
State or subject to the agreement of the competent authorities, a local
authority thereof or any agency or instrumentality of that State;
(ii) the Central Bank of the other Contracting
State.
4. The term "interest" as used in this Article means
income from debt-claims of every kind including interest on deferred payment
sales, whether or not secured by a mortgage and whether or not carrying a right
to participate in the debtors profits. And in particular, income from
Government securities and income from bonds or debentures, including premiums
and prizes attaching to such securities, bonds or debentures. Penalty charges
for late payment shall not be regarded as interest for the purpose of this
Article.
5. The provisions of paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall not apply if the
beneficial owner of the interest, being a resident of a Contracting State,
carries on business in the other Contracting State in which the interest
arises, through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that
other Contracting State independent personal services from a fixed base
situated therein, and the debt- claim in respect of which the interest is paid
is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In
such case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 15, as the case may be, shall
apply.
6. Interest shall be deemed to arise in a Contracting State when
the payer is the Government of that Contracting State, a local authority
thereof or a resident of that Contracting State. Where, however, the person
paying the interest, whether he is a resident of a Contracting State or not,
has in a Contracting State a permanent establishment or a fixed base in
connection with which the indebtedness on which the interest is paid was
incurred, and such interest is borne by such permanent establishment or fixed
base, then such interest shall be deemed to arise in the Contracting State in
which the permanent establishment or fixed base is situated.
7. Where by reason of a special relationship between the payer
and the beneficial owner or between both of them and some other person, the
amount of the interest, having regard to the debt-claim for which it is paid,
exceeds the amount which would have been agreed upon by the payer and the
beneficial owner in the absence of such relationship, the provisions of this
Article shall apply only to the last-mentioned amount. In that case, the excess
part of the payments shall remain taxable according to the laws of each
Contracting State, due regard being had to the other provisions of this
Agreement.
1. Royalties arising in a Contracting State and paid to a
resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.
2. However, such royalties may also be taxed in the Contracting
State in which they arise, and according to the laws of that State, but if the
recipient is the beneficial owner of the royalties the tax so charged shall not
exceed 15% of the gross amount of the royalties.
3. The term "royalties" as used in this Article means
payments of any kind received as a consideration for the use of, or the right
to use, any copyright of literary, artistic or scientific work including
cinematograph films or films or tapes for radio or television broadcasting, any
patent, know-how, trade mark, design or model, plan, secret formula or process,
or for the use of, or the right to use, industrial, commercial or scientific
equipment, or for information concerning industrial, commercial or scientific
experience.
4. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the
beneficial owner of the royalties, being a resident of a Contracting State in
which the royalties arise, through a permanent establishment situated therein,
or performs in that other Contracting State independent personal services from
a fixed base situated therein, and the right or property in respect of which
the royalties are paid is effectively connected with such permanent
establishment or fixed base. In such case, the provisions of Article 7 or
Article 15, as the case may be, shall apply.
5. Royalties shall be deemed to arise in a Contracting State when
the payer is the Government of that Contracting State, a local authority
thereof or a resident of that Contracting State. Where the person paying the
royalties, whether he is a resident of a Contracting State or not, has in a
Contracting State a permanent establishment or a fixed base in connection with
which the liability to pay the royalties was incurred, and such royalties are
borne by such permanent establishment or fixed base, then such royalties shall
be deemed to arise in the Contracting State in which the permanent
establishment or fixed base is situated.
6. Where, by reason of a special relationship between the payer
and the beneficial owner or between both of them and some other person, the
amount of the royalties, having regard to the use, right or information for
which they are paid, exceeds the amount which would have been agreed upon by
the payer and the beneficial owner in the absence of such relationship, the
provisions of this Article shall apply only to the last-mentioned amount. In
such case, the excess part of the payments shall remain taxable according to
the laws of each Contracting State, due regard being had to the other
provisions of this Agreement.
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Article 13
FEES FOR TECHNICAL SERVICES
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1. Fees for technical services arising in a Contracting State and
paid to an enterprise of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other
State.
2. However, such fees for technical services may also be taxed in
the Contracting State in which they arise and according to the laws of that
State, but if the recipient is the beneficial owner thereof, the tax so charged
shall not exceed 15% of the gross amount of the fees.
