Indonesia - Dividend

Article 10. Dividends

1. Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of one of the two States to a resident of the other State may be taxed in that other State.

2. However, such dividends may also be taxed in the State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident and according to the laws of that State, but if the beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other State, the tax so charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends.

3. The competent authorities of the two States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of paragraph 2.

4. The provisions of paragraph 2 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.

5. The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares, ``jouissance" shares or ``jouissance" rights, founders' shares or other rights participating in profits, as well as income from debt-claims participating in profits and income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation law of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident.

6. The provisions of paragraph 1 and 2 shall not apply if the recipient of the dividends being a resident of one of the two States, has in the other State, of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, a permanent establishment with which the holding by virtue of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected. In such a case, the provisions of Article 7 shall apply.

7. Where a company which is a resident of one of the two States derives profits or income from the other State, the other State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid by the company to persons who are not residents of that other State, nor subject to the company's undistributed profits to a tax on undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other State.

8. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement where a company which is a resident of one of the two States has a permanent establishment in the other State, the profits of the permanent establishment may be subjected to an additional tax in that other State in accordance with its law, but the additional tax so charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the amount of such profits after deducting therefrom income tax and other taxes on income imposed thereon in that other State.

Protocol:

VIII. With reference to Articles 10, 11 and 12

Where tax has been levied at source in excess of the amount of tax chargeable under the provisions of Article 10, 11 and 12, applications for the 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.