[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 26, Volume 18, Parts 500 to 599]
[Revised as of April 1, 2000]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 26CFR517.7]

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                       TITLE 26--INTERNAL REVENUE
 
     CHAPTER 1--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
                               (Continued)
 
PART 517--PAKISTAN--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart--Withholding of Tax
 
Sec. 517.7  Release of excess tax withheld at source.

    (a) Amounts to be released--(1) Dividends paid by a foreign company 
managed and controlled in Pakistan. If United States tax at the 
statutory rate has been withheld on or after January 1, 1959, from 
dividends paid by a foreign company whose business is managed and 
controlled in Pakistan to a recipient other than a citizen or resident 
or

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corporation of the United States, the withholding agent shall release 
and pay over to the person from whom the tax was withheld an amount 
which is equal to the tax so withheld.
    (2) Dividends paid to a Pakistan parent company. If United States 
tax at the statutory rate has been withheld on or after January 1, 1959, 
from dividends entitled to the reduced rate of 15 percent in accordance 
with Sec. 517.2(a)(2), the withholding agent shall, if furnished the 
authorization of release prescribed in Sec. 517.2(b)(2)(ii) or (3)(v), 
release and pay over to the company from which the tax was withheld an 
amount which is equal to the difference between the tax so withheld from 
income received by the taxpayer in a taxable year beginning on or after 
January 1, 1959, and the tax required to be withheld from such income 
pursuant to Sec. 517.2(b)(2)(i).
    (3) Patent and copyright royalties, pensions, and annuities. If a 
taxpayer furnishes to the withholding agent the authorization of release 
prescribed in Sec. 517.3(b)(2) or Sec. 517.4(c)(2) and United States tax 
has been withheld at the statutory rate on or after January 1, 1959, 
from the royalties, pensions, or annuities in respect of which such 
authorization is prescribed, the withholding agent shall release and pay 
over to the person from whom the tax was withheld an amount which is 
equal to the tax so withheld from income received by the taxpayer in a 
taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 1959.
    (4) Interest paid to the State Bank of Pakistan. If United States 
tax at the statutory rate has been withheld on or after January 1, 1959, 
from interest of the State Bank of Pakistan, the withholding agent shall 
release and pay over to that bank an amount which is equal to the tax so 
withheld.
    (b) Amounts not to be released. The provisions of this section do 
not apply to excess tax withheld at source which has been paid by the 
withholding agent to the Director of International Operations, Internal 
Revenue Service.
    (c) Statutory rate. As used in this section, the term ``statutory 
rate'' means the rate of tax required to be withheld in accordance with 
chapter 3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as though the convention 
had not come into effect.