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Artigo 29.º — Denúncia

Vigente desde: 22/09/2008

A presente Convenção manter-se-á em vigor enquanto não for denunciada por um Estado Contratante. Qualquer dos Estados Contratantes pode denunciar a Convenção, por via diplomática, mediante um aviso prévio mínimo de seis meses antes do fim de qualquer ano civil posterior ao período de cinco anos a contar da data da entrada em vigor da Convenção. Nesse caso, a Convenção deixará de se aplicar:

  1. a)Em Portugal:
    1. i)Aos impostos devidos na fonte, cujo facto gerador surja em ou depois de 1 de Janeiro imediatamente após a data em que o período referido no aviso de denúncia expira;
    2. ii)Aos demais impostos, relativamente aos rendimentos produzidos no ano fiscal com início em ou depois de 1 de Janeiro imediatamente após a data em que o período referido no aviso de denúncia expira;
  2. b)Na África do Sul, relativamente aos anos de liquidação com início em ou depois de 1 de Janeiro imediatamente a seguir à data em que o período referido no aviso de denúncia expira.

    Em testemunho do qual, os signatários, devidamente autorizados para o efeito, assinaram a presente Convenção.

    Feito em duplicado, em Lisboa, aos 13 dias do mês de Novembro de 2006, nas línguas portuguesa e inglesa, sendo ambos os textos igualmente válidos.

    Pela República Portuguesa:

    Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, Ministro de Estado e das Finanças.

    Pela República da África do Sul:

    Naledi Pandor, Ministra da Educação.

    PROTOCOLO

    No momento da assinatura da presente Convenção destinada a Evitar a Dupla Tributação e a Prevenir a Evasão Fiscal em Matéria de Impostos sobre o Rendimento, celebrada nesta data entre a República da África do Sul e a República Portuguesa, os signatários acordaram nas seguintes disposições adicionais que constituem parte integrante da Convenção:

    Ad artigo 24.º

  3. 1 -O disposto no n.º 3 não é impeditivo da aplicação de qualquer disposição da legislação fiscal de um Estado Contratante respeitante à dedução de juros, em vigor à data da assinatura da presente Convenção (incluindo qualquer modificação futura das disposições que não altere o seu carácter geral).
  4. 2 -O disposto no n.º 3 será interpretado no sentido de que, no que diz respeito à dedutibilidade das despesas suportadas, cada Estado Contratante pode aplicar os respectivos procedimentos no que se refere ao ónus da prova.
  5. 3 -O disposto no n.º 5 só se aplica enquanto a isenção do imposto secundário sobre as empresas actualmente concedida a sucursais de empresas que não são residentes na África do Sul estiver em vigor.

    Portugal não beneficiará do disposto no n.º 5, na medida em que não tenha estabelecido um imposto similar ao imposto secundário sobre as empresas da África do Sul.

    Em testemunho do qual, os signatários, devidamente autorizados para o efeito, assinaram o presente Protocolo.

    Feito em duplicado, em Lisboa aos 13 dias do mês de Novembro de 2006, nas línguas portuguesa e inglesa, sendo ambos os textos igualmente válidos.

    Pela República Portuguesa:

    Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, Ministro de Estado e das Finanças.

    Pela República da África do Sul:

    Naledi Pandor, Ministra da Educação.

    CONVENTION BETWEEN THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC AND THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME.

    Preamble

    The Portuguese Republic and the Republic of South Africa, desiring to conclude a Convention for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income, and to promote and strengthen the economic relations between the two countries, have agreed as follows:

    CHAPTER I

    Scope of the Convention

    Article 1

    Persons covered

    This Convention shall apply to persons who are residents of one or both of the Contracting States.

