DT13554 - DT: Morocco: double taxation agreement, Article 5: Permanent Establishment
(1) For the purposes of this Convention, the term `permanent
establishment` means a fixed place of business in which the
business of the enterprise is wholly or partly carried on.
(2) The term `permanent establishment` shall include
specifically:
(a) a place of management;
(b) a branch;
(c) premises used as a sales outlet;
(d) an office;
(e) a factory;
(f) a workshop;
(g) a mine, oil well, quarry or other place of extraction of
natural resources;
(h) an installation or structure used for the exploration of
natural resources;
(i) a building site or construction or assembly project
which exists for more than 183 days.
(3) The term `permanent establishment` shall not be deemed to include:
(a) the use of facilities solely for the purpose of storage,
display or delivery of goods or merchandise belonging to the
enterprise;
(b) the maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise
belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of storage,
display or delivery;
(c) the maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise
belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of processing by
another enterprise;
(d) the maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for
the purpose of purchasing goods or merchandise, or for collecting
information, for the enterprise;
(e) the maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for
the purpose of advertising, for the supply of information, for
scientific research or for similar activities which have a
preparatory or auxiliary character, for the enterprise.
(4) A person acting in a Contracting State on behalf of an
enterprise of the other Contracting State - other than an agent of
an independent status to whom the provisions of paragraph (5) of
this Article apply - shall be deemed to be a permanent
establishment in the first-mentioned State if he has, and
habitually exercises in that State, an authority to conclude
contracts in the name of the enterprise, unless his activities are
limited to the purchase of goods or merchandise for the enterprise.
(5) An enterprise of a Contracting State shall not be deemed
to have a permanent establishment in the other Contracting State
merely because it carries on business in that other State through a
broker, general commission agent or any other agent of an
independent status, where such persons are acting in the ordinary
course of their business.
(6) 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.
