Canada
CONVENTION
BETWEEN
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
AND
THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
FOR
THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF
FISCAL
EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME
The Government of the Republic of
Indonesia and the Government of Canada,
[MODIFIED
by paragraph 1 of Article 6 of the MLI] [Desiring to conclude a Convention for the avoidance of
double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on
income and on capital,]
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The following paragraph 1 of
Article 6 of the MLI is included in addition to the text referring to an
intent to eliminate double taxation in the preamble of this Agreement:
ARTICLE
6 OF THE MLI  PURPOSE OF A COVERED TAX
AGREEMENT
Intending to eliminate double
taxation with respect to the taxes covered by the Convention without creating
opportunities for non-taxation or reduced taxation through tax evasion or
avoidance (including through treaty-shopping arrangements aimed at obtaining
reliefs provided in the Convention for the indirect benefit of residents of
third jurisdictions),
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Have agreed as follows:
CHAPTER
I
SCOPE OF THE CONVENTION
This Convention shall apply to
persons who are residents of one or both of the Contracting States.
1. This Convention shall apply to taxes on income imposed on
behalf of each Contracting State, 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 or immovable property, taxes on the total amount of wages
or salaries paid by enterprises, as well as taxes on capital appreciation.
3. The existing taxes to which the Convention shall apply are, in
particular :
(a) in the case of Indonesia :
-- the income tax imposed under
the Undang-undang Pajak Penghasilan 1984 (Law number 7 of 1983 as amended)
(hereinafter
referred to as "Indonesian tax").
(b) in the case of Canada :
the
income taxes imposed by the Government of Canada,
(hereinafter
referred to as " Canadian tax")
4. The Convention shall also apply to any identical or
substantially similar taxes on income which are imposed by either Contracting
State after the date of signature of this Convention in addition to, or in
place of, the existing taxes. The competent authorities of the Contracting
States shall notify each other of any substantial changes which have been made
to their respective taxation laws.
CHAPTER
II
DEFINITIONS
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Article 3
GENERAL DEFINITIONS
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1. In this Convention, unless the context otherwise requires :
(a) (i) the term
"Canada", used in a geographical sense, means the territory of
Canada, including:
(A) any area beyond the territorial seas of
Canada which, in accordance with international law and the laws of Canada is an
area within which Canada may exercise rights with respect to the seabed and
subsoil and their natural resources;
(B) the seas and airspace above any area
referred to in subparagraph (A) in respect of any activity carried on in
connection with the exploration for or the exploitation of the natural
resources referred to therein;
(ii)
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 international law;
(b) the terms "a Contracting State" and "the other
Contracting State" mean, as the context requires, Canada or Indonesia;
(c) the term "person" includes an individual, a company, a
partnership, an estate, a trust or any other body of persons;
(d) the term "company" means any body corporate or any
other entity which is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes; in French,
the term "societe" also means a "corporation" within the
meaning of Canadian law;
(e) 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;
(f) the term "competent authority" means:
(i)
in the case of Canada, the Minister
of National Revenue or his duly authorized representative;
(ii)
in the case of Indonesia, the
Minister of Finance or his duly authorized representative;
(g) the term "tax" means Canadian or Indonesian tax, as
the context requires;
(h) the term "national" means:
(i)
any individual possessing the
nationality of a Contracting State;
(ii)
any legal person, partnership and
association deriving its 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
where the operation of the ship or aircraft is solely between places in the
other Contracting State.
2. As regards the application of the Convention by a Contracting
State any term not otherwise defined shall, unless the context otherwise
requires, have the meaning which it has under the laws of that Contracting
State relating to the taxes which are the subject of the Convention.
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Article 4
FISCAL DOMICILE
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1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "resident
of a Contracting State" means:
(a) any person who, under the laws of that
State, is liable to tax therein by reason of his domicile, residence, place of
management or any other criterion of a similar nature; and
(b) the Government of that Contracting State or
a political subdivision or local authority thereof or any agency or
instrumentality of any such government, subdivision or authority.
