Lithuania's State Tax Inspectorate (STI) has published the synthesized texts of the tax treaties with Norway and Ukraine as impacted by the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (MLI). The synthesized texts were prepared on the basis of the reservations and notifications submitted to the Depositary by the respective countries. The authentic legal texts of the treaties and the MLI take precedence and remain the legal texts applicable.

The MLI applies for the 1993 Lithuania-Norway tax treaty:

• with respect to taxes withheld at source on amounts paid or credited to non-residents, where the event giving rise to such taxes occurs on or after 1 January 2020; and
• with respect to all other taxes levied by a Contracting State, for taxes levied with respect to taxable periods beginning on or after 1 May 2020.

The MLI applies for the 1993 Lithuania-Ukraine tax treaty:

• with respect to taxes withheld at source on amounts paid or credited to non-residents, where the event giving rise to such taxes occurs on or after 1 January 2020; and
• with respect to all other taxes levied by a Contracting State, for taxes levied with respect to taxable periods beginning on or after 1 June 2020.

Notwithstanding the above, Article 16 of the MLI (Mutual Agreement Procedure) applies in respect of a case presented to the competent authority of a Contracting State on or after 1 December 2019, except for cases that were not eligible to be presented as of that date under the treaty prior to its modification by the MLI, without regard to the taxable period to which the case relates.

MLI synthesized texts of Lithuania's tax treaties can be found on the STI tax treaty webpage.