    Article 2

    Taxes covered

  6. 1 -This Convention shall apply to taxes on income imposed on behalf of a Contracting State or of its political or administrative subdivisions or local authorities, irrespective of the manner in which they are levied.
  7. 2 -There shall be regarded as taxes on income taxes imposed on total income or on elements of income, including taxes on gains from the alienation of movable or immovable property, as well as taxes on capital appreciation.
  8. 3 -The existing taxes to which the Convention shall apply are, in particular:
    1. a)In the case of Portugal:
      1. i)The personal income tax (imposto sobre o rendimento das pessoas singulares - IRS);
      2. ii)The corporate income tax (imposto sobre o rendimento das pessoas colectivas - IRC); and
      3. iii)The local surtax on corporate income tax (derrama);

        (hereinafter referred to as «Portuguese tax»); and

    2. b)In the case of South Africa:
      1. i)The normal tax;
      2. ii)The secondary tax on companies; and
      3. iii)The withholding tax on royalties;

        (hereinafter referred to as «South African tax»).

  9. 4 -The Convention shall apply also to any identical or substantially similar taxes that are imposed after the date of signature of the Convention in addition to, or in place of, the existing taxes. The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall notify each other of any substantial changes that have been made in their respective taxation laws.

    CHAPTER II

    Definitions

    Article 3

    General definitions

  10. 1 -For the purposes of this Convention, unless the context otherwise requires:
    1. a)The term «Portugal» means the territory of the Portuguese Republic situated in the european continent, the archipelagoes of Azores and Madeira, the territorial sea and inland waters thereof as well as the continental shelf and any other area wherein the Portuguese State exercises sovereign rights or jurisdiction in accordance with the rules of international law;
    2. b)The term «South Africa» means the Republic of South Africa and, when used in a geographical sense, includes the territorial sea thereof as well as any area outside the territorial sea, including the continental shelf, which has been or may hereafter be designated, under the laws of South Africa and in accordance with international law, as an area within which South Africa may exercise sovereign rights or jurisdiction;
    3. c)The terms «a Contracting State» and «the other Contracting State» mean Portugal or South Africa, as the context requires;
    4. d)The term «person» includes an individual, a company and any other body of persons that is treated as an entity for tax purposes;
    5. e)The term «company» means any body corporate or any entity that is treated as a company or body corporate for tax purposes;
    6. f)The terms «enterprise of a Contracting State» and «enterprise of the other Contracting State» mean respectively an enterprise carried on by a resident of a Contracting State and an enterprise carried on by a resident of the other Contracting State;
    7. g)The term «international traffic» means any transport by a ship or aircraft operated by an enterprise of a Contracting State, except when the ship or aircraft is operated solely between places in the other Contracting State;
    8. h)The term «competent authority» means:
      1. i)In the case of Portugal, the Minister of Finance, the director general of Taxation (director-geral dos Impostos) or their authorized representative; and
      2. ii)In the case of South Africa, the Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service or an authorized representative of the Commissioner;
    9. i)The term «national» means:
      1. i)Any individual possessing the nationality of a Contracting State;
      2. ii)Any legal person or association deriving its status as such from the laws in force in a Contracting State.
  11. 2 -As regards the application of the Convention at any time by a Contracting State, any term not defined therein shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning that it has at that time under the law of that State for the purposes of the taxes to which the Convention applies, any meaning under the applicable tax laws of that State prevailing over a meaning given to the term under other laws of that State.

    Article 4

    Resident

  12. 1 -For the purposes of this Convention, the term «resident of a Contracting State» means any person who, under the laws of that State, is liable to tax therein by reason of that person's domicile, residence, place of management or any other criterion of a similar nature, and also includes that State and any political or administrative subdivision or local authority thereof. This term, however, does not include any person who is liable to tax in that State in respect only of income from sources therein.
  13. 2 -Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 an individual is a resident of both Contracting States, then that individual's status shall be determined as follows:
    1. a)The individual shall be deemed to be a resident solely of the State in which a permanent home is available to the individual; if a permanent home is available to the individual in both States, the individual shall be deemed to be a resident solely of the State with which the individual's personal and economic relations are closer (centre of vital interests);
    2. b)If sole residence cannot be determined under the provisions of subparagraph a), the individual shall be deemed to be a resident solely of the State in which the individual has an habitual abode;
    3. c)If the individual has an habitual abode in both States or in neither of them, the individual shall be deemed to be a resident solely of the State of which the individual is a national;
    4. d)If the individual is a national of both States or of neither of them, the competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the question by mutual agreement.
  14. 3 -Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 a person other than an individual is a resident of both Contracting States, then it shall be deemed to be a resident solely of the State in which its place of effective management is situated.

