Income Tax (Singapore — Finland) (Avoidance of Double Taxation Convention) Order 1982
O 11
G.N. No. S 256/1982
REVISED EDITION 1990
(25th March 1992)
[24th September 1982]
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 shall have effect in relation to tax under the Act notwithstanding anything in any written law:
AND WHEREAS by a Convention dated 23rd day of October 1981, between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the Republic of Finland, arrangements were made amongst other things for the avoidance of Double Taxation:
NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby declared by the Minister for Finance —
(a)
that the arrangements specified in the Schedule to this Order have been made with the Government of the Republic of Finland; and
(b)
that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect notwithstanding anything in any written law.