Direct Tax Avoidance Agreements

Thailand

Article 21

PROFESSORS, TEACHERS AND RESEARCH SCHOLARS

1.      A professor, teacher or research scholar who is or was a resident of one of the Contracting State immediately before visiting the other Contracting State at the invitation of that other Contracting State or of a university, college, school or other approved institution, shall be exempt from tax in that other Contracting State on any remuneration for such teaching or research for a period not exceeding two years from the date of his first arrival in that other Contracting state.

2.      This Article shall apply to income from research only if such research is undertaken by the individual in the public interest and not primarily for the benefit of some private person or persons.

3.      For the purposes of this Article, an individual shall be deemed to be a resident of a Contracting State if he is resident in that State in the fiscal year in which he visits the other Contracting State or in the immediately preceding fiscal year.

4.      For the purposes of paragraph 1, "approved institution" means an institution which has been approved in this regard by the competent authority of the concerned Contracting State.