    Article 5

    Permanent establishment

  15. 1 -For the purposes of this Convention, the term «permanent establishment» means a fixed place of business through which the business of an enterprise is wholly or partly carried on.
  16. 2 -The term «permanent establishment» includes especially:
    1. a)A place of management;
    2. b)A branch;
    3. c)An office;
    4. d)A factory;
    5. e)A workshop; and
    6. f)A mine, an oil or gas well, a quarry or any other place of extraction of natural resources.
  17. 3 -A building site, a construction, installation or assembly project or any supervisory activity in connection with such site or project constitutes a permanent establishment only if it lasts more than 12 months.
  18. 4 -Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this article, the term «permanent establishment» shall be deemed not to include:
    1. a)The use of facilities solely for the purpose of storage, display or delivery of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise;
    2. b)The maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of storage, display or delivery;
    3. c)The maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of processing by another enterprise;
    4. d)The maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for the purpose of purchasing goods or merchandise or of collecting information, for the enterprise;
    5. e)The maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for the purpose of carrying on, for the enterprise, any other activity of a preparatory or auxiliary character; and
    6. f)The maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for any combination of activities mentioned in subparagraphs a) to e), provided that the overall activity of the fixed place of business resulting from this combination is of a preparatory or auxiliary character.
  19. 5 -Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2, where a person - other than an agent of an independent status to whom paragraph 6 applies - is acting on behalf of an enterprise and has, and habitually exercises, in a Contracting State an authority to conclude contracts in the name of the enterprise, that enterprise shall be deemed to have a permanent establishment in that State in respect of any activities which that person undertakes for the enterprise, unless the activities of such person are limited to those mentioned in paragraph 4 which, if exercised through a fixed place of business, would not make this fixed place of business a permanent establishment under the provisions of that paragraph.
  20. 6 -An enterprise shall not be deemed to have a permanent establishment in a Contracting State merely because it carries on business in that State through a broker, general commission agent or any other agent of an independent status, provided that such persons are acting in the ordinary course of their business.
  21. 7 -The fact that a company which is a resident of a Contracting State controls or is controlled by a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State, or which carries on business in that other State (whether through a permanent establishment or otherwise), shall not of itself constitute either company a permanent establishment of the other.

    CHAPTER III

    Taxation of income

    Article 6

    Income from immovable property

  22. 1 -Income derived by a resident of a Contracting State from immovable property, including income from agriculture or forestry, situated in the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.
  23. 2 -The term «immovable property» shall have the meaning which it has under the law of the Contracting State in which the property in question is situated. The term shall in any case include property accessory to immovable property, livestock and equipment used in agriculture and forestry, rights to which the provisions of general law respecting landed property apply, usufruct of immovable property and rights to variable or fixed payments as consideration for the working of, or the right to work, mineral deposits, sources and other natural resources. Ships, boats and aircraft shall not be regarded as immovable property.
  24. 3 -The provisions of paragraph 1 shall apply to income derived from the direct use, letting or use in any other form of immovable property.
  25. 4 -The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 3 shall also apply to the income from immovable property of an enterprise and to income from immovable property used for the performance of independent personal services.
  26. 5 -The foregoing provisions shall also apply to income from movable property or income derived from services connected with the use or the right to use the immovable property which, under the taxation law of the Contracting State in which the property in question is situated, is assimilated to income from immovable property.

    Article 7

    Business profits

  27. 1 -The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment 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.
  28. 2 -Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise 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 similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment.
  29. 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 establishment is situated or elsewhere.
  30. 4 -No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise.
  31. 5 -For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary.
  32. 6 -Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other articles of this Convention, then the provisions of those articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this article.

    Article 8

    Shipping and air transport

  33. 1 -Profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State from the operation of ships or aircraft in international traffic shall be taxable only in that State.
  34. 2 -The provisions of paragraph 1 shall also apply to profits from the participation in a pool, a joint business or an international operating agency.
  35. 3 -Whenever companies from different countries have agreed to carry on an air transportation business together in the form of a consortium, the provisions of paragraph 1 shall apply to such part of the profits of the consortium as corresponds to the participation held in that consortium by a company that is a resident of a Contracting State.

