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No. S 704

Income Tax Act

(CHAPTER 134)

Income Tax
(Singapore — Ethiopia)
(Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement)
Order 2017

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 despite anything in any written law:

AND WHEREAS by an Agreement dated 24 August 2016, between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, arrangements were made, amongst other things, for the avoidance of double taxation:

AND WHEREAS by a Protocol dated 24 August 2016, between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, 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 specified in the Schedule to this Order have been made with the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; and
(b)	that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect despite anything in any written law.

Made on 30 November 2017.

TAN CHING YEE

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[MF(R) R32.002.2903 Vol. 1; AG/LEGIS/SL/134/2015/3 Vol. 2]