Venezuela (Venezuela)
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME Article 1 PERSONAL SCOPE This Agreement shall apply to persons who are residents of one or both of the Contracting States. Article 2 TAXES COVERED This Agreement shall apply to taxes on income imposed on behalf of each Contracting State, irrespective of the manner in which they are levied. There shall be regarded as taxes on income all taxes imposed on total income or on elements of income, including taxes on gains from the alienation of movable or immovable property, [and] taxes on the total amounts of wages or salaries paid by enterprises. The existing taxes to which the Agreement shall apply are in particular: (a) in the case of Venezuela: the taxes on income and the business assets tax (hereinafter referred to as “Venezuelan tax”); (b) in the case of Indonesia: the income tax imposed under the Undang-undang Pajak Penghasilan 1984 (Law No. 7 of 1983 as amended) (hereinafter referred to as “Indonesian tax”). The Agreement shall apply also to any identical or substantially similar taxes which are imposed after the date of signature of the Agreement in addition to, or in place of, the existing taxes. At the end of each year, the competent authorities of the Contracting States shall notify each other of relevant changes which have been made in their respective taxation laws. Article 3 GENERAL DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) (i) the term “Venezuela” means the Republic of Venezuela; (ii) the term “Indonesia” comprises the territory of the Republic of Indonesia as defined in its laws and the adjacent areas over which the Republic of Indonesia has sovereignty, sovereign rights or jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982; (b) the term “person” includes an inpidual, a company and any other body of persons; (c) the term “company” means any body corporate or any entity which is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes; (d) 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; (e) the term “international traffic” means any transport by 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; (f) the term “competent authority” means: (i) in the case of Venezuela, the Superintendent of the Integrated National Service of Tax Administration (Servicio Nacional Integrado de Administración Tributaria-SENIAT), its authorized representative or the authority which is designated by the Minister of Finance as a competent authority for the purposes of the Agreement; (ii) in the case of Indonesia, the Minister of Finance or his authorized representative; (g) the term “national” means: (i) any inpidual possessing the nationality of a Contracting State; (ii) any legal person, partnership or association deriving its status as such from the laws in force in a Contracting State. As regards the application of the Agreement by a Contracting State any term not defined therein shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning which it has under the law of that State concerning the taxes to which the Agreement applies. Article 4 RESIDENT For the purpose of this Agreement, 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 his domicile, residence, place of management, place of incorporation or any other criterion of a similar nature. In the case of Venezuela, the term includes any resident person or company subject to the Venezuelan territorial system of taxation. Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 an inpidual is a resident of both Contracting States, then his status shall be determined as follows: (a) he shall be deemed to be a resident of the State in which he has a permanent home available to him; if he has a permanent home available to him in both States, he shall be deemed to be a resident of the State with which his personal and economic relations are closer (centre of vital interests); (b) if the State in which he has his centre of vital interests cannot be determined, or if he does not have a permanent home available to him in either State, he shall be deemed to be a resident of the State in which he has an habitual abode; (c) if he has an habitual abode in both States or in neither of them, he shall be deemed to be a resident of the State of which he is a national; (d) if he has a national of both States or of neither of them, the competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the question by mutual agreement. Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 a person other than an inpidual is a resident of both Contracting States, the competent authorities of the States shall settle the question by mutual agreement. Article 5 PERMANENT ESTABLISHMENT For the purposes of this Agreement, the term “permanent establishment” means a fixed place of business through which the business of an enterprise is wholly or partly carried on. The term “permanent establishment” includes especially: (a) a place of management; (b) a branch; (c) an office; (d) a factory; (e) a workshop, (f) a warehouse in relation to a person providing storage facilities for others; (g) a store or other sales outlet; (h) a farm or plantation; (i) a mine, an oil or gas well, a quarry or any other place of extraction or exploration of natural resources, drilling rig or working ship used for exploration or exploitation of natural resources.