(1) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a
Contracting 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 ben-
eficial 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 (other than a partnership) which
holds directly at least 10 per cent of the capital of the com-
pany 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
respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid. The
competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual
agreement settle the mode of application of these limitations.
(3) The term “dividends” as used in this Article means
income from shares, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights
or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as
well as 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 distributions is a resident and
distributions on certificates of an investment fund.
(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, or per-
forms 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 per-
manent establishment or fixed base. In such case the provi-
sions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, 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 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 company’s undistributed profits, even if the divi-
dends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly
of profits or income arising in such other State.
de-malaysia-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1310 | Signed: 2010-02-23 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23
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de-malaysia-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1310 | Signed: 2010-02-23 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23
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