Income Tax (Relief From Double Taxation) (Pakistan) Order, 2009

No. S47

INCOME TAX

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INCOME TAX

(RELIEF FROM DOUBLE TAXATION) !PAKISTAN) ORDER, 2009

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection (1) of section 41 of the Income Tax Act

(Chapter 35) that if His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council by order declares that arrangements specified in the order have been made with the

Government of any territory outside Brunei Darussalam with a view to affording relief from double taxation in relation to tax under that Act and any tax of similar character imposed by the laws of that territory, and that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect, the arrangements shall have effect in relation to tax under he Act notwithstanding anything in any written law.

AND WHEREAS by an Agreement dated the 20th. day of November, 2008

between the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of

Brunei Darussalam and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, arrangements were made amongst other things for relief from double taxation.

NOW THEREFORE it is hereby declared by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang

Di-Pertuan in Council -

(a}

that the arrangements specified in the Schedule have been made with the

Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; and

that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect notwithstanding anything in any written law.