(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.
(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 Contract-
ing State, the tax so charged shall not exceed:
a) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the bene-
ficial owner is a company which holds directly at least 10 per
cent of the capital of the company paying the dividends;
b) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other
cases.
This paragraph shall not affect the taxation of the company in re-
spect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
(3) The term “dividends” as used in this Article means income
from shares, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining
shares, founders’ shares or other income which is subjected to
the same taxation treatment as income from shares by the laws
of the State of which the company making the distribution is a
resident and distributions on certificates of an investment fund
or investment trust.
(4) The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply if
the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Con-
tracting 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 and the holding in
respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected
with such permanent establishment. In such case the provisions
of Article 7 shall apply.
(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 res-
ident of that other State or insofar as the holding in respect of
which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with a per-
manent establishment situated in that other State, nor subject
the company’s undistributed profits to a tax on the company’s
undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistrib-
uted profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in
such other State.
de-cyprus-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1068 | Signed: 2011-02-18 | Gazette publication: 2011-11-07
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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1068 | de-cyprus-2011-base | de-cyprus-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1068 | Signed: 2011-02-18 | Gazette publication: 2011-11-07 | Article 10 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-cyprus-2011-base/en/articles/article-10/
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de-cyprus-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1068 | Signed: 2011-02-18 | Gazette publication: 2011-11-07
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