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(1) The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on busi- ness in the other Contracting State through a permanent estab- lishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to that permanent establishment.
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(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enter- prise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or sim- ilar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enter- prise of which it is a permanent establishment.
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(3) In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establish- ment is situated or elsewhere.
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(4) In the absence of appropriate accounting data or other information permitting the determination of profits to be attrib- uted to the permanent establishment of an enterprise, tax may be assessed in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated in accordance with the laws of that State by the making of an estimate on the basis of available information, so far as the information available permits, in accordance with the principle of this Article.
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(5) No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establish- ment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent estab- lishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise.
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(6) For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be deter- mined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary.
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(7) Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Agreement, then the pro- visions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.