6 DE SETEMBRO DE 1996

1460-(41)

be taxable only in the Contracting State of which the enterprise is a resident.

4 — Gains from the alienation of any property other than that referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall be taxable only in the Contracting State of which the alienator is a resident.

Article 14 Independent personal services

1 — Income derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of professional services or other activities of an independent character shall be taxable only in that State. However, in the following circumstances, such income may be taxed in the other Contracting State, that is to say:

a) If he has a fixed base regularly available to him in the other Contracting State for the purpose of performing his activities: in that case, only so much of the income as is attributable to that fixed base may be taxed in that other State; or

b) If his stay in the other Contracting State is for a period or periods amounting to or exceeding in the aggregate 183 days in any twelve month period commencing or ending in the fiscal year concerned.

2 — The term «professional services* includes espe-cialy independent scientific, literary, artistic, educational or teaching activities as well as the independent activities of physicians, lawyers, engineers, architects, dentists and accountants.

Article 15 Dependent personal services

1 — Subject to the provisions of articles 16, 18, 19, 20 and 21, salaries, wages and other similiar remuneration derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of an employment shall be taxable only in that State unless the employment is exercised in the other Contracting State. If the employment is so exercised, such remuneration as is derived therefrom may be taxed in that other State.

x2—Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, remuneration derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of an employment exercised in the other Contracting State shall be taxable only in the first-mentioned State if:

o) The recipient is present in the other State for a period or periods not exceeding in the aggregate 183 days in any twelve month period commencing or ending in the fiscal year concerned; and

b) The remuneration is paid by, or on behalf of, an employer who is not a resident of the other State; and

c) The remuneration is not borne by a permanent establishment or a fixed base wich the employer has in the other State.

3 — Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this article, remuneration in respect of an employment exercised aboard a ship or aircraft operated in internacional traffic by an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State.

Article 16 Directors' fees

Directors' fees and other similar payments derived by a resident of a Contracting State in his capacity as a member of the board of directors or supervisory board (in Portugal, conselho fiscal), or of another similar organ of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State, provided that remuneration paid by that company to a member of its organs in respect of the exercise of a daily activity shall be taxable according to the provisions of article 15.

Article 17

Artists and sportsmen

1 — Notwithstanding the provisions of articles 14 and 15, income derived be a resident of a Contracting State as an entertainer, .such as a theatre, motion picture, radio or television artist, or a musician, or as a sportsman, from his personal activities as such exercised in the other Contracting State, may be taxed in that other State.

2 — Where income in respect of personal activities exercised by an entertainer or a sportsman in his capacity as such accrues not to the entertainer or sportsman 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 or sportsman are exercised.

3 — Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article, income derived by entertainers or sporstmen who are residents of a Contracting State from the activities exercised in the other Contracting State under a special programme of cultural exchange agreed upon between the governments of both Contracting States, shall be exempt from tax in that other State.

Article 18 Pensions

Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of article 19, pensions and other similar remuneration paid to a resident of a Contracting State in consideration of past employment shall be taxable only in that State.

Article 19 Government service

1 —a) Remuneration, other than a pension, paid by a Contracting State or a political or administrative subdivision or a local authority thereof to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State of subdivision or authority shall be taxable only in that State.

b) However, such remuneration shall be taxable only in the other Contracting State if the services are rendered in that State and the individual is a resident of that State who:

i) Is a national of that State; or

ii) Did not become a resident of that State solely for the purpose of rendering the services.

2 — a) Any pension paid by, or out of funds created by, a Contracting State or a political or administrative subdivision or a local authority thereof to an individual