Replaced by new DTA, which applies in UK from 1st April 2003 for
CT, 6th April 2003 for IT and 1st January 2004 for PRT. For US
withholding taxes it applies from 1st May 2003 and for other US
taxes from 1st January 2004. See DT19939T.
(1) This Convention shall be ratified and the instruments of
ratification shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible.
(2) This Convention shall enter into force immediately after
the expiration of thirty days following the date on which the
instruments of ratification are exchanged (a), and shall thereupon
have effect:
(i) in relation to any dividend to which sub-paragraph
(2)(a)(ii) of Article 10 (Dividends) applies, in respect of income
tax and payment of tax credit, for any year of assessment beginning
on or after 6 April 1973. A dividend paid on or after 1 April 1973
and before 6 April 1973 shall be treated for tax credit purposes as
paid on 6 April 1973;
(ii) in relation to paragraph (4) of Article 4 (Fiscal
residence), for any year of assessment beginning on or after 6
April 1976:
(iii) in relation to sub-paragraph (2)(a)(i) of Article 10
(Dividends) and any other provision of this Convention, in respect
of income tax and payment of tax credit and in respect of capital
gains tax, for any year of assessment beginning on or after 6 April
1975;
(iv) in respect of corporation tax, for any financial year
beginning on or after 1 April 1975; and
(v) in respect of petroleum revenue tax, for any chargeable
period beginning on or after 1 January 1975;
(b) in the United States:
(i) in respect of credits against United States tax allowed
under paragraph (1) of Article 23 (Elimination of double taxation),
for taxes paid to the United Kingdom on or after 1 April 1973;
(ii) in respect of tax withheld at the source, for amounts
paid or credited on or after 1 January 1975; and
(iii) in respect of other taxes, for taxable years beginning
on or after 1 January 1975.
(3) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (4) of this
Article the Convention between the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland and the United States of America for the
Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion
with respect to Taxes on Income signed at Washington on 16 April
1945 as amended by the Supplementary Protocol signed at Washington
on 6 June 1946, by the Supplementary Protocol signed at Washington
on 25 May 1954, by the Supplementary Protocol signed at Washington
on 19 August 1957, and by the Supplementary Protocol signed at
London on 17 March 1966, (hereinafter referred to as `the 1945
Convention`), shall cease to have effect in respect of taxes to
which this Convention in accordance with the provisions of
paragraph (2) of this Article applies.
(4) Where any provision of the 1945 Convention would have
afforded any greater relief from tax any such provision as
aforesaid shall continue to have effect:
(a) in the United Kingdom, for any year of assessment or
financial year; and
(b) in the United States, for any taxable year,
beginning, in either case, before 1 January 1976.
(5) The 1945 Convention shall terminate on the last date on
which it has effect in accordance with the foregoing provisions of
this Article.
(6) This Convention shall not affect any Agreement in force
extending the 1945 Convention in accordance with Article XXII
thereof.
(7) Notwithstanding any provisions of the respective
domestic laws of the Contracting States imposing time limits for
applications for relief from tax, an application for relief under
the provisions of this Convention shall have effect and any
consequential refunds of tax made, if the application is made to
the competent authority concerned within three years of the end of
the calendar year in which this Convention enters into force.