    Article 9

    Associated enterprises

  36. 1 -Where:
    1. a)An enterprise of a Contracting State participates directly or indirectly in the management, control or capital of an enterprise of the other Contracting State; or
    2. b)The same persons participate directly or indirectly in the management, control or capital of an enterprise of a Contracting State and an enterprise of the other Contracting State;

    and in either case conditions are made or imposed between the two enterprises in their commercial or financial relations which differ from those which would be made between independent enterprises, then any profits which would, but for those conditions, have accrued to one of the enterprises, but, by reason of those conditions, have not so accrued, may be included in the profits of that enterprise and taxed accordingly.

  37. 2 -Where a Contracting State includes in the profits of an enterprise of that State - and taxes accordingly - profits on which an enterprise of the other Contracting State has been charged to tax in that other State and the profits so included are profits which would have accrued to the enterprise of the first-mentioned State if the conditions made between the two enterprises had been those which would have been made between independent enterprises, then that other State shall make an appropriate adjustment to the amount of the tax charged therein on those profits where that other State considers the adjustment justified. In determining such adjustment, due regard shall be had to the other provisions of this Convention and the competent authorities of the Contracting States shall if necessary consult each other.

    Article 10

    Dividends

  38. 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.
  39. 2 -However, such dividends may also be taxed in the Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident and according to the laws of that State, but if the beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other Contracting State the tax so charged shall not exceed:
    1. a)15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends; or
    2. b)10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends paid if the beneficial owner is a company that, for an uninterrupted period of two years prior to the payment of the dividend, owns directly at least 25 per cent of the capital stock (capital social) of the company paying the dividends.

      The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of these limitations. This paragraph shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.

  40. 3 -The term «dividends» as used in this article means income from shares, «jouissance» shares or «jouissance» rights, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as 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. The term also includes profits attributed under an arrangement for participation in profits (associação em participação).
  41. 4 -The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting 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 establishment or fixed base. In such case the provisions of article 7 or article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
  42. 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 dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.

    Article 11

    Interest

  43. 1 -Interest arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.
  44. 2 -However, such interest may also be taxed in the Contracting State in which it arises and according to the laws of that State, but if the beneficial owner of the interest is a resident of the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the gross amount of the interest. The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of this limitation.
  45. 3 -Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 2, interest arising in a Contracting State shall be exempt from tax in that State if it is derived by the other Contracting State or a political or administrative subdivision or a local authority thereof or any entity wholly owned and controlled by that State or subdivision or local authority.
  46. 4 -The term «interest» as used in this article means income from debt-claims of every kind, whether or not secured by mortgage and whether or not carrying a right to participate in the debtor's profits, and in particular, income from government securities and income from bonds or debentures, including premiums and prizes attaching to such securities, bonds or debentures. Penalty charges for late payment shall not be regarded as interest for the purpose of this article.
  47. 5 -The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the interest, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on business in the other Contracting State in which the interest arises, through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, and the debt-claim in respect of which the interest is paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such case the provisions of article 7 or article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
  48. 6 -Interest shall be deemed to arise in a Contracting State when the payer is a resident of that State. Where, however, the person paying the interest, whether that person is a resident of a Contracting State or not, has in a Contracting State a permanent establishment or a fixed base in connection with which the indebtedness on which the interest is paid was incurred, and such interest is borne by such permanent establishment or fixed base, then such interest shall be deemed to arise in the State in which the permanent establishment or fixed base is situated.
  49. 7 -Where, by reason of a special relationship between the payer and the beneficial owner or between both of them and some other person, the amount of the interest, having regard to the debt-claim for which it is paid, exceeds the amount which would have been agreed upon by the payer and the beneficial owner in the absence of such relationship, the provisions of this article shall apply only to the last-mentioned amount. In such case, the excess part of the payments shall remain taxable according to the laws of each Contracting State, due regard being had to the other provisions of this Convention.

