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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, in par- ticular with respect to residence, are or may be subjected. This provision shall, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 1, also apply to persons who are not residents of one or both of the Contracting States.
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(2) The taxation on a permanent establishment which an enter- prise 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. This provision 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 residents.
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(3) Except where the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 9, paragraph 4 of Article 11, paragraph 4 of Article 12 or para- graph 3 of Article 20 apply, interest, royalties and other disburse- ments paid by an enterprise of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, for the purposes of deter- mining the taxable profits of such enterprise, be deductible under the same conditions as if they had been paid to a resident of the firstmentioned Contracting State.
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(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 Contracting 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 Contracting State are or may be subjected.
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(5) The provisions of this Article shall, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 2, apply to taxes of every kind and descrip- tion imposed by a Contracting State, a federal state (Land) there- of or a political subdivision or local authority thereof.