3. The term "fees for technical services" as used in
this Article means any consideration (including any lump sum consideration) for
the provision of or rendering of any managerial, technical or consultancy
services (including the provision by the enterprise of the services of
technical or other personnel) but does not include consideration for any
activities mentioned in sub-para (3) of paragraph 5 or consideration which
would be income falling under Article 15 of the Agreement.
4. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 do not apply if the
beneficial owner of the fees for technical services, being a resident of a
Contracting State, carries on business in the other Contracting State in which
the fees for technical services rise, through a permanent establishment
situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services
from a fixed base situated therein and the contract in respect of which the
fees for technical services are paid is effectively connected with:
(a) such permanent establishment or fixed base,
or
(b) business activities referred to under (c)
of paragraph (1) of Article 7.
In
such cases the provisions of Article 7 or Article 15, as the case may be, shall
apply.
5. Fees for technical services shall be deemed to arise in a
Contracting State when the payer is that State itself, a political
sub-division, a local authority or a resident of that State, and the services
are rendered for the said payer or the services are rendered in that State.
Where, however, the person paying the fees for technical service whether he is
a resident of a Contracting State or not, has in a Contracting State a
permanent establishment or a fixed base in connection with which the obligation
to make the payments was incurred, and the payments are borne by such permanent
establishment, then such fees for technical services shall be deemed to arise
in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated.
6. Where by reason of a special relationship between the payer
and the beneficial owner or between both of them and some other person, the
amount of the fees for technical services exceeds the amount which would have
been paid in the absence of such relationship, the provisions of this Article
shall apply only to the last-mentioned amount. In such case, the excess part of
the payments shall remain taxable according to the laws of each Contracting
State, due regard being had to the other provisions of this Agreement.
1. Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the
alienation of immovable property as defined in Article 6 or from the alienation
of shares in a company the assets of which consist principally of such
property, may be taxed in the Contracting State in which the said property is
situated.
2. Gains from the alienation of movable property forming part of
the business property of a permanent establishment which an enterprise of a
Contracting State has in the other Contracting State or of movable property
pertaining to a fixed base available to a resident of a Contracting State in
the other Contracting State for the purpose of performing independent personal
services, including such gains from the alienation of such a permanent
establishment (alone or together with the whole enterprise) or of such a fixed
base, may be taxed in that other Contracting State.
3. Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the
alienation of ships or aircraft operated in international traffic or movable
property pertaining to the operation of such ships or aircraft shall be taxable
only in that State.
4. Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the
alienation of any property other than that referred to in paragraphs 1 to 3 and
arising in the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other Contracting
State.
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Article 15
INDEPENDENT PERSONAL SERVICES
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1. Income derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect
of professional services or other activities of an independent character shall
be taxable only in that State except in one of the following circumstances,
when such income may also be taxed in the other Contracting State:
(a) if he has a fixed base regularly available
to him in the other Contracting State for the purpose of performing his
activities; in that case, only so much of the income as is attributable to that
fixed base may be taxed in that other Contracting State; or
(b) if his stay in the other Contracting State
is for a period or periods amounting to or exceeding in the aggregate 90 days
in any twelve-month period; in that case only so much of the income as is
derived from his activities performed in that other Contracting State may be
taxed in that other Contracting State; or
(c) if the remuneration for his activities in
the other Contracting State is paid by a resident of that Contracting State or
is borne by a permanent establishment or a fixed base situated in that
Contracting State, in that case, only so much of the remuneration as derived
therefrom may be taxed in that other Contracting State.
2. The term "professional services" includes especially
independent scientific, literary, artistic, educational or teaching activities
as well as the independent activities of physicians, lawyers, engineers,
architects, dentists and accountants.
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Article 16
DEPENDENT PERSONAL SERVICES
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1. Subject to the provisions of Articles 17, 19, 20 and 22,
salaries, wages and other similar remuneration derived by a resident of a
Contracting State in respect of an employment shall be taxable only in that
Contracting State unless the employment is exercised in the other Contracting
State. If the employment is so exercised, such remuneration as is derived
therefrom may be taxed in that other Contracting State.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, remuneration
derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of an employment
exercised in the other Contracting State shall be taxable only in the
first-mentioned State, if:
(a) the recipient is present in that other
Contracting State for a period or periods not exceeding in the aggregate 90
days in any twelve-month period concerned; and
(b) the remuneration is paid by, or on behalf
of, an employer who is not a resident of the other Contracting State; and
(c) the remuneration is not borne by a
permanent establishment or a fixed base which the employer has in the other
Contracting State.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this
Article, remuneration derived in respect of an employment exercised aboard a
ship or aircraft operated by an enterprise of a Contracting State in
international traffic shall be taxable only in that State.
