DT5611 - DT: Czechoslovakia: double taxation agreement, Article 12: Royalties

(1) Royalties arising in a Contracting State which are derived and beneficially owned by a resident of the other Contracting State shall be taxable only in that other State.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article, royalties of the kind referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(a) below may also be taxed in the Contracting State in which they arise and according to the laws of that State, but if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the royalties the amount so charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the gross amount of the royalties.

(3) The term `royalties` as used in this Article means payments of any kind received as a consideration for:

(a) the use of, or the right to use, any patent, trade mark, design or model, plan, secret formula or process. or for the use of, or the right to use, any industrial, commercial or scientific equipment, or for information concerning industrial, commercial, technical, technological or scientific experience; (b) the use of, or the right to use, any copyright of literary, artistic or scientific work (including cinematograph films, and films or tapes for radio and television broadcasting).

(4) The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Article shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the royalties, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on business in the other Contracting State in which the royalties arise, through a permanent establishment situated therein. or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, and the right or property in respect of which the royalties are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14 of this Convention, as the case may be, shall apply.

(5) Royalties shall be deemed to arise in a Contracting State where the payer is that State itself, a political subdivision, a local authority or a resident of that State. Where, however, the person paying the royalties, whether he is a resident of a Contracting State or not, has in a Contracting State a permanent establishment in connection with which the obligation to pay the royalties was incurred and the royalties are borne by that permanent establishment, then the royalties shall be deemed to arise in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated.

(6) Where, owing to a special relationship between the payer and the beneficial owner or between both of them and some other person, the amount of the royalties paid exceeds, for whatever reason, the amount which would have been agreed upon by the payer and the beneficial owner in the absence of such relationship, the provisions of this Article shall apply only to the last-mentioned amount. In that case, the excess part of the payments shall remain taxable according to the law of each Contracting State, due regard being had to the other provisions of this Convention.