Australian Tax Treaties

Chinese Agreement  

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRALIA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE ' S REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME  

ARTICLE 8   Shipping and Air Transport  

1.    
Profits from the operation of ships derived by a resident of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State.

2.    
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), such profits may be taxed in the other Contracting State where they are profits from operations of ships confined solely to places in that other State.

3.    
The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) shall also apply to profits from participation in a pool, a joint business or an international operating agency.

4.    
For the purposes of this Article, profits derived from the carriage by ships of passengers, livestock, mail, goods or merchandise shipped in a Contracting State for discharge at another place in that State shall be treated as profits from operations of ships confined solely to places in that State.

5.    
Nothing in this Agreement shall affect the operation of the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the People ' s Republic of China for the Avoidance of Double Taxation of Income and Revenues Derived by Air Transport Enterprises from International Air Transport signed at Beijing on 22 November 1985. [1]

ATS 1986 No. 31 Act 1986 No. 46





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