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Article 17
DIRECTORS FEES
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1. Directors fees and other similar payments derived by a
resident of a Contracting State in his capacity as a member of the board of
directors or of a similar organ of a company which is a resident of the other
Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.
2. Salaries, wages and other similar remuneration derived by a
resident of a Contracting State in his capacity as an official in a top-level
managerial position of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting
State may be taxed in that other Contracting State.
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Article 18
ARTISTES AND ATHLETES
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1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 15 and 16, income
derived by a resident of a Contracting State as an entertainer, such as a
theatre, motion picture, radio or television artiste, or a musician, or as an
athlete, from personal activities as such exercised in the other Contracting
State, may be taxed in that other Contracting State.
2. Where income in respect of personal activities exercised by an
entertainer or an athlete in his capacity as such accrues not to the
entertainer or athlete himself but to another person, that income may,
notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 7, 15 and 16, be taxed in the
Contracting State in which the activities of the entertainer or athlete are
exercised.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2, income
derived from activities referred to in paragraph 1 performed under a cultural
agreement or arrangement between the Contracting States shall be exempt from
tax in the Contracting State in which the activities are exercised if the visit
to that State is wholly or substantially supported by funds of the other
Contracting State.
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Article 19
PENSIONS AND ANNUITIES
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1. Any pension, other than a pension referred to in paragraph 2
of Article 20, or any annuity derived by a resident of a Contracting State from
sources within the other Contracting State may be taxed only in the
first-mentioned Contracting State.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, pensions paid
out of a pension fund approved by the Government of a Contracting State (or its
authorised Agency) to a resident of the other Contracting State in
consideration of past employment may be taxed in the first-mentioned
State.
3. The term "pension" means a periodic payment made in
consideration of past services or by way of compensation for injuries received
in the course of performance of services.
4. The term "annuity" means a stated sum payable
periodically at stated times during life or during a specific or ascertainable
period of time, under an obligation to make the payments in return for adequate
and full consideration in money or moneys worth. T
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Article 20
GOVERNMENT SERVICE
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1. (a) Remuneration,
other than a pension, paid by a Contracting State or a political subdivision or
a local authority thereof to an individual in respect of services rendered to
that State or sub-division or authority shall be taxable only in that
State.
(b) However, such remuneration shall be taxable
only in the other Contracting State if the services are rendered in that other
Contracting State and the individual is a resident of that other Contracting
State who:
(i) is a national of that other Contracting
State; or
(ii) did not become a resident of that
Contracting State solely for the purpose of rendering the services.
2. (a) Any pension paid
by, or out of funds to which contributions are made by, the Government of a
Contracting State or a local authority thereof to an individual in respect of
services rendered to the Government of that Contracting State or a local
authority thereof shall be taxable only in that Contracting State.
(b) However, such pension shall be taxable only
in the other Contracting State if the individual is a resident of, and a
national of, that other State.
3. The provisions of Articles 16, 17, 18 and 19 shall apply to
remuneration and pensions in respect of services rendered in connection with a
business carried on by the Government of a Contracting State or a local
authority thereof.
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Article 21
TEACHERS AND RESEARCHERS
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1. An individual who is, or immediately before visiting a
Contracting State, was a resident of the other Contracting State and is present
in the first-mentioned Contracting State for the primary purpose of teaching,
giving lectures or conducting research at a university, college, school or
educational institution or scientific research institution accredited by the
Government of the first- mentioned State shall be exempt from tax in the
first-mentioned Contracting State, for a period of two years from the date of
his first arrival in the first-mentioned Contracting State, in respect of
remuneration for such teaching, lectures or research, or income received by him
from sources outside the first-mentioned Contracting State.
2. This Article shall not apply to income from research if such
research is undertaken primarily for the private benefit of a specific person
or persons.
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Article 22
STUDENTS AND TRAINEES
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A student, business apprentice or
trainee who is or was immediately before visiting a Contracting State a
resident of the other Contracting State and who is present in the
first-mentioned State solely for the purpose of his education or training shall
be exempt from tax for a period or periods aggregating to five years from the
date of his arrival in that first-mentioned State on the following payments or
income received or derived by him for the purpose of his maintenance, education
or training:
(a) payments derived from sources outside that Contracting State for
the purpose of his maintenance, education, study, research or training;
(b) grants, scholarships or awards supplied by the Government, or a
scientific, educational, cultural or other tax-exempt organization; and
(c) income not exceeding a sum of US$ 1,200 per annum or its
equivalent in Pakistani or Indonesian currency, as the case may be, derived
from personal services performed in that Contracting State.
