Article 15 - Independent personal services - Malta (Old - Effective upto 1-4-2015)

Article 15 - Independent personal services - 1. Income derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of professional services or other activities of an independent character shall be taxable only in that State. However, such income may be taxed in the other Contracting State in the following circumstances : (a) if he has a fixed base regularly available to him in the other Contracting State for the purpose of performing his activities in which case only so much of the income as is attributable to that fixed base may be taxed in that other Contracting State ; or (b) if his stay in the other Contracting State is for a period or periods amounting to or exceeding in the aggregate 90 days during any fiscal year. 2. The term professional services includes especially independent scientific, literary, artistic, educational or teaching activities as well as the independent activities of physicians, surgeons, lawyers, engineers, architects, dentists and accountants.