DT7213 - DT: Finland: double taxation agreement, Article 14: Capital gains

Article 14 was substituted by SI 1985/1997 and Article 14 (2) was substituted by SI 1996/3166. The current Article 14 is as follows:

(1) Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of immovable property, as defined in paragraph (2) of Article 7, situated in the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.

(2) Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of:

(a) shares or other corporate rights, other than shares quoted on an approved Stock Exchange, deriving more than half of their value directly or indirectly from immovable property situated in the other Contracting State, or
(b) an interest in a partnership or trust the assets of which derive more than half of their value from immovable property situated in the other Contracting State, or from shares or other corporate rights referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above,
may be taxed in that other State.

(3) Gains from the alienation of movable property forming part of the business property of a permanent establishment which an enterprise of a Contracting State has in the other Contracting State or of movable property pertaining to a fixed base available to a resident of a Contracting State in the other Contracting State for the purpose of performing independent personal services, including such gains from the alienation of such a permanent establishment (alone or with the whole enterprise) or of such fixed base, may be taxed in that other State.

(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3) of this Article, gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of ships or aircraft operated in international traffic and movable property pertaining to the operation of such ships or aircraft shall be taxable only in that State.

(5) Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of rights to assets to be produced by the exploration or exploitation of the sea bed and sub-soil and their natural resources situated in the other Contracting State, including rights to interests in or to the benefit of such assets or from the alienation of shares deriving their value or the greater part of their value directly or indirectly from such rights, may be taxed in that other State.

(6) Gains from the alienation of any property other than those mentioned in the preceding paragraphs of this Article shall be taxable only in the Contracting State of which the alienator is a resident.

(7) The provisions of paragraph (6) of this Article shall not affect the right of a Contracting State to levy according to its own law a tax on gains from the alienation of any property derived by an individual who is a resident of the other Contracting State and has been a resident of the first-mentioned Contracting State at any time during the five years immediately preceding the alienation of the property.