However,
the term does not include a permanent establishment within the meaning of
subparagraph c. of paragraph (3) of Article 2 of the Indonesian Law Number 7 of
1983 concerning income tax as amended.
2. Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 an individual
is a resident of both Contracting States, his status shall be determined in
accordance with the following rules:
(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 closest (hereinafter referred to as his "centre of
vital interests");
(b) if the Contracting 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 Contracting State in which he has an habitual abode;
(c) if he has an habitual abode in both
Contracting States or in neither of them, he shall be deemed to be a resident
of the Contracting State of which he is a national;
(d) if he is a national of both Contracting
States or of neither of them, the competent authorities of the Contracting
States shall settle the question by mutual agreement.
3. [REPLACED by paragraph
1 of Article 4 and subparagraph e) of paragraph 3 of Article 4 of the MLI]
[Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 a person other than an
individual is a resident of both Contracting States, the competent authorities
of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement endeavour to settle the
question and to determine the mode of application of the Convention to such
person.]
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The following paragraph 1 of
Article 4 and subparagraph e) of paragraph 3 of Article 4 of the MLI replace
paragraph 3 of Article 4 of this Convention:
ARTICLE
4 OF THE MLI - DUAL RESIDENT ENTITIES
Where by reason of the
provisions of the Convention a person other than an individual is a resident
of both Contracting States, the competent authorities of the Contracting
States shall endeavour to determine by mutual agreement the Contracting State
of which such person shall be deemed to be a resident for the purposes of the
Convention, having regard to its place of effective management, the place
where it is incorporated or otherwise constituted and any other relevant
factors. In the absence of such agreement, such person shall not be entitled
to any relief or exemption from tax provided by the Convention.
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Article 5
PERMANENT ESTABLISHMENT
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1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "permanent
establishment" means a fixed place of business in which the business of
the enterprise is wholly or partly carried on.
2. The term "permanent Establishment" shall include
especially :
(a) a place of management;
(b) a branch;
(c) an office;
(d) a factory;
(e) a workshop;
(f) a mine, an oil well, a quarry or any other
place of extraction of natural resources;
(g) a farm or a plantation;
(h) a building site, a construction,
installation or assembly project or supervisory activities in connection
therewith, where such site, project or activity continues for a period of more
than 120 days;
(i) the furnishing of services, including
consultancy services, by an enterprise through an employee or other person
(other than an agent of an independent status within the meaning of paragraph
6) where the activities continue within a Contracting State for more than 120
days within any twelve month period.
3. The term "permanent establishment "shall not be
deemed 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 for
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,
for scientific research, or for similar activities which have a preparatory or
auxiliary character, for the enterprise.
4. A person -- other than an agent of independent status to whom
paragraph 6 applies -- acting in a Contracting State on behalf of an enterprise
of the other Contracting State shall be deemed to be a permanent establishment
in the first-mentioned State if:
(a) he has, and habitually exercises in that
State, an authority to conclude contracts in the name of the enterprise, unless
his activities are limited to the purchase of goods or merchandise for the
enterprise; or
(b) he maintains in the first-mentioned State a
stock of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise from which he
regularly fills orders on behalf of the enterprise.
5. An insurance enterprise of a Contracting State shall, except
with regard to reinsurance, 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 there through an employee or through a
representative who is not an agent of an independent status within the meaning
of paragraph 6.
6. An enterprise of a Contracting State shall not be deemed to
have a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State through a broker,
general commission agent or any other agent of an independent status, or merely
because it maintains in that other State a stock of goods with an agent of an
independent status from which deliveries are made by that agent, where such
broker or agent is acting in the ordinary course of his business. However, when
the activities of such an agent are devoted wholly or almost wholly to the
business of that enterprise, he shall not be considered an agent of an
independent status within the meaning of this paragraph.
7. 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.
CHAPTER
III
TAXATION OF INCOME
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Article 6
INCOME FROM IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
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1. Income from immovable property including income from
agriculture or forestry may be taxed in the Contracting State in which such
property is situated.
2. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "immovable
property" shall be defined in accordance with 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, boats 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
and to profits from the alienation of such 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 professional 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 or has carried 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 that permanent establishment or are derived within such
other State from sales of goods or merchandise of the same kind as those sold
or from other business transactions of the same kind as those effected, through
the 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 be attributed
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. In the determination of the profits of a permanent
establishment, there shall be allowed those deductible expenses which are
incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment including executive
and general administrative expenses, whether incurred in the State in which the
permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere.
4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State,
according to its law, 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 of this Article 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 laid down 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 enterprise.
6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, 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 Convention, 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 derived by an enterprise from the operation of ships
or aircraft in international traffic shall be taxable only in the Contracting
State of which the enterprise is a resident.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 and of Article
7, profits derived from the operation of ships or aircraft used principally to
transport passengers or goods between places in a Contracting State may be
taxed in that State.
3. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall also apply to profits
derived by an enterprise from its participation in a pool, a joint business or
in an international operating agency but only to so much of the profits so
derived as is allocable to the participant in an international joint venture in
proportion to its share in the joint operation.
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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. A Contracting State shall not change the profits of an
enterprise in the circumstances referred to in paragraph 1 after the expiry of
the time limits provided in its national laws and, in any case, after five
years from the end of the year in which the profits which would be subject to
such change would have accrued to an enterprise of that State. This paragraph
shall not apply in case of fraud, wilful default or neglect.
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 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 State, but if the beneficial owner of the dividends is a
resident of the other State, the tax so charged shall not exceed:
(a) [MODIFIED by paragraph 1
of Article 8 of the MLI] [10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends
if the beneficial owner is a company which holds directly at least 25 per cent
of the capital of the company paying the dividends;]
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The following paragraph 1 of
Article 8 of the MLI applies to subparagraph (a) of paragraph 2 of Article 10
of this Agreement:
ARTICLE
8 OF THE MLI - DIVIDEND TRANSFER TRANSACTIONS
Subparagraph a paragraph 2 of
Article 10 of the Agreement shall apply only if the ownership conditions
described in those provisions are met throughout a 365 day period that
includes the day of the payment of the dividends (for the purpose of
computing that period, no account shall be taken of changes of ownership that
would directly result from a corporate reorganization, such as a merger or
divisive reorganization, of the company that holds the shares or that pays
the dividends).
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(b) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the
dividends in all other cases.
The provisions of this paragraph
shall not affect the taxation of the company on the profits out of which the
dividends are paid.
3. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means
income from shares, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance"
rights, mining shares, founders shares or other rights, not being debt-claims,
participating in profits, as well as income assimilated to income from shares
or treated in the same way as dividends by the taxation law of the State of
which the company making the distribution is a resident.
4. The provisions of paragraph 2 shall not apply if the recipient
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, a trade or business through a permanent establishment situated
therein, or performs in that other State professional services from a fixed
base situated therein, and the holding by virtue of which the dividends are
paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base.
In such a case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be,
shall apply.
5. Where a company is a resident of only one Contracting State,
the 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
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 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 State.
6. Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State has
a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State, the profits
attributable to the permanent establishment may be subject to an additional tax
in that other State in accordance with its law but the additional tax so
charged shall not exceed 15 percent of the amount of such profits after
deducting therefrom the company 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 State.
2. However, such interest may also be taxed in the Contracting
State in which it arises and according to the laws of that State, but if the
beneficial owner of the interest is a resident of the other State, the tax so
charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the gross amount of the interest.
3. The term "interest" as used in this Article means
income from debt-claims of every kind, whether or not secured by 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, as well as income assimilated to income from money lent by the
taxation law of the State in which the income arises. However, the term
"interest" does not include income dealt with in Article 10.
4. The provisions of paragraph 2 shall not apply if the recipient
of the interest, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on in the
other Contracting State in which the interest arises, a trade or business
through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other
State professional 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 a case, the provisions
of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
5. Interest shall be deemed to arise in a Contracting State when
the payer is that State itself, a political subdivision, a local authority or a
resident of that 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 that interest is
borne by that 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.
