28 May 2015 IFA Roundtable Q. 12, 2015-0581521C6 - IFA 2015 Q.12: Canada-Switzerland Treaty -- summary under Income Tax Conventions

A corporation resident in Switzerland ("Swissco") wholly-owns "Holdco," which wholly-owns "Canco"). S. 214(3)(a) deems Canco to pay a dividend to Swissco. The rate of withholding tax would be 15% under the English version of the Swiss Treaty but 5% under the French version. How would Art. 10(2)(a) of the Swiss Treaty apply? CRA responded:

[T]axpayers should, in these circumstances, apply the version of the Swiss Treaty that gives them the most favourable result. We would normally expect that this would be the French version… .

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