DT6516 - DT: Egypt: double taxation agreement, Article 17: Public entertainers


  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 14 and 15, income derived by public entertainers (such as theatre, motion picture, radio or television artistes, musicians and athletes) from their personal activities as such may be taxed in the Contracting State in which those activities are exercised.

  2. Where income in respect of personal activities as such of an entertainer accrues not to that entertainer himself but to another person that income may, notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 7, 14 and 15, be taxed in the Contracting State in which the activities of the entertainer are exercised.

  3. Where the services mentioned in paragraph (1) of this Article are provided in one of the Contracting States by an enterprise of the other Contracting State, then the income derived from providing those services by such enterprise shall be exempt from tax in the first-mentioned Contracting State, if the enterprise is directly or indirectly supported, wholly or substantially, from the public funds of the Government of that other Contracting State in connection with the provision of such services.