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1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Con- tracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.
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2. However, such dividends may also be taxed in the Con- tracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident and according to the laws of that State, but if the bene- ficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other Contracting State the tax so charged shall not exceed: (a) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the bene- ficial owner (other than an individual or a partnership) holds directly at least 10 per cent of the capital of the company pay- ing the dividends; (b) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other cases. As long as a resident in the Federal Republic of Germany is en- titled under German law to a tax credit (Anrechnung der Koerper- schaftsteuer) in respect of dividends paid by a company that is a resident of the Federal Republic of Germany, the beneficial owner of the dividends subject to sub-paragraph b) shall be en- titled to a further relief of tax of 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends.
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3. The term “dividends” as used in this Article means: (a) dividends on shares including income from shares, “jouis- sance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, par- ticipating in profits, and (b) other income which is subjected to the same taxation treat- ment as income from shares by the laws of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, and for the purpose of taxation in the Federal Republic of Germany, income derived by a sleeping partner from his participation as such and distributions on certificates of an investment trust.
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4. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contract- ing State, 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 establish- ment or fixed base. In such case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
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5. Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State derives profits or income from the other Contracting State, that other 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 company’s undistributed profits to a tax on the com- pany’s undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.