6. Where, owing to a special relationship between the payer and
the recipient or between both of them and some other person, the amount of the
interest paid, 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 recipient 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 law of each Contracting State,
due regard being had to the other provisions of this Convention.
7. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 2, interest
arising in Canada shall be taxable only in Indonesia if it is paid to :
(a) the government of Indonesia or a political
subdivision thereof;
(b) a statutory body of the government of
Canada performing functions of a governmental nature;
(c) such financial public institution of
Indonesia as is specified and agreed in letters exchanged between the competent
authorities of the two Contracting States;
(d) an enterprise of Indonesia on loans or
credits granted with the participation of a financing public institution of
Indonesia with the approval of the competent authority of Canada.
8. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 2, interest
arising in Indonesia shall be taxable only in Canada if it is paid to :
(a) the government of Canada or a political
subdivision thereof;
(b) a statutory body of the government of
Canada performing functions of a governmental nature;
(c) the Export Development Corporation; or
(d) an enterprise of Canada on loans or credit
granted with the participation of the Export Development Corporation with the
consent of the Minister in charge of financial affairs or of planning in
Indonesia, in connection with the sale of any industrial or scientific
equipment or with the survey, the installation or the supply of industrial or
scientific premises or of public works.
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
beneficial owner of the royalties is a resident of the other State, the tax so
charged shall not exceed 10 per cent 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, any patent, trademark, 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. However, the term does not include
payments for the furnishing of technical services (such as studies or surveys
of a scientific, geological or technical nature, engineering contracts
including blueprints related thereto, and consultancy and supervisory
services).
4. The provisions of paragraph 2 shall not apply if the recipient
of the royalties, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on in the
other Contracting State in which the royalties arise a trade or business
through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other
State professional 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 a case, the provisions
of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
5. Royalties shall be deemed to arise in a Contracting State when
the payer is that State itself, a political subdivision, a local authority or a
resident of that State. Where, however, 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 fixed base in connection with which the
obligation to pay the royalties was incurred, and those royalties are borne by
that 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, owing to a special relationship between the payer and
the recipient or between both of them and some other person, the amount of the
royalties paid, 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 recipient 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 law of each
Contracting State, due regard being had to the other provisions of this
Convention.
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Article 13
GAINS FROM THE ALIENATION OF PROPERTY
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1. Gains from the alienation of immovable property may be taxed
in the Contracting State in which such 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 professional
services, including such gains from the alienation of such a permanent
establishment (alone or with the whole enterprise) or of such a fixed base my
be taxed in that other State. However, gains from the alienation of ships or
aircraft operated by an enterprise of a Contracting State in international
traffic or movable property pertaining to the operation of such ships or
aircraft, shall be taxable only in that Contracting State.
3. [REPLACED by paragraph
4 of Article 9 of the MLI] [Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting
State from the alienation of:
(a) shares of a company which is a resident of the other State the
value of which shares is derived principally from immovable property situated
in that other State; or
(b) an interest in a partnership, trust or estate, established under
the law in the other State, the value of which is derived principally from
immovable property situated in that other State, may be taxed in that other
State.
For the purposes of this
paragraph, the term "immovable property" includes the shares of a
company referred to in subparagraph (a) or an interest in a partnership, trust
or estate referred to in subparagraph (b).]
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The following paragraph 4 of
Article 9 of the MLI replaces paragraph 3 of Article 13 of this Convention:
ARTICLE
9 OF THE MLI - CAPITAL GAINS FROM ALIENATION OF SHARES OR
INTERESTS
OF ENTITIES DERIVING THEIR VALUE PRINCIPALLY FROM
IMMOVABLE
PROPERTY
For purposes of this
Convention, gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the
alienation of shares or comparable interests, such as interests in a
partnership or trust, may be taxed in the other Contracting State if, at any
time during the 365 days preceding the alienation, these shares or comparable
interests derived more than 50 per cent of their value directly or indirectly
from immovable property (real property) situated in that other Contracting
State.
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4. Gains from the alienation of any property, other than those
mentioned in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall be taxable only in the Contracting
State of which the alienator is a resident.