1. Items of income of a resident of a Contracting State, wherever
arising, not dealt with in the foregoing Articles of this Agreement shall be
taxable only in that Contracting State.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to income, other
than income from immovable property as defined in paragraph 2 of Article 6, if
the recipient of such income, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries
on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment
situated therein, or performs in that other Contracting State independent
personal services from a fixed base situated therein, and the right or property
in respect of which the income is paid is effectively connected with such
permanent establishment or fixed base.
In such case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 15, as the case may be,
shall apply.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2, items of
income of a resident of a Contracting State not dealt with in the foregoing
Articles of this Agreement and arising in the other Contracting State may be
taxed in that other Contracting State.
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Article 24
METHODS FOR ELIMINATION OF DOUBLE TAXATION
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1. In Pakistan double taxation shall be eliminated as follows :
Subject
to the provisions of the laws of Pakistan, regarding the allowance as a credit
against Pakistan tax, the amount of Indonesian tax payable, under the laws of
Indonesia and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, whether
directly or by deduction, by a resident of Pakistan, in respect of income from
sources within Indonesia which has been subject to a tax both in Pakistan and
Indonesia shall be allowed as a credit against the Pakistan tax payable in
respect of such income but in an amount not exceeding that proportion of
Pakistan tax which such income bears to the entire income chargeable to
Pakistan tax.
2. In Indonesia, double taxation shall be eliminated as follows :
Where
a resident of Indonesia derives income from Pakistan and such income may be
taxed in Pakistan in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the
amount of Pakistan tax payable in respect of the income shall be allowed as a
credit against the Indonesian tax imposed on that resident. The amount of
credit, however, shall not exceed that part of the Indonesian tax which is
appropriate to such income.
3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing paragraphs
1 and 2, where any profits, income or chargeable gains are not subject to tax
or are taxed at a reduced rate in one of the Contracting States by virtue of
any exemption or concession allowed under the laws of that State or in
accordance with this Agreement and the same profits, income or chargeable gains
are subject to tax in the other Contracting State, credit shall be allowed in
the later mentioned State for the whole of the tax, which would have been
payable on the said profits, income or chargeable gains had the same profits,
income or chargeable gains not been exempted from tax or had it not been taxed at
a reduced rate in the first-mentioned State.
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Article 25
NON-DISCRIMINATION
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1. Nationals of a Contracting State shall not be subjected in the
other Contracting State to any taxation or any requirement connected therewith,
which is other or more burdensome than the taxation and connected requirements
to which nationals of that other Contracting State in the same circumstances
are or may be subjected. The provisions of this paragraph shall,
notwithstanding the provisions of Article 1, also apply to persons who are not
residents of one or both of the Contracting States.
2. The taxation on a permanent establishment which an enterprise
of a Contracting State has in the other Contracting State shall not be less
favourably levied in that other Contracting State than the taxation levied on
enterprises of that other Contracting State carrying on the same activities.
The provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed as obliging a
Contracting State to grant to residents of the other Contracting State any
personal allowances, reliefs and reductions for taxation purposes on account of
civil status or family responsibilities which it grants to its own
resident.
3. Except where the provisions of Article 9, paragraph 7 of
Article 11, or paragraph 6 of Article 12, apply, interest, royalties and other
disbursements paid by an enterprise of a Contracting State to a resident of the
other Contracting State shall, for the purpose of determining the taxable
profits of such enterprise, be deductible under the same conditions as if they
had been paid to a resident of the first-mentioned State.
4. Enterprises of a Contracting State, the capital of which is
wholly or partly owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by one or more
residents of the other Contracting State, shall not be subjected in the
first-mentioned State to any taxation or any requirement connected therewith
which is other or more burdensome than the taxation and connected requirements
to which other similar enterprises of the first-mentioned State are or may be
subjected.
5. Nothing contained in the preceding paragraphs of this Article
shall be construed:
(i) as obliging either Contracting State, to
grant to persons notresident in its territory those personal allowances and
reliefs for tax purposes which are by law available only to persons who are so
resident;
(ii) as affecting any provision of the law of
either Contracting State regarding the imposition of tax on a non-resident
person; or
(iii) as affecting any provision of the law of
Pakistan regarding the grant of rebate of tax to companies fulfilling specific
requirements regarding the declaration and payment of dividends.
