Article 11 Interest
     1. Interest arising in one of the States and paid to a resident of the other State may be taxed in that other State.
     2. However, such interest may be taxed in the State in which it arises and according to the law of that State, but if the recipient is the beneficial owner of the interest, the tax so charged shall not exceed 10 per cent of the gross amount of the interest.
     3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 2:
a. interest arising in Malta and paid to the Netherlands Government, the Central Bank of the Netherlands, the Nederlandse Financieringsmaatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (Netherlands finance company for developing countries), and the Nederlandse Investeringsbank voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (Netherlands investment bank for developing countries) shall be exempt from Malta tax;
b. interest arising in the Netherlands and paid to the Malta Government, the Central Bank of Malta or the Malta Development Corporation shall be exempt from Netherlands tax;
c. the exemptions granted by this paragraph shall also apply to any other statutory body of one of the States if such body possesses a distinct legal personality.
     4. The term "interest" as used in this Article means income from Government securities, income from bonds or debentures, whether or not secured by mortgage but not carrying a right to participate in profits, and income from debt-claims of every kind whether or not secured by mortgage, as well as all other income assimilated to income from money lent by the taxation law of the States in which the income arises.
     5. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the recipient of the interest, being a resident of one of the States, carries on business in the other State in which the interest arises, through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State professional services from a fixed base situated therein, and the debt-claim in respect of which the interest is paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such a case, the provisions of Article 7 or Article 15, as the case may be, shall apply.
     6. Interest shall be deemed to arise in one of the States when the payer is that State itself, a political subdivision, a local authority or a resident of that State. Where, however, the person paying the interest, whether he is a resident of one the States or not, has in one of the States a permanent establishment in connection with which the indebtedness on which the interest is paid was incurred, and such interest is borne by such permanent establishment, then such interest shall be deemed to arise in the State in which the permanent establishment is situated.
     7. Where, owing to a special relationship between the payer and the recipient or between both of them and some other person, the amount of the interest paid, having regard to the debt-claim for which it is paid, exceeds the amount which would have been agreed upon by the payer and the recipient in the absence of such relationship, the provisions of this Article shall apply only to the last-mentioned amount. In that case, the excess part of the payments shall remain taxable according to the law of each State, due regard being had to the other provisions of this Agreement.