5. The provisions of paragraph 4 shall not affect the right of
either of the Contracting States to levy, according to its domestic law, a tax
on gains from the alienation of any property derived by an individual who is a
resident of the other Contracting State and has been a resident of the
first-mentioned State at any time during the six years immediately preceding
the alienation of the property.
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Article 14
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
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1. Income derived by an individual who is a resident of a
Contracting State in respect of professional services or other activities of an
independent character shall be taxable only in that Contracting State unless he
has a fixed base regularly available to him in the other Contracting State for
the purpose of performing his activities or he is present in that other
Contracting State for a period or periods exceeding in the aggregate 120 days
in any twelve month period. If he has or had such a fixed base or remains in
that other Contracting State for the aforesaid period or periods, the income
may be taxed in that other Contracting State but only so much of it as is
attributable to that fixed base or is derived in that other Contracting State
during the aforesaid period or periods.
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 15
DEPENDENT PERSONAL SERVICES
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1. Subject to the provisions of Articles 16, 18 and 19, 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 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 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 the recipient is present in the other Contracting
State for a period or periods not exceeding in the aggregate 120 days within
any twelve month period, and either:
(a) the remuneration earned in the other
Contracting State within the twelve month period does not exceed five thousand
Canadian dollars ($5,000) or its equivalent in rupiah, or such other amount as
is specified and agreed in letters exchanged between the competent authorities
of the Contracting States; or
(b) the remuneration is paid by, or on behalf
of, an employer who is not a resident of the other State, and such remuneration
is not borne by a permanent establishment or a fixed base which the employer
has in the other State.
3. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Article,
remuneration derived in respect of an employment exercised aboard a ship or
aircraft operated in international traffic by an enterprise of a Contracting
State, shall be taxable only in that State unless the remuneration is derived
by a resident of the other Contracting State.
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Article 16
DIRECTORS FEES
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Directors fees and similar
payments derived by a resident of a Contracting State in his capacity as a
member of the board of directors or a similar organ of a company which is a
resident of the other Contracting State, may be taxed in that other State.
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Article 17
ARTISTES AND ATHLETES
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1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 7, 14 and 15, income
derived by entertainers, such as theatre, motion picture, radio or television
artistes, and musicians, and by athletes, from their personal activities as
such may be taxed in the Contracting State in which these activities are
exercised.
2. Where income in respect of personal activities as such of an
entertainer or athlete accrues not to that entertainer or athlete himself but
to another person, that income may, notwithstanding the provisions of Articles
7, 14 and 15, be taxed in the Contracting State in which the activities of the
entertainer or athlete are exercised.
3. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply :
(a) to income derived from activities performed
in a Contracting State by entertainers or athletes if the visit to that
Contracting State is substantially supported by public funds of the other
Contracting State, including any political subdivision, local authority or
statutory body thereof;
(b) to income derived in a Contracting State by
a non-profit organization of the other Contracting State which is substantially
supported by public funds of that other State, including any political
subdivision, local authority or statutory body thereof.
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Article 18
PENSIONS AND ANNUITIES
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1. Pensions and annuities arising in a Contracting State and paid
to a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that State.
2. Pensions arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resident
of the other Contracting State may be taxed in the State in which they arise,
and according to the law of that State. However, in the case of periodic
pension payments, other than payments under the social security legislation in
a Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 15 per cent of the gross
amount of the payment.
3. Annuities arising in a Contracting State and paid to a
resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in the State in which they
arise, and according to the law of that State; but the tax so charged shall not
exceed 15 percent of the gross amount of the payment. However, this limitation
does not apply to lumpsum payments arising on the surrender, cancellation,
redemption, sale or other alienation of an annuity, or to payments of any kind
under an income-averaging annuity contract.
4. Notwithstanding anything in this Convention :
(a) pensions and allowances received from
Canada under the Pension Act, the Civilian War Pensions and Allowances Act or
the War Veterans Allowances Act and compensation received under section 7 of
the Aeronautics Act shall not be taxable in Indonesia so long as they are not
subject to Canadian tax;
(b) pensions and allowances paid by, or out of
funds created by Indonesia or a political subdivision or a local authority
thereof, shall be taxable only in Indonesia;
(c) alimony and other similar payments arising
in a Contracting State and paid to a resident of the other Contracting State
who is subject to tax therein in respect thereof, shall be taxable only in that
other State.
