Permanent establishment

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....; b) a branch; c) an office; d) a factory; e) a workshop; f) a warehouse in relation to a person providing storage facilities for others; g) a farm, plantation or other place where agricultural, forestry, plantation or related activities are carried on; and h) a mine, an oil or gas well, a quarry or any other place of extraction of natural resources. 3. The term "permanent esta....

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....nce of a fixed place of business solely for the purpose of purchasing goods or merchandise or of collecting information, for the enterprise; e) the maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for the purpose of carrying on, for the enterprise, any other activity of a preparatory or auxiliary character; f) the maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for any combination of activities....

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....make this fixed base of business a permanent establishment under the provisions of that paragraph. 6. An enterprise shall not be deemed to have a permanent establishment in a Contracting State merely because it carries on business in that State through a broker, general commission agent or any other agent of an independent status, provided that such persons are acting in the ordinary course of th....