Statutory Instruments
2015 No. 335
Bank Levy
The Double Taxation Relief (Bank Levy) (Netherlands) Order 2015
Made
23rd February 2015
Laid before the House of Commons
24th February 2015
Coming into force
17th March 2015
The Treasury make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 66(1) and 67A of Schedule 19 to the Finance Act 2011( 1 ).
Citation, commencement and effect
1. This Order may be cited as the Double Taxation Relief (Bank Levy) (Netherlands) Order 2015 and comes into force on 17th March 2015.
Double taxation arrangements to have effect
2. It is declared that—
(a) the arrangements specified in the Convention set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order and the Protocol set out in Part 2 of that Schedule have been made with the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
(b) the arrangements have been made with a view to affording relief from double taxation in relation to the bank levy and an equivalent foreign levy imposed by the laws of the Netherlands;
(c) the international tax enforcement arrangements specified in Article 7 of the Convention have been made in association with those arrangements; and
(d) it is expedient that those arrangements and the international tax enforcement arrangements should have effect.
Alun Cairns
Gavin Barwell
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
23rd February 2015
Article 2
SCHEDULE
PART 1
PART 2
2011 c. 11 , paragraph 67A was inserted by paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 34 to the Finance Act 2012 (c. 14) .