Permanent Establishment

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....ation of natural resources provided that the activities continue for more than 183 days. 3. [MODIFIED by paragraph 1 of Article 14 of the MLI] [ A building site or construction, installation or assembly project constitutes a permanent establishment only where such site or project continues for a period of more than six months.] The following paragraph 1 of Article 14 of the MLI applies and supersedes paragraph 3 of Article 5 of this Convention: ARTICLE 14 OF THE MLI - SPLITTING-UP OF CONTRACTS For the sole purpose of determining whether the period (or periods) referred to [in paragraph 3 of Article 5 of the Convention] has been exceeded: (a) where an enterprise of a [Contracting State] carries on activities in the other [Contracting S....

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....permanent establishment" shall be deemed not to include: (a) the use of facilities solely for the purpose of storage or display of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise; (b) the maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of storage of display; (c) the maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of processing by another enterprise; (d) the maintenance of fixed place of business solely for the purpose of purchasing goods or merchandise, or of collecting information, for the enterprise; (e) the maintenance of fixed place of business solely for the purpose of advertising, for the supply of information, for scien....

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....paratory or auxiliary character, for the enterprise; (b) the maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for the purpose of carrying on, for the enterprise, any activity not described in subparagraph a); (c) the maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for any combination of activities mentioned in subparagraphs a) and b), provided that such activity or, in the case of subparagraph c), the overall activity of the fixed place of business, is of a preparatory or auxiliary character. The following paragraph 4 of Article 13 of the MLI applies to paragraph 4 of Article 5 of the Convention as modified by paragraph 2 of Article 13 of the MLI: [Paragraph 4 of Article 5 of the Convention, as modified by paragraph 2 of Article 13 of....

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.... no such authority, but habitually maintains in the first-mentioned State a stock of goods or merchandise from which he regularly delivers goods or merchandise on behalf of the enterprise; 6. An enterprise of one of the States shall not be deemed to have a permanent establishment in the other State merely because it carries on business in that other State through a broker, a general commission agent or any other agent of an independent status, provided that such persons are acting in the ordinary course of their business. However, when the activities of such an agent are devoted wholly or almost wholly on behalf of that enterprise, he will not be considered an agent of an independent status within the meaning of this paragraph if it is sho....