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1Article 1 Persons Covered2Article 2 Taxes Covered3Article 3 General Definitions4Article 4 Resident5Article 5 Permanent Establishment6Article 6 Income from Immovable Property7Article 7 Business Profits8Article 8 Shipping and Air Transport9Article 9 Associated Enterprises10Article 10 Dividends11Article 11 Interest12Article 12 Royalties13Article 13 Capital Gains14Article 14 Independent Personal Services15Article 15 Income from Employment16Article 16 Directors’ Fees17Article 17 Artistes and Sportsmen18Article 18 Pensions19Article 19 Government Service20Article 20 Visiting Professors, Teachers and Students21Article 21 Other Income22Article 22 Capital23Article 23 Methods for Elimination of Double Taxation24Article 24 Non-Discrimination25Article 25 Mutual Agreement Prodedure26Article 26 Exchange of Information27Article 27 Assistance in the Collection of Taxes28Article 28 Procedural Rules for Taxation at Source29Article 29 Miscellaneous Rules30Article 30 Members of Diplomatic Missions and Consular Posts31Article 31 Protocol32Article 32 Entry into Force33Article 33 Termination

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Country pairs / China / Germany

China / Germany · 2015 source edition

Article 7 Business Profits

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1. The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on busi- ness as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State, but only so much of them as is attributable to that permanent establishment.
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2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enter- prise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment.
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3. In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the State in which the permanent establish- ment is situated or elsewhere.
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4. Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establish- ment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article.
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5. No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establish- ment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise.
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6. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be deter- mined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary.
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7. Where profits include items of income which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Agreement, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.
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China / Germany; BGBl. 2015 II S. 1647; edition de-china-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1647 | Signed: 2014-03-28 | Gazette publication: 2015-12-29; article 7; English; unreviewed source text, current applicability unverified; /editions/de-china-2015-base/en/articles/article-7/

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de-china-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1647 | Signed: 2014-03-28 | Gazette publication: 2015-12-29
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