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Article 19
GOVERNMENT SERVICE
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1. Remuneration, other than a pension, paid by a Contracting
State or a political subdivision or a local authority thereof to any individual
in respect of services rendered to that State or subdivision or local authority
thereof shall be taxable only in that State. However, such remuneration shall
be taxable only in the other Contracting State if the recipient did not become
a resident of that other State solely for the purpose of performing the
services therein.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to the
remuneration in respect of services rendered in connection with any trade or
business carried on by one of the Contracting States or a political subdivision
or a local authority thereof.
Payments which a student,
apprentice or business trainee who is, or was immediately before visiting one
of the Contracting States, a resident of the other Contracting State and who is
present in the first-mentioned Contracting State solely for the purpose of his
education or training receives for the purpose of his maintenance, education or
training, shall not be taxed in that first-mentioned State, provided that such
payments are made to him from sources outside that State.
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Article 21
INCOME NOT EXPRESSLY MENTIONED
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Items of income of a resident of
a Contracting State which are not expressly mentioned in the foregoing Articles
of this Convention shall be taxable only in that Contracting State except that,
if such income is derived from sources within the other Contracting State, it
may also be taxed in that other State.
CHAPTER
IV
METHODS FOR PREVENTION OF DOUBLE TAXATION
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Article 22
ELIMINATION OF DOUBLE TAXATION
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1. In the case of Canada, double taxation shall be avoided as
follows :
(a) Subject to the existing provisions of the
law of Canada regarding the deduction from tax payable in Canada of tax paid in
a territory outside Canada and to any subsequent modification of those
provisions -- which shall not affect the general principle hereof --, and
unless a greater deduction or relief is provided under the laws of Canada, tax
payable under the law of Indonesia and in accordance with this Convention on
profits, income or gains arising in Indonesia shall be deducted from any
Canadian tax payable in respect of such profits, income or gains.
(b) Subject to the existing provisions of the
law of Canada regarding the determination of the exempt surplus of a foreign
affiliate and to any subsequent modification of those provisions -- which shall
not affect the general principle hereof -- for the purpose of computing
Canadian tax a company resident in Canada shall be allowed to deduct in
computing its taxable income any dividend received by it out of the exempt
surplus of a foreign affiliate resident in Indonesia.
(c) Where in accordance with any provision of
this Convention income derived by a resident of Canada is exempt from tax in
Canada, Canada may nevertheless, in calculating the amount of tax on other
income, take into account the exempted income.
2. In the case of Indonesia, double taxation shall be avoided as
follows :
(a) Indonesia, when imposing tax on residents
of Indonesia, may include in the basis upon which such taxes are imposed the
items of income which according to the provisions of this Convention may be
taxed in Canada.
(b) Subject to the provisions of subparagraph
(c), Indonesia shall allow as a deduction from the tax computed in conformity
with subparagraph (a) an amount equal to such proportion of that tax that the
income which is included in the basis of that tax and may be taxed in Canada
according to the provisions of this Convention bears to the total income which
forms the basis for Indonesian tax.
(c) Where a resident of Indonesia derives
income which, in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 10, paragraph 2 of
Article 11, and paragraph 2 of Article 12 may be taxed in Canada, Indonesia
shall allow as a deduction from the Indonesian tax on the income of that person
an amount equal to the tax paid in Canada on that income. Such deduction shall
not, however, exceed that part of the Indonesian tax computed in conformity
with subparagraph (a) which is appropriate to the income derived from Canada.
3. For the purposes of this Article, profits, income or gains of
a resident of a Contracting State which are taxed in the other Contracting
State in accordance with this Convention shall be deemed to arise from sources
in that other State.
CHAPTER
V
SPECIAL PROVISIONS
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Article 23
NON-DISCRIMINATION
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1. The 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 State in the same circumstances
are or may be subjected.
