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Country pairs / Switzerland / United Kingdom

Switzerland / United Kingdom · Switzerland–United Kingdom 1977 Convention: official amended publication

Article 12 · Royalties

English · amended source publication

Unreviewed · applicability unverifiedProtocol entry-date conflict: 16 / 19 July 2019
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(1) Royalties arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resident of the other Contracting State shall be taxable only in that other State if that resident is the beneficial owner of the royalties.
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(2) 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 and films or tapes for radio or television broadcasting), any patent, trade mark, design or model, plan, secret formula or process, or for information concerning industrial, commercial or scientific experience.
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(3) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the royalties, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on business in the other Contracting State in which the royalties arise, through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other 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 that case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
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(4) 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 royalties 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 Convention.
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Switzerland / United Kingdom; HMRC, 1977 UK-Switzerland Double Taxation Convention as amended by the 2017 protocol; edition 1977 Convention amended by 1981, 1993, 2007, 2009 and 2017 Protocols; HMRC updated 29 September 2021; article 12; English; unreviewed source text, current applicability unverified; /editions/ch-gb-1977-hmrc-amended-2017-html-v1/en/articles/article-12/

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HMRC, 1977 UK-Switzerland Double Taxation Convention as amended by the 2017 protocol

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1977 Convention amended by 1981, 1993, 2007, 2009 and 2017 Protocols; HMRC updated 29 September 2021
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1977-12-08

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