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Country pairs / Canada / Germany

Canada / Germany · 2002 source edition

Article 23 Relief from Double Taxation

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(1) In the case of a resident of Canada, double taxation shall be avoided as fol- lows: a) Subject to the existing provisions of the law of Canada regarding the deduction from tax payable in Canada of tax paid in a territory outside Canada and to any subsequent modification of those pro- visions, which shall not affect the gen- eral principle hereof, and unless a greater deduction or relief is provided under the laws of Canada, German tax (other than capital tax) payable in accordance with this Agreement on profits, income or gains arising in the Federal Republic of Germany shall be deducted from any Canadian tax pay- able in respect of such profits, income or gains. b) Subject to the existing provisions of the law of Canada regarding the allowance as a credit against Canadian tax of tax payable in a territory outside Canada and to any subsequent modification of those provisions – which shall not affect the general principle hereof – where a company which is a resident of the Federal Republic of Germany pays a dividend to a company which is a resi- dent of Canada and which controls directly or indirectly at least 10 per cent of the voting power in the first-men- tioned company, the credit shall take into account the tax payable in the Fed- eral Republic of Germany by that first- mentioned company in respect of the profits out of which such dividend is paid. c) Where in accordance with any provi- sion of the Agreement income derived or capital owned by a resident of Cana- da is exempt from tax in Canada, Cana- da may nevertheless, in calculating the amount of tax on other income or capi- tal, take into account the exempted income or capital. d) For the purposes of this paragraph, profits, income or gains of a resident of Canada shall be deemed to arise from sources in the Federal Republic of Ger- many if they may be taxed in the Feder- al Republic of Germany in accordance with this Agreement.
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(2) Where a resident of the Federal Republic of Germany derives income or owns capital which, in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, may be taxed in Canada, double taxation shall be avoided as follows: a) Subject to the provisions of subpara- graph (b), there shall be excluded from the basis upon which German tax is imposed, any item of income from sources within Canada and any item of capital situated within Canada, which according to the foregoing Articles of this Agreement may be taxed, or shall be taxable only, in Canada; in the deter- mination of its rate of tax applicable to any item of income or capital not so excluded, the Federal Republic of Ger- many will, however, take into account the items of income and capital, which according to the foregoing Articles may be taxed in Canada. The foregoing provisions of this para- graph shall also apply to dividends on shares which are paid to a company which is a resident of the Federal Republic of Germany by a company which is a resident of Canada if at least 10 per cent of the capital of the Cana- dian company is held directly by the German company. There shall also be excluded from the basis upon which German tax is imposed any participa- tion the dividends of which are ex- cluded or, if paid, would be excluded, according to the immediately foregoing sentence from the basis upon which German tax is imposed. b) There shall be allowed as a credit against German tax on income, subject to the provisions of German tax law regarding credit for foreign tax, the Canadian tax (including taxes on income paid to any political subdivision or local authority in Canada) paid in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement referred to below on the fol- lowing items of income: aa) dividends within the meaning of Article 10 which are not dealt with in subparagraph (a) above; bb) interest within the meaning of Arti- cle 11 and royalties within the meaning of Article 12; cc) gains from the alienation of prop- erty taxable in Canada by reason only of Article 13, paragraph 4 and subparagraph (a) of paragraph 7; dd) income within the meaning of Arti- cle 15, paragraph 3 and Articles 16 and 17; ee) pensions and annuities within the meaning of Article 18, para- graphs 1 and 2 and subpara- graph (c) of paragraph 3; ff) income taxable in Canada by rea- son only of Article 21. c) Instead of the provisions of subpara- graph (a), the provisions of subpara- graph (b) shall apply to income within the meaning of Articles 7 and 10 and to items of capital underlying such income unless the resident of the Federal Republic of Germany proves that the gross receipts of the permanent estab- lishment in the business year in which the profit was realised, or the gross receipts of the company resident in Canada in the business year for which the dividend was distributed, derive exclusively or almost exclusively from activities coming under Section 8 para- graph 1 subparagraphs 1 to 6 of the German Law on External Tax Relations (“Aussensteuergesetz”) or from partici- pations coming under Section 8 para- graph 2 of that Law; the same shall apply to immovable property forming part of the business property of a per- manent establishment (paragraph 4 of Article 6) and to gains from the aliena- tion of such immovable property (para- graph 1 of Article 13) and of movable property forming part of the business property of the permanent establish- ment (paragraph 2 of Article 13).
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Canada / Germany; BGBl. 2002 II S. 670; edition de-canada-2002-base | BGBl. 2002 II S. 670 | signed 2001-04-19 | published 2002-03-27 | Signed: 2001-04-19 | Gazette publication: 2002-03-27; article 23; English; unreviewed source text, current applicability unverified; /editions/de-canada-2002-base/en/articles/article-23/

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BGBl. 2002 II S. 670

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de-canada-2002-base | BGBl. 2002 II S. 670 | signed 2001-04-19 | published 2002-03-27 | Signed: 2001-04-19 | Gazette publication: 2002-03-27
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Original source edition; not a verified current-law consolidation. Unknown as current law. Signed 2001-04-19; consent law 2002-03-23; gazette publication 2002-03-27. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: 2002-03-28. Roster general application: 2001-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 28. März 2002. Evidence is the retained 2026-10-01 agent audit of source PDF, 2026-01-01 roster and cached official HTML, not a fresh current-law determination. Bounded agent triage, no qualified wording/alignment/legal review. No exhaustive verification of all later 2026 developments. Matching digest proves retained source identity, not legal force.

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