Slovakia - Dividend

Article 10. Dividends

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

2.  However, such dividends may be taxed in the State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, and according to the law of that State, but the tax so charged shall not exceed 10 percent of the gross amount of the dividends. 

3.  Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 2 the State of which the company is a resident shall not levy a tax on dividends paid by that company to a company the capital of which is wholly or partly divided into shares and which is a resident of the other State and holds directly at least 25 percent of the capital of the company paying the dividends. 

4.  The competent authorities of the States shall by mutual agreement settle the mode of application of paragraphs 2 and 3. 

5.  The provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid. 

6.  The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares, "jouissance"shares or "jouissance"rights, mining shares, 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. 

7.  The provisions of paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall not apply if the recipient of the dividends, being a resident of one of the States, bas 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. 

8.  Where a company which is a resident of one of the States derives profits or income from the other State, that other State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid by the company to persons who are not residents of that other State, or subject 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. 

Protocol:

II Ad Articles 10, 11 and 12

Applications for the restitution of tax levied contrary to the provisions of Articles 10, 11 and 12 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.