    Article 12

    Royalties

  50. 1 -Royalties arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.
  51. 2 -However, such royalties may also be taxed in the Contracting State in which they arise and according to the laws of that State, but if the beneficial owner of the royalties is a resident of the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the gross amount of the royalties. The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of this limitation.
  52. 3 -The term «royalties» as used in this article means payments of any kind received as a consideration for the use of, or the right to use, any copyright of literary, artistic or scientific work including cinematograph films and films, tapes or discs for radio or television broadcasting, any patent, trade mark, design or model, plan, secret formula or process, or for the use of, or the right to use, industrial, commercial or scientific equipment, or for information concerning industrial, commercial or scientific experience.
  53. 4 -The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the royalties, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on business in the other Contracting State in which the royalties arise, through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, and the right or property in respect of which the royalties are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such case the provisions of article 7 or article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.
  54. 5 -Royalties shall be deemed to arise in a Contracting State when the payer is a resident of that State. Where, however, the person paying the royalties, whether that person is a resident of a Contracting State or not, has in a Contracting State a permanent establishment or a fixed base in connection with which the obligation to pay the royalties was incurred, and such royalties are borne by that permanent establishment or fixed base, then such royalties shall be deemed to arise in the State in which the permanent establishment or fixed base is situated.
  55. 6 -Where, by reason of a special relationship between the payer and the beneficial owner or between both of them and some other person, the amount of the royalties, having regard to the use, right or information for which they are paid, exceeds the amount which would have been agreed upon by the payer and the beneficial owner in the absence of such relationship, the provisions of this article shall apply only to the last-mentioned amount. In such case, the excess part of the payments shall remain taxable according to the laws of each Contracting State, due regard being had to the other provisions of this Convention.

    Article 13

    Capital gains

  56. 1 -Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of immovable property referred to in article 6 and situated in the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.
  57. 2 -Gains from the alienation of movable property forming part of the business property of a permanent establishment which an enterprise of a Contracting State has in the other Contracting State or of movable property pertaining to a fixed base available to a resident of a Contracting State in the other Contracting State for the purpose of performing independent personal services, including such gains from the alienation of such a permanent establishment (alone or with the whole enterprise) or of such fixed base, may be taxed in that other State.
  58. 3 -Gains of an enterprise of a Contracting State from the alienation of ships or aircraft operated in international traffic or movable property pertaining to the operation of such ships or aircraft, shall be taxable only in that State.
  59. 4 -Gains from the alienation of shares of the capital stock of a company the property of which consists directly or indirectly principally of immovable property situated in a Contracting State may be taxed in that State.
  60. 5 -Gains from the alienation of any property other than that referred to in the preceding paragraphs of this article, shall be taxable only in the Contracting State of which the alienator is a resident.

    Article 14

    Independent personal services

  61. 1 -Income derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of professional services or other activities of an independent character shall be taxable only in that State unless a fixed base is regularly available to that resident in the other Contracting State for the purpose of performing the resident's services or activities. If such a fixed base is available to the resident, the income may be taxed in the other State but only so much of it as is attributable to that fixed base. For the purposes of this Convention, where a resident of a Contracting State is present in the other Contracting State for a period or periods exceeding in the aggregate 183 days in any twelve-month period commencing or ending in the fiscal year concerned, the resident shall be deemed to have a fixed base regularly available in that other State and the income that is derived from the services or activities envisaged in this article that are performed in that other State shall be attributable to that fixed base.
  62. 2 -The term «professional services» includes especially independent scientific, literary, artistic, educational or teaching activities as well as the independent activities of physicians, lawyers, engineers, architects, dentists and accountants.

    Article 15

    Dependent personal services

  63. 1 -Subject to the provisions of articles 16, 18 and 19, salaries, wages and other similar remuneration derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of an employment shall be taxable only in that State unless the employment is exercised in the other Contracting State. If the employment is so exercised, such remuneration as is derived therefrom may be taxed in that other State.
  64. 2 -Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, remuneration derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of an employment exercised in the other Contracting State shall be taxable only in the first-mentioned State if:
    1. a)The recipient is present in the other State for a period or periods not exceeding in the aggregate 183 days in any twelve-month period commencing or ending in the fiscal year concerned; and
    2. b)The remuneration is paid by, or on behalf of, an employer who is not a resident of the other State; and
    3. c)The remuneration is not borne by a permanent establishment or a fixed base, which the employer has in the other State.
  65. 3 -Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this article, remuneration derived in respect of an employment exercised aboard a ship or aircraft operated in international traffic by an enterprise of a Contracting State may be taxed in that State.

