Direct Tax Avoidance Agreements

United Mexican States

Article 3

GENERAL DEFINITIONS

1. For the purposes of this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires :

  (a)  the term "India" means the territory of the Republic of India and includes the territorial sea and airspace above it, as well as any other maritime zone in which India has sovereign rights, other rights and jurisdiction, in accordance with international law;

  (b)  the term "Mexico" means the territory of the United Mexican States including the maritime areas adjacent to its coast, i.e., territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf, to the extent to which Mexico may exercise sovereign rights or jurisdiction in those areas according to International Law;

  (c)  the terms "a Contracting State" and "the other Contracting State" mean the Republic of India or Mexico, as the context requires;

  (d)  the term "person" includes an individual, a company, a body of persons and any other entity which is treated as a taxable unit under the taxation laws in force in the respective Contracting States;

  (e)  the term "company" means any body corporate or any entity that is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes;

   (f)  the term " enterprise" applies to the carrying on of any business;

  (g)  the terms "enterprise of a Contracting State" and "enterprise of the other Contracting State" mean respectively an enterprise carried on by a resident of a Contracting State and an enterprise carried on by a resident of the other Contracting State;

  (h)  the term "international traffic" means any transport by a ship or aircraft operated by a resident of a, Contracting State, except when the ship or aircraft is operated solely between places in the otherContracting State;

   (i)  the term "competent authority" means :

     (i)  in India : the Finance Minister, Government of India, or his authorized representative;

    (ii)  in Mexico : the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit;

   (j)  the term "national" means :

     (i)  any individual possessing the nationality of a Contracting State;

    (ii)  any legal person, partnership or association deriving its status as such from the laws in force in a Contracting State;

  (k)  the term "tax" means Indian or Mexican tax, as the context requires, but shall not include any amount which is payable in respect of any default or omission in relation to the taxes to which this Agreement applies or which represents a penalty or fine imposed relating to those taxes;

   (l)  The term "fiscal year" means :

     (i)  in the case of India : the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April;

    (ii)  in the case of Mexico : the fiscal year beginning on the 1st day of January.

2. As regards the application of the Agreement at any time by a Contracting State any term not defined therein shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning that it has at that time under the law of that State for the purposes of the taxes to which the Agreement applies and any meaning under the applicable tax laws of that State prevailing over a meaning given to the term under other laws of that State.