Australian Tax Treaties

Maltese Agreement  

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

CHAPTER III - TAXATION OF INCOME  

ARTICLE 10   Dividends  

(1)    
Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of one of the Contracting States for the purposes of its tax, being dividends to which a resident of the other Contracting State is beneficially entitled, may be taxed in that other State.

(2)    
Such dividends may be taxed in the Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident for the purposes of its tax, and according to the law of that State, but:


(a) in the case of tax charged by Australia:
that tax shall not exceed 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends;


(b) in the case of tax charged by Malta:


(i) such tax on the gross amount of the dividends shall not exceed that chargeable on the profits out of which the dividends are paid;

(ii) where such dividends are paid out of profits of a company which are subject to tax at a reduced rate of tax under special provisions designed to promote investments necessary for the economic development of Malta, the rate of Malta tax on the dividends shall not exceed such reduced rate.

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 " in this Article means income from shares and other income assimilated to income from shares by the taxation law of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident for the purposes of its tax.

(4)    
The provisions of paragraph (2) shall not apply if the person beneficially entitled to the dividends, being a resident of one of the Contracting States, 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 which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In any such case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.

(5)    
Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of one of the Contracting States, being dividends to which a person who is not a resident of the other Contracting State is beneficially entitled, shall be exempt from tax in that other State except insofar as the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with a permanent establishment or fixed base situated in that other State. Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in relation to dividends paid by any company which is a resident of Australia for the purposes of Australian tax and which is also a resident of Malta for the purposes of Malta tax.


 

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