Portugal–United States tax treaty

Article 7 Business profits

Artigo 7.º · Lucros das empresas

Convenção Portugal–Estados Unidos · signed 6 September 1994 · in force 18 December 1995 · English: authentic text

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1 - The business profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on or has carried on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on or has carried on business as aforesaid, the business profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to that permanent establishment.

1 - Os lucros de uma empresa de um Estado Contratante só podem ser tributados nesse Estado, a não ser que a empresa exerça ou tenha exercido a sua actividade no outro Estado Contratante por meio de um estabelecimento estável aí situado. Se a empresa exercer ou tiver exercido a sua actividade deste modo, os seus lucros podem ser tributados no outro Estado, mas unicamente na medida em que forem imputáveis a esse estabelecimento estável.

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2 - Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enterprise of a Contracting State carries on or has carried on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the business profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and independent enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment and with any other associated enterprise.

2 - Com ressalva do disposto no n.º 3, quando uma empresa de um Estado Contratante exercer ou tiver exercido a sua actividade no outro Estado Contratante por meio de um estabelecimento estável aí situado, serão imputados, em cada Estado Contratante, a esse estabelecimento estável os lucros que este obteria se fosse uma empresa distinta e independente que exercesse as mesmas actividades ou actividades similares, nas mesmas condições ou em condições similares, e tratasse com absoluta independência com a empresa de que é estabelecimento estável e com qualquer outra empresa associada.

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3 - In determining the business profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including research and development expenses, interest, and other similar expenses and a reasonable allocation of executive and general administrative expenses, whether incurred in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere.

3 - Na determinação do lucro de um estabelecimento estável é permitido deduzir as despesas que tiverem sido feitas para realização dos fins prosseguidos por esse estabelecimento estável, incluindo as despesas de investigação e desenvolvimento, juros e outras despesas similares, e uma participação razoável nas despesas de direcção e nas despesas gerais de administração efectuadas quer no Estado em que esse estabelecimento estável estiver situado quer fora dele.

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4 - No business profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise.

4 - Nenhum lucro será imputado a um estabelecimento estável pelo facto da simples compra de mercadorias, por esse estabelecimento estável, para a empresa.

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5 - For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the business profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary.

5 - Para efeitos dos números precedentes, os lucros a imputar ao estabelecimento estável serão calculados, em cada ano, segundo o mesmo método, a não ser que existam motivos válidos e suficientes para proceder de forma diferente.

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6 - Where business profits include items of income that are dealt with separately in other articles of the Convention, the provisions of those articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this article.

6 - Quando os lucros compreendam elementos do rendimento especialmente tratados noutros artigos desta Convenção, as respectivas disposições não serão afectadas pelas deste artigo.

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The English column is an authentic text of the Convention, reproduced from the Diário da República publication (Resolution of the Assembly of the Republic No. 39/95), checked against the text published by the US Internal Revenue Service. The Convention was done in Portuguese and English, each text being authentic. The Portuguese text is reproduced from the official publication. Editorial notes are ours and are not part of the Convention.

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