    Article 16

    Directors' fees

    Directors' fees and other similar payments derived by a resident of a Contracting State in that person's capacity as a member of the board of directors, supervisory body or any similar organ of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.

    Article 17

    Entertainers and sportspersons

  66. 1 -Notwithstanding the provisions of articles 14 and 15, income derived by a resident of a Contracting State as an entertainer, such as a theatre, motion picture, radio or television artiste, or a musician, or as a sportsperson, from that person's personal activities as such exercised in the other Contracting State, may be taxed in that other State.
  67. 2 -Where income in respect of personal activities exercised by an entertainer or a sportsperson in that person's capacity as such accrues not to the entertainer or sportsperson but to another person, that income may, notwithstanding the provisions of articles 7, 14 and 15, be taxed in the Contracting State in which the activities of the entertainer or sportsperson are exercised.

    Article 18

    Pensions and annuities

  68. 1 -Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of article 19, pensions and other similar remuneration paid to a resident of a Contracting State in consideration of past employment shall be taxable only in that State.
  69. 2 -An annuity paid to an individual who is a former resident of a Contracting State which has been purchased by that individual by way of a lump sum cash consideration from an insurer in the course of a that insurer's insurance business carried on in that State, may be taxed in that State at a rate not exceeding 12 per cent on the income portion of that annuity which exceeds ten thousand United States dollars ($ 10,000) per annum or its equivalent in the currency of the Contracting States.

    Article 19

    Government service

  70. 1 -a) Salaries, wages and other similar remuneration, other than a pension, paid by a Contracting State or a political or administrative subdivision or a local authority thereof to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State or subdivision or authority shall be taxable only in that State.
    1. b)However, such salaries, wages and other similar remuneration shall be taxable only in the other Contracting State if the services are rendered in that State and the individual is a resident of that State who:
      1. i)Is a national of that State; or
      2. ii)Did not become a resident of that State solely for the purpose of rendering the services.
  71. 2 -a) Any pension paid by, or out of funds created by, a Contracting State or a political or administrative subdivision or a local authority thereof to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State or subdivision or authority shall be taxable only in that State.
    1. b)However, such pension shall be taxable only in the other Contracting State if the individual is a resident of, and a national of, that State.
  72. 3 -The provisions of articles 15, 16, 17 and 18 shall apply to salaries, wages and other similar remuneration, and to pensions, in respect of services rendered in connection with a business carried on by a Contracting State or a political or administrative subdivision or a local authority thereof.

    Article 20

    Professors and researchers

  73. 1 -An individual who visits a Contracting State solely for the purpose of teaching or carrying out research at any non-profit making university, college, school, research institute or similar institution which is accredited by that Contracting State and who is, or immediately before making such visit was, a resident of the other Contracting State, shall be exempt from tax in the first-mentioned State on remuneration for such teaching or research received from outside the first-mentioned State for a period not exceeding two years from the date of the individual's first arrival in that State.
  74. 2 -The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to remuneration in respect of research if such research is undertaken not in the public interest but primarily for the private benefit of a specific person or persons.

    Article 21

    Students, apprentices and business trainees

    A student, apprentice or business trainee who is present in a Contracting State solely for the purpose of that student, apprentice or business trainee's education or training and who is, or immediately before being so present was, a resident of the other Contracting State, shall be exempt from tax in the first-mentioned State on payments received from outside that first-mentioned State for the purposes of the student, apprentice or business trainee's maintenance, education or training.

    Article 22

    Other income

  75. 1 -Items of income of a resident of a Contracting State, wherever arising, not dealt with in the foregoing articles of this Convention shall be taxable only in that State.
  76. 2 -The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to income, other than income from immovable property as defined in paragraph 2 of article 6, if the recipient of such income, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, and the right or property in respect of which the income is paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such case the provisions of article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.

