ARTICLE VI
Dividends
(1) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.
(2) However, such dividends may be taxed in the Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a resident according to the law of that State, but the tax so charged shall not exceed 25 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends.
This paragraph shall not affect the taxation of the company in respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
(3) The term "dividends" as used in this Article means income from shares, "jouissance" shares or "jouissance" rights, mining shares, founders' shares or other rights, not being debt-claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights assimilated to income from shares by the taxation law of the State of which the company making the distribution is a resident, and shall include in the case of the Federal Republic of Germany distributions on investment trust certificates and income derived by a sleeping partner from his participation as such.
(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply where a resident of a Contracting State carries on a trade or business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein and such dividends are attributable to that permanent establishment; in such event Article III of this Agreement is applicable.