Company: BLRX
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001178913-25-001123
Chunk: 283

Company: BioLineRx Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 10
Chunk 283
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 may not, in general, exceed 25%. Where the recipient is a U.S. corporation owning 10% or more of the voting stock of the paying corporation during the part of the paying corporation’s taxable year which precedes the date of payment of the dividend and during the whole of its prior taxable year (if any) and the dividend is not paid from the profits of a Benefited Enterprise, the Israeli tax withheld may not exceed 12.5%, subject to certain conditions.
 
A “substantial shareholder” is generally a person who alone, or together with his relative or another person who collaborates with him on a regular basis, holds, directly or indirectly, at least 10% of any of the “means of control” of the corporation. “Means of control” generally include the right to vote, receive profits, nominate a director, a general manager of the company or holders of similar offices in other bodies of persons, receive assets upon liquidation, or instruct someone who holds any of the aforesaid rights regarding the manner in which he or she is to exercise such right(s), and all regardless of the source of such right.
 
A non-resident of Israel who receives dividends from which tax was withheld is generally exempt from the duty to file returns in Israel in respect of such income, provided that: (1) such income was not derived from a business conducted in Israel by the taxpayer (2) the taxpayer has no other taxable sources of income in Israel with respect to which a tax return is required to be filed and (3) the taxpayer is not obliged to pay excess tax.
 
Payers of dividends on our shares, including the Israeli stockbroker effectuating the transaction or the financial institution through which the securities are held, are required, subject to any of the foregoing exemptions, reduced tax rates and the demonstration of a shareholder of his, her or its foreign residency, to withhold taxes upon the distribution of dividends at a rate of 25%, provided that the shares are registered with a nominee company.
 
Taxation of Capital Gains.  Israeli law imposes a capital gains tax on the sale or exchange of any capital assets by residents of Israel, as defined for Israeli tax purposes, and on the sale or exchange of assets located in Israel, including shares in Israeli companies, by non-residents of Israel, unless a specific exemption is available pursuant to the Israeli Tax Ordinance or the regulations thereunder or unless a tax treaty between Israel and the shareholder’s country of residence provides otherwise and subject to the receipt in