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 State than the taxation levied on enterprises
of that other State carrying on the same activities.
3. Nothing in this Article shall 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 residents.
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 under the law
of 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, in substantially similar circumstances, enterprises of
the first-mentioned State, the capital of which is wholly or partly owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by one or more residents of a third State,
are or may be subjected.
5. Nothing in this Article shall be construed so as to prevent
Indonesia from limiting to its nationals the enjoyment of tax incentives granted
under the Law of 1968 regarding Domestic Capital Investment, so far as it was
in force on, and has not been modified since, the date of signature of this
Convention, or has been modified only in minor respects so as not to affect its
general character.
6. In this Article, the term "taxation" means taxes
which are the subject of this Convention.
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Article 24
MUTUAL AGREEMENT PROCEDURE
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1. Where a resident of a Contracting State considers that the
actions of one or both of the Contracting States result or will result for him
in taxation not in accordance with this Convention, he may, without prejudice
to the remedies provided by the national laws of those States, address to the
competent authority of the Contracting State of which he is a resident an
application in writing stating the grounds for claiming the revision of such
taxation. [REPLACED by paragraph 1 of
Article 16 of the MLI] [To be admissible, the said application must be
submitted within two years from the first notification of the action which
gives rise to taxation not in accordance with the Convention.]
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The following second sentence
of paragraph 1 of Article 16 of the MLI replaces the second sentence of
paragraph 1 of Article 24 of this Convention:
ARTICLE 16 OF THE MLI - MUTUAL AGREEMENT PROCEDURE
Where a person considers that
the actions of one or both of the Contracting States result or will result
for that person in taxation not in accordance with the provisions of this
Convention, that person may, irrespective of the remedies provided by the
domestic law of those Contracting States, present the case to the competent
authority of either Contracting States.
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2. The competent authority referred to in paragraph 1 shall
endeavour, if the objection appears to it to be justified and if it is not
itself able to arrive at an appropriate 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 not in accordance with the Convention.
3. A Contracting State shall not, after the expiry of the time
limits provided in its national laws and, in any case, after five years from
the end of the taxable period in which the income concerned has accrued,
increase the tax base of a resident of either of the Contracting States by
including therein items of income which have also been charged to tax in the
other Contracting State. This paragraph shall not apply in case of fraud,
wilful default or neglect.
4. [MODIFIED by second
sentence of paragraph 3 of Article 16 of the MLI] [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 Convention. In particular, the competent authorities of the
Contracting States may consult together to endeavour to agree:
(a) to the same attribution of profits to a
resident of a Contracting State and its permanent establishment situated in the
other Contracting State;
(b) to the same allocation of income between a
resident of a Contracting State and any associated person provided for in
Article 9.]
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The following second sentence
of paragraph 3 of Article 16 of the MLI applies to paragraph 4 of Article 24
of this Convention:
ARTICLE
16 OF THE MLI - MUTUAL AGREEMENT PROCEDURE
They may also consult together
for the elimination of double taxation in cases not provided for in this
Convention.
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Article 25
EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
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1. The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall
exchange such information as is necessary for the carrying out of this
Convention or of the domestic laws of the Contracting States, and for the
prevention of fiscal evasion, concerning taxes covered by this Convention
insofar as the taxation thereunder is in accordance with this Convention. Any
information so exchanged shall be treated as secret and shall not be disclosed
to any persons or authorities other than those concerned with the assessment or
collection of the taxes which are the subject of this Convention.
2. The exchange of information may be either on a routine basis
or on request with reference to particular cases. The competent authorities of
the Contracting States may agree on the list of information which shall be
furnished on a routine basis.
3. In no case shall the provisions of paragraph 1 be construed so
as to impose on one of the Contracting States the obligation :
(a) to carry out administrative measures at
variance with the laws or the administrative practice of that or of the other
Contracting State;
(b) to supply particulars which are 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 26
DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR OFFICIALS
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1. Nothing in this Convention shall affect the fiscal privileges
of members of diplomatic or consular missions under the general rules of
international law or under the provisions of special agreements.
