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Germany – Albania · Source editionArticle 19 Government Service

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(1)

(1) a) Salaries, wages and other similar remuneration, other than a pension, paid by a Contracting State, a Land, a political subdivision, a local authority or a public legal entity thereof to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State, Land, political subdivision, local authority or public legal entity shall be taxable only in that State. b) However, such salaries, wages and other 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 who i) is a national of that State or ii) did not become a resident of that State solely for the purpose of rendering the services.

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(2)

(2) a) Any pension paid by, or out of funds created by, a Contract- ing State, a Land, a political subdivision, a local authority or a public legal entity thereof to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State, Land, political subdivision, local authority or public legal entity 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)

(3) The provisions of Articles 15, 16, 17, and 18 shall apply to salaries, wages and other similar remuneration, and to pensions in respect of services rendered in connection with a business carried on by a Contracting State, a Land, a political subdivision, a local authority or a public legal entity thereof.

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(4)

(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, a political subdivision or a local authority thereof, out of funds exclusively supplied by that State, Land, political subdivision or local authority, to a specialist or volunteer seconded to the other Contracting State with the consent of that other State.

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(5)

(5) The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall also apply in respect of salaries, wages and other similar remuneration and pensions paid to individuals in respect of services rendered to the Goethe Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service (“Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst”) or to other com- parable institutions in each Contracting State as agreed upon by the Contracting States. If such remuneration is not taxed in the State where the institution was founded, the provisions of Article 15 shall apply.

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Source, edition and limits
Source edition
de-albania-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1186 | Signed: 2010-04-06 | Gazette publication: 2011-12-08
Source form
official-publication PDF retained unchanged; reader derives from an evidenced native font-map encoding-recovery derivative, not OCR
Source scope
original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
German and English are supplied. The signing clause additionally identifies Albanian as authentic; Albanian is NOT present in this reader. The English text prevails in divergent interpretation of German and Albanian according to the closing clause. 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-albania-2011-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Signed 2010-04-06; consent law 2011-12-05; Gazette publication 2011-12-08; treaty entry into force 2011-12-23 (retained official-article audit evidence); general application from 2012-01-01 (roster, not universal tax-specific start). Encoding-recovery method: only the source font code00 /space Unicode mapping U+0007 to U+0020 changed in a separately hashed derivative. CFF blank glyph, 278-unit advance, unchanged page content streams and 23/23 identical source/derivative page renders for this edition evidence this mapping. Word regrouping is logged; every nonspace character is conserved in sequence within its physical source line. No model-generated treaty wording and no OCR.
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Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed.
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Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription
Citation
BGBl. 2011 II S. 1186
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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1186 | de-albania-2011-base | de-albania-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1186 | Signed: 2010-04-06 | Gazette publication: 2011-12-08 | Article 19 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-albania-2011-base/en/articles/article-19/

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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1186

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