DT3878 - Botswana: double taxation agreement, Article 14: Dependent personal services


This agreement applies for periods before the new comprehensive agreement has effect (see DT3850).


  1. Subject to the provisions of Articles 15, 17 and 18, salaries, wages and other similar remuneration derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of an employment may be taxed in that State. However, if the employment is exercised in whole or in part in the other Contracting State then, to the extent that the employment is so exercised, such remuneration as is derived therefrom may also be taxed in that other State.

  2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article remuneration derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of an employment exercised in the other Contracting State shall not be taxed in that other State if:

  1. the recipient of the remuneration is present in that other State for a period or periods not exceeding in the aggregate 183 days in the fiscal year concerned; and

  2. the remuneration is paid by, or on behalf of, an employer who is a resident of the first-mentioned State; and

  3. the remuneration is subject to tax in the first-mentioned State.

  1. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Article, remuneration in respect of an employment exercised aboard a ship or aircraft in international traffic may be taxed in the Contracting State of which the person deriving the profits from the operation of the ship or aircraft is a resident.