Proclamation giving notice that the annexed November 30, 1995 supplementary agreement, entitled Protocol to the Tax Convention Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the French Republic signed on May 2, 1975 and amended by the Protocol of January 16, 1987, came into force on September 1, 1998 — “ARTICLE 10
t to the extent that the prepayment has effectively been paid by the company with respect to the dividends. The gross amount of the prepayment refunded shall be deemed to be a dividend for the purposes of the Convention. It may be taxed in France in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2. 5 The term dividends as used in this Article means income from shares, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining shares, founders’ shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income which is subjected to the taxation treatment of distributions or to same taxation treatment as income from shares by the laws of the Contracting State of which the company making the distribution is a resident. 6 The provisions of paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 shall not apply if the beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on business in the other Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident, through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, and the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply. 7 Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting State derives profits or income from the other Contracting State, that other State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid by the company, except insofar as such dividends are paid to a resident of that other State or insofar as the holding in respect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with a permanent establishment or a fixed base situated in that other State, nor 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. 8 Nothing in the Convention shall prevent a Contracting State from imposing on the earnings attributable to a permanent establishment, situated in that State, of a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State a tax in addition to the tax allowable under the other provisions of the Convention, provided that any additional tax so imposed shall not exceed 5 per cent of the amount of such earnings. This additional tax shall also apply to profits or gains derived from the alienation of immovable property situated in a Contracting State by a company which is a resident of the other Contracting State, whether or not that company has a permanent establishment in the first-mentioned State. For the purpose of this provision, the term earnings means the profits or gains after deducting therefrom the taxes, other than the additional tax referred to herein, imposed on such profits or gains by the first-mentioned State.”