    CHAPTER IV

    Methods for elimination of double taxation

    Article 23

    Elimination of double taxation

    Double taxation shall be eliminated as follows:

    1. a)In Portugal:
      1. i)Where a resident of Portugal derives income which, in accordance with the provisions of this Convention may be taxed in South Africa, Portugal shall allow as a deduction from the tax on the income of that resident an amount equal to the South African tax paid. Such deduction shall not, however, exceed that part of the income tax as computed before the deduction is given, which is attributable to the income which may be taxed in South Africa;
      2. ii)Where in accordance with any provision of the Convention income derived by a resident of Portugal is exempt from tax in this State, Portugal may nevertheless, in calculating the amount of tax on the remaining income of such resident, take into account the exempted income.
    2. b)In South Africa:

      Subject to the provisions of the law of South Africa regarding the deduction from tax payable in South Africa of tax payable in any country other than South Africa (which shall not affect the general principle hereof), Portuguese taxes paid by residents of South Africa in respect of income taxable in Portugal, in accordance with the provisions of this Convention, shall be deducted from the taxes due according to South African fiscal law. Such deduction shall not, however, exceed an amount which bears to the total South African tax payable the same ratio as the income concerned bears to the total income.

      CHAPTER V

      Special provisions

      Article 24

      Non-discrimination

  77. 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 State in the same circumstances, in particular 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.
  78. 2 -The taxation on a permanent establishment which an enterprise of a Contracting State has in the other Contracting State shall not be less favourably levied in that other State than the taxation levied on enterprises of that other 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.
  79. 3 -Except where the provisions of paragraph 1 of article 9, paragraph 7 of article 11, or paragraph 6 of article 12, apply, interest, royalties and other disbursements paid by an enterprise of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, for the purpose of determining the taxable profits of such enterprise, be deductible under the same conditions as if they had been paid to a resident of the first-mentioned State.
  80. 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 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 State are or may be subjected.
  81. 5 -The provisions of this article shall not be construed as preventing a Contracting State from imposing on the profits attributable to a permanent establishment in that Contracting State of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State, a tax at a rate which does not exceed the rate of income tax or normal tax on companies, as the case may be, by more than five percentage points.
  82. 6 -The provisions of this article shall, notwithstanding the provisions of article 2, apply to taxes of every kind and description.

    Article 25

    Mutual agreement procedure

  83. 1 -Where a person considers that the actions of one or both of the Contracting States result or will result for that person in taxation not in accordance with the provisions of this Convention, that person may, irrespective of the remedies provided by the domestic law of those States, present a case to the competent authority of the Contracting State of which the person is a resident or, if the case comes under paragraph 1 of article 24, to that of the Contracting State of which the person is a national. The case must be presented within three years from the first notification of the action resulting in taxation not in accordance with the provisions of the Convention.
  84. 2 -The competent authority shall endeavour, if the objection appears to it to be justified and if it is not itself able to arrive at a satisfactory solution, to resolve the case by mutual agreement with the competent authority of the other Contracting State, with a view to the avoidance of taxation which is not in accordance with the Convention. Any agreement reached shall be implemented notwithstanding any time limits in the domestic law of the Contracting States.
  85. 3 -The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall endeavour to resolve by mutual agreement any difficulties or doubts arising as to the interpretation or application of the Convention. They may also consult together for the elimination of double taxation in cases not provided for in the Convention.
  86. 4 -The competent authorities of the Contracting States may communicate with each other directly for the purpose of reaching an agreement in the sense of the preceding paragraphs. When it seems advisable in order to reach agreement to have an oral exchange of opinions, such exchange may take place through a commission consisting of representatives of the competent authorities of the Contracting States.

    Article 26

    Exchange of information

  87. 1 -The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall exchange such information as is necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Convention or of the domestic laws of the Contracting States concerning taxes covered by the Convention insofar as the taxation thereunder is not contrary to the Convention. The exchange of information is not restricted by the provisions of article 1. Any information received by a Contracting State shall be treated as secret in the same manner as information obtained under the domestic laws of that State and shall be disclosed only to persons or authorities (including courts and administrative bodies) involved in the assessment or collection of, the enforcement or prosecution in respect of, or the determination of appeals in relation to, the taxes covered by the Convention. Such persons or authorities shall use the information only for such purposes. They may disclose the information in public court proceedings or in judicial decisions.
  88. 2 -In no case shall the provisions of paragraph 1 be construed so as to impose on a Contracting State the obligation:
    1. a)To carry out administrative measures at variance with the laws and administrative practice of that or of the other Contracting State;
    2. b)To supply information which is not obtainable under the laws or in the normal course of the administration of that or of the other Contracting State;
    3. c)To supply information which would disclose any trade, business, industrial, commercial or professional secret or trade process, or information, the disclosure of which would be contrary to public policy (ordre public).

