A4 نسخة نهائية للاتفاقية المتعددة الاطراف MLI English REV4B.indd
Art. 16Status unknownSaudi ArabiaRegulation
Issued by Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA)
Mutual Agreement Procedure
1. Where a person considers that the actions of one or both of the Contracting Jurisdictions
result or will result for that person in taxation not in accordance with the provisions of
the Covered Tax Agreement, that person may, irrespective of the remedies provided by the
domestic law of those Contracting Jurisdictions, present the case to the competent authority
of either Contracting Jurisdiction. The case must be presented within three years from the
first notification of the action resulting in taxation not in accordance with the provisions of
the Covered Tax Agreement.
Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty
JULY 2020
2. The competent authority shall endeavor, if the objection appears to it to be justified and if it
is not itself able to arrive at a satisfactory solution, to resolve the case by mutual agreement
with the competent authority of the other Contracting Jurisdiction, with a view to the
avoidance of taxation which is not in accordance with the Covered Tax Agreement. Any
agreement reached shall be implemented notwithstanding any time limits in the domestic
law of the Contracting Jurisdictions.
3. The competent authorities of the Contracting Jurisdictions shall endeavor to resolve by
mutual agreement any difficulties or doubts arising as to the interpretation or application of
the Covered Tax Agreement. They may also consult together for the elimination of double
taxation in cases not provided for in the Covered Tax Agreement.
4. a) i) The first sentence of paragraph 1 shall apply in place of or in the absence of provisions
of a Covered Tax Agreement (or parts thereof) that provide that where a person
considers that the actions of one or both of the Contracting Jurisdiction result or will
result for that person in taxation not in accordance with the provisions of the Covered
Tax Agreement, that person may, irrespective of the remedies provided by the domestic
law of those Contracting Jurisdictions, present the case to the competent authority of
the Contracting Jurisdiction of which that person is a resident including provisions
under which, if the case presented by that person comes under the provisions of a
Covered Tax Agreement relating to non-discrimination based on nationality, the case
may be presented to the competent authority of the Contracting Jurisdiction of which
that person is a national.
ii) The second sentence of paragraph 1 shall apply in place of provisions of a Covered Tax
Agreement that provide that a case referred to in the first sentence of paragraph 1
must be presented within a specific time period that is shorter than three years from
the first notification of the action resulting in taxation not in accordance with the
provisions of the Covered Tax Agreement, or in the absence of a provision of a Covered
Tax Agreement describing the time period within which such a case must be presented.
b) i) The first sentence of paragraph 2 shall apply in the absence of provisions of a Covered
Tax Agreement that provide that the competent authority that is presented with the
case by the person referred to in paragraph 1 shall endeavor, if the objection appears
to it to be justified and if it is not itself able to arrive at a satisfactory solution, to resolve
the case by mutual agreement with the competent authority of the other Contracting
Jurisdiction, with a view to the avoidance of taxation which is not in accordance with
the Covered Tax Agreement.
ii) The second sentence of paragraph 2 shall apply in the absence of provisions of a
Covered Tax Agreement providing that any agreement reached shall be implemented
notwithstanding any time limits in the domestic law of the Contracting Jurisdictions.
c) i) The first sentence of paragraph 3 shall apply in the absence of provisions of a Covered
Tax Agreement that provide that the competent authorities of the Contracting
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