DT17420 - DT: South Africa: double taxation agreement, Article 21: Personal allowances

This Agreement applies in the UK up to 31 March 2003 (CT) and 2002/3 (IT) and in South Africa up to 31 December 2002. For later periods see “New treaties/protocols in force” on the left-hand bar on the DT manual.

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (3) of this Article, individuals who are residents of South Africa shall be entitled to the same personal allowances, reliefs and reductions for the purposes of United Kingdom taxation as British subjects not resident in the United Kingdom.

(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (3) of this Article, individuals who are residents of the United Kingdom shall be entitled to the same personal allowances reliefs and reductions for the purposes of South African tax as South African citizens not resident in South Africa.

(3) Nothing in this Convention shall entitle an individual who is a resident of a Contracting State and whose income from the other Contracting State consists solely of dividends, interest or royalties (or solely of any combination thereof) to the personal allowances, reliefs and reductions of the kind referred to in this Article for the purposes of taxation in that other State.