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No. S 603

Income Tax Act

(CHAPTER 134)

Income Tax (Singapore — Russia)
(Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement)
Order 2016

WHEREAS it is provided by section 49 of the Income Tax Act that if the Minister by order declares that arrangements specified in the order have been made with the government of any country outside Singapore with a view to affording relief from double taxation in relation to tax under the Act and any tax of a similar character imposed by the laws of that country, and that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect, the arrangements have effect in relation to tax under the Act notwithstanding anything in any written law:

AND WHEREAS by an Agreement dated 9 September 2002, between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the Russian Federation, arrangements were made, amongst other things, for the avoidance of double taxation:

AND WHEREAS by a Protocol dated 17 November 2015, between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the Russian Federation, the arrangements set out in the said Agreement were modified as prescribed in the said Protocol:

NOW, THEREFORE, it is declared by the Minister for Finance —

(a)	that the arrangements, as modified by the said Protocol specified in the Schedule to this Order, have been made with the Government of the Russian Federation; and
(b)	that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect notwithstanding anything in any written law.

Made on 25 November 2016.

LIM SOO HOON

Permanent Secretary
(Finance) (Performance),
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[R32.2.0069 V.5; AG/LEGIS/SL/134/2015/3 Vol. 1]