Vietnam (Vietnam)
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM 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 a Contracting State or of its political subpisions or local authorities, 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: (a) in Indonesia: the income tax imposed under the Income Tax Law 1984 (Law no. 7 of 1983 as amended); (hereinafter referred to as “Indonesian tax”); (b) in Vietnam: (i) the personal income tax; (ii) the profit tax; and (iii) the profit remittance tax (hereinafter referred to as “Vietnamese tax”). The Agreement shall also apply to any identical or substantially similar taxes which are imposed after the date of signature of this Agreement 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 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) 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 “Vietnam” means the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; when used in a geographical sense, it means all its national territory, including its territorial sea and any area beyond and adjacent to its territorial sea, within which Vietnam by Vietnamese legislation and in accordance with international law, has sovereign rights or exploration for and exploitation of natural resources of the seabed and its subsoil and superjacent waters; (c) the terms “a Contracting State” and “the other Contracting State” mean Vietnam or Indonesia, as the context requires; (d) the term “person” includes an inpidual, a company and any other body of persons; (e) the term “company” means any body corporate or any entity which is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes; (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; (g) the term “national” means: (i) any inpidual possessing the nationality of a Contracting State; (ii) any legal person, partnership and association deriving its status as such from the laws in force in a Contracting State; (h) 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; and (i) the term “competent authority” means: (i) in the case of Indonesia, the Minister of Finance or his authorized representative; and (ii) in the case of Vietnam, the Minister of Finance or his authorized representative. 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 purposes 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, or any other criterion of a similar nature. But this term does not include any person who is liable to tax in that State in respect only of income from sources in that State or capital situated therein. 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 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 Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 a person other than an inpidual is a resident of both Contracting States, then it shall be deemed to be a resident of the State in which its place of effective management is situated. 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 the 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;