Income Tax (Singapore — Sweden) (Avoidance of Double Taxation Convention) (Supplementary) Order 1984
O 27C
G.N. No. S 19/1984
REVISED EDITION 1990
(25th March 1992)
[1st February 1984]
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 the 17th day of June 1968, between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden, arrangements were made amongst other things for the avoidance of Double Taxation:
AND WHEREAS by a Protocol dated the 28th day of September 1983, between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden, the arrangements set out in the said Convention were modified as prescribed in the said Protocol:
NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby 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 Kingdom of Sweden; and
(b)
that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect notwithstanding anything in any written law.