DT8401 - DT: Grenada: double taxation agreement, Article 2: General definitions

(1) In this Arrangement, unless the context otherwise requires -

(a) The term United Kingdom means Great Britain and Northern Ireland, excluding the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
(b) (Deleted by SI 1968/1867)
(c) The terms one of the territories and the other territory mean the United Kingdom or Grenada, as the context requires.
(d) The term tax means United Kingdom tax or Grenada tax, as the context requires.
(e) The term person includes any body of persons, corporate or not corporate.
(f) The term company includes any body corporate.
(g) The terms resident of the United Kingdom and resident of Grenada mean respectively any person who is resident in the United Kingdom for the purposes of United Kingdom tax and not resident in Grenada for the purposes of Grenada tax and any person who is resident in Grenada for the purposes of Grenada tax and not resident in the United Kingdom for the purposes of United Kingdom tax; and a company shall be regarded as resident in the United Kingdom if its business is managed and controlled in the United Kingdom and as resident in Grenada if its business is managed and controlled in Grenada.
(h) The terms resident of one of the territories and resident of the other territory mean a person who is a resident of the United Kingdom or a person who is a resident of Grenada, as the context requires.
(i) The terms ` United Kingdom enterprise and Grenada enterprise mean respectively an industrial or commercial enterprise or undertaking carried on by a resident of the United Kingdom and an industrial or commercial enterprise or undertaking carried on by a resident of Grenada; and the terms enterprise of one of the territories and enterprise of the other territory mean a United Kingdom enterprise or a Grenada enterprise, as the context requires. (j) The term industrial or commercial profits includes rentals in respect of cinematograph films. (k) The term permanent establishment`, when used with respect to an enterprise of one of the territories, means a branch, management or other fixed place of business, but does not include an agency unless the agent has, and habitually exercises, a general authority to negotiate and conclude contracts on behalf of such enterprise or has a stock of merchandise from which he regularly fills orders on its behalf.

An enterprise of one of the territories shall not be deemed to have a permanentestablishment in the other territory merely because it carries on business dealings inthat other territory through a bona fide broker or general commission agent acting in theordinary course of his business as such.

The fact that an enterprise of one of the territories maintains in the other territory afixed place of business exclusively for the purchase of goods or merchandise shall not ofitself constitute that fixed place of business a permanent establishment of theenterprise.

The fact that a company which is a resident of one of the territories has a subsidiarycompany which is a resident of the other territory or which is engaged in trade orbusiness in that other territory (whether through a permanent establishment or otherwise)shall not of itself constitute that subsidiary company a permanent establishment of itsparent company.

(2) Where under this Arrangement any income is exempt from tax in one of the territoriesif (with or without other conditions) it is subject to tax in the other territory, andthat income is subject to tax in that other territory by reference to the amount thereofwhich is remitted to or received in that other territory, the exemption to be allowedunder this Arrangement in the first-mentioned territory shall apply only to the amount soremitted or received.

(3) In the application of the provisions of this Arrangement by the United Kingdom orGrenada, any term not otherwise defined shall, unless the context otherwise requires, havethe meaning which it has under the laws of the United Kingdom, or, as the case may be,Grenada, relating to the taxes which are the subject of this Arrangement.