20 DE MARÇO DE 1997

440-(41)

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.

3 — Gains from the alienation of ships or aircraft operated in international traffic or movable property per: taming to (he operation of such ships or aircraft shall be taxable only in the Contracting State in which the place of effective management of the entreprise is situated.

4 — Gains from the alienation of shares or other' rights in a company which assets principally, directly or indirectly, consist of immovable property situated in a Contracting State or rights pertaining to such immovable property, may be taxed in that State.

5 — Gains from the alienation of shares, other than those sold through a recognized stock exchange of the Contracting State, that represent a participation of more than 25 percent of the stock of a company resident of a Contracting State may be taxed in that State.

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

Article 14 Independent personal services

1 — Income derived by an individual who is 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, such income may also be taxed in the other Contracting State if:

a) The individual has a fixed base regularly available to him in that other State for the purpose of performing his activities, but only so much thereof as is attributable to that fixed base; or

b) The remuneration for his activities in the other Contracting State is paid by or on behalf of a resident of the other Contracting State or is borne by a permanent establishment or a fixed base situated in that Contracting State and exceeds in the fiscal year a gross amount equivalent to US$ 20,000.

2 — The term «professional services» includes especially independent scientific, literary, artistic, educational or teaching activities as well as the independent activities of physicians, lawyers, engineers, architects, den-tists and accountants.

Article 15 Dependent personal services

1 — Subject to the provisions of articles 16, 18, 19 and 21, salaries, wages and other similar 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.

2 — 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:

a) 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 which the employer has in the other State.

3 — Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this article, remuneration derived in respect of an employment exercised aboard a ship or aircraft operated in international traffic may be taxed in the Contracting State in which the place of effective management of the enterprise is situated.

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 any similar body of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.

Article 17 Artistes and sportsmen

1 — Notwithstanding the provisions of articles 14 and 15, income derived by a resident of a Contracting State as an entertainer, such as a theatre, motion picture, radio or television artiste, 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.

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) Salaries, wages and other similar 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 or subdivision or authority shall be taxable only in that State.