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60 STAT.] UNITED KINGDOM-DOUBLE TAXATION-Apr. 16, 1945 June 6, 1946 year, more than 50 percent of the entire voting power in such corpo- ration. ARTICLE XVII (1) The United States income tax liability for any taxable year beginning prior to January 1, 1936 of any individual (other than a citizen of the United States) resident in the United Kingdom, or of any United Kingdom corporation, remaining unpaid on the date of signature of the present Convention, may be adjusted on a basis satisfactory to the United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Provided that the amount to be paid in settlement of such liability shall not exceed the amount of the liability which would have been determined if (a) the United States Revenue Act of 1936 (except in the case of a United Kingdom corporation in which more than 50 percent of the entire voting power was controlled, directly or indirectly, throughout the latter half of the taxable year, by citizens or residents of the United States), and (b) Articles XV and XVI of the present Convention, had been in effect for such year. If the taxpayer was not, within the meaning of such Revenue Act, engaged in trade or business in the United States and had no office or place of business therein during the taxable year, the amount of interest and penalties shall not exceed 50 percent of the amount of the tax with respect to which such interest and penalties have been computed. (2) The United States income tax unpaid on the date of signature of the present Convention for any taxable year beginning after the thirty-first day of December 1935 and prior to the first day of January 1945 in the case of an individual (other than a citizen of the United States) resident of the United Kingdom, or in the case of any United Kingdom corporation shall be determined as if the provisions of Articles XV and XVI of the present Convention had been in effect for such taxable year. (3) The provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article shall not apply- (a) unless the taxpayer files with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue on or before the thirty-first day of December 1947 a request that such tax liability be so adjusted and furnishes such information as the Commissioner may require; or (b) in any case in which the Commissioner is satisfied that any deficiency in tax is due to fraud with intent to evade the tax. ARTICLE XVIII 1385 Adjustment of un- paid taxes. 49 Stat. 1648 . Nonapplicability of provisions. A professor or teacher from the territory of one of the Contracting Teachea. Parties who visits the territory of the other Contracting Party for the purpose of teaching, for a period not exceeding two years, at a university, college, school or other educational institution in the territory of such other Contracting Party shall be exempted by such