Article 24A - Resident of a Contracting State - Singapore

1 [ARTICLE 24A 1. A resident of a Contracting State shall not be entitled to the benefits of paragraph 4A or paragraph 4C of Article 13 of this Agreement if its affairs were arranged with the primary purpose to take advantage of the benefits in the said paragraph 4A or paragraph 4C of Article 13 of this Agreement, as the case may be. 2. A shell or conduit company that claims it is a resident of a Contracting State shall not be entitled to the benefits of paragraph 4A or paragraph 4C of Article 13 of this Agreement. A shell or conduit company is any legal entity falling within the definition of resident with negligible or nil business operations or with no real and continuous business activities carried out in that Contracting State. 3. A resident of a Contracting State is deemed to be a shell or conduit company if its annual expenditure on operations in that Contracting State is less than S$ 200,000 in Singapore or Indian Rs. 5,000,000 in India, as the case may be: (a) in the case of paragraph 4A of Article 13 of this Agreement, for each of the 12 month periods in the immediately preceding period of 24 months from the date on which the gains arise; (b) in the case of paragraph 4C of Article 13 of this Agreement, for the immediately preceding period of 12 months from the date on which the gains arise. 4. A resident of a Contracting State is deemed not to be a shell or conduit company if: (a) it is listed on a recognised stock exchange of the Contracting State; or (b) its annual expenditure on operations in that Contracting State is equal to or more than S$ 200,000 in Singapore or Indian Rs. 5,000,000 in India, as the case may be: (i) in the case of paragraph 4A of Article 13 of this Agreement, for each of the 12-month periods in the immediately preceding period of 24 months from the date on which the gains arise; (ii) in the case of paragraph 4C of Article 13 of this Agreement, for the immediately preceding period of 12 months from the date on which the gains arise. 5. For the purpose of paragraph 4(a) of this Article, a recognised stock exchange means: (a) in the case of Singapore, the securities market operated by the Singapore Exchange Limited, Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited and The Central Depository (Pte) Limited; and (b) in the case of India, a stock exchange recognised by the Securities and Exchange Board of India. Explanation: The cases of legal entities not having bona fide business activities shall be covered by paragraph 1 of this Article. ] ***************** NOTES: - 1 . Inserted vide Notification No. 18/2017 dated 23-03-2017 w.e.f. 01-04-2017