DT6527 - DT: Egypt: double taxation agreement, Article 28: Entry into force


  1. This Convention shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be exchanged at London 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* and shall thereupon have effect:

  1. in the United Kingdom:

(i) in respect of income tax and capital gains tax, for any year of assessment beginning on or after 6 April 1977; and
(ii) in respect of corporation tax, for any financial year beginning on or after 1 April 1977;
  1. in Egypt:

(i) in respect of tax on income from movable capital and tax on wages, salaries, indemnities and pensions, which taxes are due on or after 1 January 1977;
(ii) in respect of tax on commercial and industrial profits for any accounting period ending on or after 1 January 1977;
(iii) in respect of tax on income derived from immovable property (including the land tax, the building tax and ghaffir tax), tax on profits from liberal professions and all other non-commercial professions and the general income tax, for the calendar year commencing 1 January 1977.

* Instruments of ratification were exchanged on 23 July 1980