Direct Tax Avoidance Agreements

South Africa

Article 20 : Students, apprentices and business trainees- 1. A student, apprentice or business trainee who is present in a Contracting State solely for the purpose of his education or training and who is, or immediately before being so present was, a resident of the other Contracting State, shall be exempt from tax in the first-mentioned State on payments received from outside that first-mentioned State for the purposes of his maintenance, education or training.

2. Payments which a student or business apprentice receives as remuneration from employment in the first-mentioned State, in an amount not exceeding a sum equivalent to 3000 US dollars in the currency of the first-mentioned State during any fiscal year shall be exempt from tax in the first-mentioned State during the period ending five years after the date of his first arrival in the first-mentioned Contracting State.