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Article 26
MUTUAL AGREEMENT PROCEDURE
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1. Where a person considers that the actions of one or both of
the Contracting States result or will result for him in taxation not in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, he may, irrespective of the
remedies provided by the domestic law of those States, present his case to the
competent authority of the Contracting State of which he is a resident or, if
his case comes under paragraph 1 of Article 24, to that of the Contracting
State of which he is a national. The case must be presented within two
years from the first notification of the action resulting in taxation not in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
2. The competent authority shall endeavour, if the objection
appears to it to be justified and if it is not itself able to arrive at a
satisfactory solution, to resolve the case by mutual agreement with the
competent authority of the other Contracting State, with a view to the
avoidance of taxation which is not in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement. Any agreement reached shall be implemented notwithstanding any time
limits in the domestic law of the Contracting State.
3. The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall
endeavour to resolve by mutual agreement any difficulties or doubts arising as
to the interpretation or application of the Agreement. They may also consult
together for the elimination of double taxation in cases not provided for in
this Agreement.
4. The competent authorities of the Contracting States may
communicate with each other directly for the purpose of reaching an agreement
in the sense of the preceding paragraphs. The competent authorities shall
through consultations develop appropriate bilateral procedures, conditions,
methods and techniques for the implementation of the mutual agreement procedure
provided for in this Article.
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Article 27
EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
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1. The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall
exchange such information as is necessary for carrying out the provisions of
this Agreement or of the domestic laws of the Contracting States concerning
taxes covered by the Agreement insofar as the taxation thereunder is not
contrary to this Agreement, in particular for the prevention of evasion of such
taxes. The exchange of information is not restricted by Article 1. Any
information received by a Contracting State shall be treated as secret and
shall be disclosed only to persons or authorities (including courts and
administrative bodies) involved in the assessment or collection of, the
enforcement or prosecution in respect of, or the determination of appeals in
relation to, the taxes which are covered by the Agreement. Such persons or
authorities shall use the information only for such purposes. They may disclose
the information in public court proceedings or in judicial decisions.
2. In no case shall the provisions of paragraph 1 be construed so
as to impose on a Contracting State the obligation:
(a) to carry out administrative measures at
variance with the laws and administrative practice of that or of the other
Contracting State;
(b) to supply information which is not
obtainable under the laws or in the normal course of the administration of that
or of the other Contracting State;
(c) to supply information which would disclose
any trade, business, industrial, commercial or professional secret or trade
process, or information, the disclosure of which would be contrary to public
policy (ordre public).
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Article 28
DIPLOMATIC AGENTS AND CONSULAR OFFICERS
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Nothing in this Agreement shall
affect the fiscal privileges of diplomatic agents or consular officers under
the general rules of international law or under the provisions of special
agreements.
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Article 29
ENTRY INTO FORCE
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1. This Agreement shall enter into force on the later of the
dates on which the respective Governments may notify each other in writing that
the formalities constitutionally required in their respective States have been
complied with.
2. This Agreement shall have effect :
(a) In Pakistan
(i) in respect of tax withheld at the source
on amounts paid or credited to non-residents on or after the first day of July
of the year in which the Agreement enters into force; and
(ii) in respect of other taxes for assessment
years beginning on or after the first day of July in which the Agreement enters
into force;
(b) In Indonesia :
(i) in respect of tax withheld at the source
on or after the first day of January of the year in which the Agreement enters
into force; and
(ii) in respect of other taxes for assessment
years beginning on or after the first day of January of the year in which the
Agreement enters into force.
This Agreement shall continue in
effect indefinitely but either of the Contracting States may, on or before the
thirtieth day of June in any calendar year beginning after the expiration of a
period of five years from the date of its entry into force, give written notice
of termination to the other Contracting State through the diplomatic channel.
In such event this Agreement shall cease to have effect as respects income
derived during the taxable years beginning on or after the first day of January
in the calender year next following that in which the notice of termination is
given.
Done at Islamabad on the Seventh
day of October, 1990 in the English language.
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FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
(KARJADI SINDUNEGORO)
Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary
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FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN
(AHADULLAH AKMAL)
Chairman Central Board of
Revenue
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