ARTICLE 27
Collection Assistance
(1) The competent authorities of the Contracting States undertake to lend assistance to each other in the collection of taxes, together with interest, costs, and civil penalties relating to such taxes, referred to in this Article as a "revenue claim".
(2) Requests for assistance by the competent authority of a Contracting State in the collection of a revenue claim shall include a certificate by such an authority that, under the laws of that state, the revenue claim has been finally determined. For the purposes of this Article, a revenue claim is finally determined when a Contracting State has right under its internal law to collect the revenue claim and taxpayer has no further rights to restrain collection.
(3) A revenue claim of a Contracting State that has been accepted for collection by the competent authority of the Contracting State shall be collected by the other State as though such claim were the other State's own revenue claim as finally determined in accordance with the provisions of its laws relating to the collection of its taxes.
(4) Amounts collected by the competent authority of the Contracting State pursuant to this Article shall be forwarded to the competent authority of the other Contracting State. However, except, where the competent authorities of the Contracting States otherwise agree, the ordinary costs incurred in providing collection assistance shall be borne by the first-mentioned State and any extraordinary costs so incurred shall be borne by the other State.
(5) No assistance shall be provided under this Article for a revenue claim of a Contracting State in respect of a taxpayer to the extent that the revenue claim relates to a period during which the taxpayer was a resident of the other Contracting State.
(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 2 (Taxes Covered), the provisions of this Article shall apply to all taxes collected by or on behalf of a Contracting State.
(7) Nothing in this Article shall be construed as imposing on either Contracting State the obligation to carry out administrative measures of a different nature from those used in the collection of its own taxes or that would be contrary to its public policy (ordre public).