      Article 27

      Members of diplomatic missions and consular posts

      Nothing in this Convention shall affect the fiscal privileges of members of diplomatic missions or consular posts under the general rules of international law or under the provisions of special agreements.

      CHAPTER VI

      Final provisions

      Article 28

      Entry into force

  89. 1 -Each of the Contracting States shall notify to the other the completion of the procedures required by its law for the bringing into force of this Convention.
  90. 2 -The Convention shall enter into force thirty days after the date of receipt of the later of the notifications referred to in paragraph 1 and its provisions shall have effect:
    1. a)In Portugal:
      1. i)In respect of taxes withheld at source, the fact giving rise to them appearing on or after the first day of January of the year next following the year in which the Convention enters into force;
      2. ii)In respect of other taxes, as to income arising in any fiscal year beginning on or after the first day of January in the year next following the year in which the Convention enters into force;
    2. b)In South Africa, in respect of years of assessment beginning on or after the first day of January next following the date upon which the Convention enters into force.
  91. 3 -The Agreement between the Contracting States for the Avoidance of Double Taxation in respect of Income derived from the Business of Sea and Air Transport, signed on the 2nd August 1957, shall cease to have effect in respect of taxes concerning any period of time to which this Convention shall apply with regard to such taxes.

    Article 29

    Termination

    This Convention shall remain in force until terminated by a Contracting State. Either Contracting State may terminate the Convention, through the diplomatic channel, by giving notice of termination at least six months before the end of any calendar year beginning after the expiration of a period of five years from the date of its entry into force. In such event, the Convention shall cease to have effect:

    1. a)In Portugal:
      1. i)In respect of taxes withheld at source, the fact giving rise to them appearing on or after the first day of January next following the date on which the period specified in the said notice of termination expires;
      2. ii)In respect of other taxes, as to income arising in the fiscal year beginning on or after the first day of January next following the date on which the period specified in the said notice of termination expires;
    2. b)In South Africa, in respect of years of assessment beginning on or after the first day of January next following the date on which the period specified in the said notice of termination expires.

      In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto, have signed this Convention.

      Done in Lisbon, this thirteen day of November 2006, in duplicate in the Portuguese and English languages, both texts being equally authentic.

      For the Portuguese Republic:

      Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, Minister for Finance.

      For the Republic of South Africa:

      Naledi Pandor, Minister of Education.

      PROTOCOL

      At the moment of signature of the Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income concluded this day between the Portuguese Republic and the Republic of South Africa, the undersigned have agreed upon the following additional provisions, which form an integral part of the Convention:

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  92. 1 -The provisions of paragraph 3 do not hinder the application of any provision of the tax law of a Contracting State concerning the deduction of interest which is in force at the date of signature of this Convention (there being included any future modification of the provisions that does not change the general nature thereof).
  93. 2 -The provisions of paragraph 3 shall be construed in the sense that insofar as the deductibility of the incurred disbursements is concerned, each Contracting State may apply its own procedures regarding the burden of proof.
  94. 3 -It is understood that the provisions of paragraph 5 will only apply while the exemption from Secondary Tax on Companies currently afforded to branches of companies which are not resident in South Africa is in effect.

    Portugal shall not benefit from the provisions of paragraph 5 insofar as taxation similar to the Secondary Tax on Companies of South Africa is not established therein.

    In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto, have signed this Protocol.

    Done in Lisbon, this thirteen day of November 2006, in duplicate in the Portuguese and English languages, both texts being equally authentic.

    For the Portuguese Republic:

    Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, Minister for Finance.

    For the Republic of South Africa:

    Naledi Pandor, Minister of Education.

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