2. Notwithstanding Article 4, an individual who is a member of a
diplomatic, consular or permanent mission of a Contracting State which is
situated in the other Contracting State or in a third State shall be deemed for
the purposes of this Convention to be a resident of the sending State if he is
liable in the sending State to the same obligations in relation to tax on his
total world income as are residents of that sending State.
3. This Convention shall not apply to International
Organizations, to officials or organs thereof and to persons who are members of
a diplomatic, consular or permanent mission of a third State, being present in
a Contracting State and who are not liable in either Contracting State to the
same obligations in relation to tax on their total world income as are
residents thereof.
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Article 27
MISCELLANEOUS RULES
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1. The provisions of this Convention shall not be construed to
restrict in any manner any exclusion, exemption, deduction, credit, or other
allowance now or hereafter accorded:
(a) by the laws of one of the Contracting
States in the determination of the tax imposed by that Contracting State, or
(b) by any other agreement entered into by one
of the Contracting States.
2. The competent authorities of the Contracting States may
communicate with each other directly for the purpose of applying this Convention.
3. The provisions of paragraph 6 of Article 10 shall not affect
the provisions contained in any Contracts of Work and Production Sharing
Contracts relating to the oil and gas sector or other mining sector negotiated
by the Government of Indonesia, its instrumentality, its relevant state oil
company or any other entity thereof with a person who is a resident of Canada.
4. Nothing in the Convention shall be construed as preventing a
Contracting State from imposing a tax on amounts included in the income of a
resident of that Contracting State with respect to a partnership, trust or
controlled foreign affiliate in which the resident has an interest.
5. The Convention shall not apply to any company, trust or
partnership that is a resident of a Contracting State and is beneficially owned
or controlled directly or indirectly by one or more persons who are not
residents of that State, if the amount of the tax imposed on the income of the
company, trust or partnership by that State is substantially lower than the
amount that would be imposed by that State if all of the shares of the capital
stock of the company or all of the interests in the trust or partnership, as
the case may be, were beneficially owned by one or more individuals who were
residents of that State.
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The following paragraph 1 of
Article 7 of the MLI applies and supersedes the provisions of this
Convention:
ARTICLE
7 OF THE MLI - PREVENTION OF TREATY ABUSE
(Principal
purposes test provision)
Notwithstanding any provisions
of the Convention, a benefit under the Convention shall not be granted in
respect of an item of income if it is reasonable to conclude, having regard
to all relevant facts and circumstances,
that obtaining that benefit was
one of the principal purposes
of any arrangement
or
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transaction that resulted
directly or indirectly in that benefit, unless it is established that
granting thatbenefit in these circumstances would be in accordance with the
object and purpose of the relevant provisions of the Convention.
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CHAPTER
VI
FINAL PROVISIONS
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Article 28
ENTRY INTO FORCE
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1. This Convention shall be ratified and the instruments of
ratification shall be exchanged at Ottawa.
2. The Convention shall enter into force upon the exchange of the
instruments of ratification and its provisions shall have effect:
(a) in respect of tax withheld at the source on
amounts paid or credited to non-residents on or after the first day of January
in the calendar year in which the exchange of instruments of ratification takes
place; and
(b) in respect of other taxes for taxable
periods beginning on or after the first day of January in the calendar year in
which the exchange of instruments of ratification takes place.
This Convention shall continue in
effect indefinitely but either Contracting State may, on or before June 30 in
any calendar year after the year 1980, give notice of termination to the other
Contracting State and in such event the Convention shall cease to have effect:
(a) in respect of tax withheld at the source on amounts paid or
credited to non-residents on or after the first day of January in the calendar
year next following that in which the notice is given; and
(b) in respect of other taxes for taxable periods beginning on or
after the first day of January in the calendar year next following that in
which the notice is given.
In witness whereof the
undersigned, duly authorized to that effect, have signed this Convention.
Done in duplicate at Jakarta,
this sixteenth day of January, 1979, in the English, French and Indonesian
languages, each version being equally authentic.
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FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF REPUBLIC
OF INDONESIA
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FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF
CANADA
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