At the moment of signing the Agreement for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital gains, this day concluded between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the undersigned have agreed that the following provisions shall form an integral part of the Agreement.
- I.Ad Article 7 In respect of paragraph 1 of Article 7, profits derived from the sale of goods or merchandise of the same or similar kind as those sold, or from other business activities of the same or similar kind as those effected, through that permanent establishment, may be considered attributable to that permanent establishment. This provision will only be applicable where sales or business activities are effected by an enterprise of one of the States in the other State through other outlets or fixed points than its permanent establishment.
- II.Ad Article 7 Payments received as a consideration for technical services, including studies or surveys of a scientific, geological or technical nature, or for engineering contracts including blue prints related thereto, or for consultant or supervisory services shall be deemed to be profits of an enterprise to which the provisions of Article 7 apply.
- III.Ad Article 8 If the competent authorities of the States have agreed on the basis of Article 25 that profits as meant in Article 8 are derived by an enterprise or enterprises of one of the States from the operation of ships or aircraft in international traffic to or from places in the other State and that such profits are not derived by an enterprise or enterprises of the other State from the operation of ships or aircraft in international traffic to or from places in the first-mentioned State and that such situation has a permanent nature, the condition of reciprocity as envisaged in paragraph 1 of Article 8 is not met and, no exemption shall be granted; in such case, the tax so charged shall be 1 per cent of the earnings of the enterprise derived from the other State.For the purposes of the foregoing sentence, the term "earnings" means income derived by a shipping or air transport enterprise of one of the States from the carriage of passengers, mail, livestock or goods boarded or loaded in the other State, less the refunds and payments of wages and salaries of ground staff and excluding the income derived from the carriage of passengers, mail, livestock or goods which are brought to that other State solely for transhipments or transfer.
- IV.Ad Article 9 It is understood that the fact that associated enterprises have concluded arrangements, such as costsharing arrangements or general services agreements, for or based on the allocation of executive, general administrative, technical and commercial expenses, research and development expenses and other similar expenses, is not in itself a condition as meant in paragraph 1 of Article 9. However, this does not prevent one of the States from checking the above-mentioned arrangements for conditions as meant in paragraph 1 of Article 9.
- V.Ad Articles 10, 11 and 12
- (i)The competent authorities of the States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of the reductions and exemptions from tax in the State of source given by Articles 10, 11 and 12.
- (ii)Where tax has been levied at source in excess of the amount of tax chargeable under the provisions of Articles 10, 11 and 12, applications for refund of the excess amount of tax have to be lodged with the competent authority of the State having levied the tax, within a period of three years after the expiration of the calendar year in which the tax has been levied.
- VI.Ad Article 13 It is understood that the terms corporate organization, reorganization, amalgamation, division or similar transaction refer to a transfer of shares within a group of associated enterprises. In that case the shares will be evaluated for the transferee at the bookvalue of the transferor.
- VII.Ad Article 16 It is understood that "bestuurder" or "commissaris" of a Netherlands company means persons, who are nominated as such by the general meeting of shareholders or by any other competent body of such company and are charged with the general management of the company or the supervision thereof, respectively.
- VIII.Ad Article 24 It is understood that in both States, interest, royalties and other disbursement paid by an enterprise of one of the States to a resident of the other State, for the purpose of determining according to its tax legislation the taxable profits of such enterprise, are deductible in the same way as if they had been paid to a resident of the first-mentioned State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, duly authorized thereto, have signed this Agreement.
DONE at Lagos this 11th day of December, 1991, in duplicate, in the English language.
For the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
(sd.) E. T. J. T. KWINT
Eric T. J. T. Kwint
For the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
(sd.) ALHAJI ABUBAKAR ALHAJI
Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji
