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Country pairs / Germany / Romania

Germany / Romania · 2003 source edition

Article 19 Government Service

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(1) a) Salaries, wages and other similar remuneration, other than a pension, paid by a Contracting State, a Land, an administra- tive-territorial unit or a local authority thereof or some other legal entity under public law of that State to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State, Land, administra- tive-territorial unit or local authority or some other legal entity under public law shall be taxable only in that State. b) However, such remuneration shall be taxable only in the other Contracting State if the services are rendered in that State and if the individual is a resident of that State and aa) is a national of that State; or bb) did not become a resident of that State solely for the purpose of rendering the services.
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(2) a) Any pension paid by, or out of funds created by, a Contract- ing State, a Land, an administrative-territorial unit or a local authority thereof or some other legal entity under public law of that State to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State, Land, administrative-territorial unit or local authority or some other legal entity under public law shall be taxable only in that State. b) However, such pension shall be taxable only in the other Contracting State if the individual is a resident of, and a national of, that State.
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(3) The provisions of Articles 15, 16, 17 and 18 shall apply to remuneration and pensions in respect of services rendered in connection with a business carried on by a Contracting State, a Land, an administrative-territorial unit or a local authority thereof or some other legal entity under public law of that State.
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(4) The provisions of paragraph 1 shall likewise apply in respect of remuneration paid, under a development assistance programme of a Contracting State, a Land, an administrative-ter- ritorial unit, or a local authority thereof, out of funds exclusively supplied by that State, Land, administrative-territorial unit or local authority, to a specialist or volunteer sent to the other Con- tracting State with the consent of that other State.
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(5) The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall likewise apply in respect of remuneration paid by or for the Goethe Institute Inter Nationes or the German Academic Exchange Service (“Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst”) of the Federal Republic of Germany. Corresponding treatment of the remuneration of other comparable institutions of the Contracting States may be ar- ranged by the competent authorities by mutual agreement. If such remuneration is not taxed in the State where the main office of the institution is situated, the provisions of Article 15 shall apply.
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Germany / Romania; BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594; edition de-romania-2003-base | BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | signed 2001-07-04 | published 2003-11-14 | Signed: 2001-07-04 | Gazette publication: 2003-11-14; article 19; English; unreviewed source text, current applicability unverified; /editions/de-romania-2003-base/en/articles/article-19/

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BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594

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de-romania-2003-base | BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | signed 2001-07-04 | published 2003-11-14 | Signed: 2001-07-04 | Gazette publication: 2003-11-14
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2003-11-14
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2001-07-04
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Original source edition; not a verified current-law consolidation. Unknown as current law. Signed 2001-07-04; consent law 2003-11-12; gazette publication 2003-11-14. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: 2003-12-17. Roster general application: 2004-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 17. Dezember 2003. 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.

Printed signature protocol retained separately and not merged into articles. Roster future-instrument/negotiation entry (NOT proof of operative amendment): Rumänien R-P V. P = Paraphierung (initialled), NOT signature; U = signed, ratification pending; V = negotiation. R-P protocol/R-A replacement. MLI application and complete later amendments, replacements or suspensions are NOT verified. No developments after the retained roster snapshot are certified. This is NOT a current consolidated instrument. Source-triage warnings: 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.

German and English are separate complete physical source regions. The closing also names Romanian, NOT printed as a separate language version in this retained original; no Romanian asset or translation. English precedence clause is retained. Unreviewed coordinate-based machine transcription of this original source edition only. Printed line breaks, hyphens and uncertain token spacing are retained, not silently corrected. Treaty preamble, closing formula, protocol and shared signatures are separate retained assets, not part of the last article. Full supplements: /review/de-romania-2003-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Native Type1 diagnostic recovery: all used font codes independently mapped and glyphs loaded; only overlong Copyright metadata lines remain as retained Poppler warnings. No text repair or warning suppression. Full machine evidence and full physical pages: /geometry/de-romania-2003-base/.

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