(1) If in one of the Contracting States the taxes on dividends,
interest, royalties or other items of income derived by a person
who is a resident of the other Contracting State are levied by
withholding at source, the right of the first-mentioned State to
apply the withholding of tax at the rate provided under its
domestic law shall not be affected by the provisions of this
Agreement. The tax withheld at source shall be refunded on
application by the taxpayer if and to the extent that it is reduced
by this Agreement or ceases to apply.
(2) Refund applications must be submitted by the end of the
fourth year following the calendar year in which the withholding
tax was applied to the dividends, interest, royalties or other items
of income.
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph 1, each Contracting State shall
provide for procedures to the effect that payments of income
subject under this Agreement to no tax or only to reduced tax in
the state of source may be made without deduction of tax or with
deduction of tax only at the rate provided in the relevant Article.
(4) The Contracting State in which the items of income arise
may ask for a certificate by the competent authority on the
residence in the other Contracting State.
(5) The competent authorities may by mutual agreement im-
plement the provisions of this Article and if necessary establish
other procedures for the implementation of tax reductions or
exemptions provided for under this Agreement.
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
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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.
Review status
Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed.
Currentness
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Protocols and later instruments
The protocol printed with this agreement is separately preserved in source supplements; it has not been merged into treaty articles. Subsequent protocols, amendments, MLI effects, replacements and suspensions are unresolved. This is not a consolidated current-law 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.
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription
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 28 | 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-28/
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.
Review status
Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed.
Currentness
Original source edition; not a verified current-law consolidation. Unknown. No current-law consolidation, effective-period determination, MLI application, or complete amendment-chain verification has been performed. Original publication year is not a current applicability date. 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.
Protocols and later instruments
The protocol printed with this agreement is separately preserved in source supplements; it has not been merged into treaty articles. Subsequent protocols, amendments, MLI effects, replacements and suspensions are unresolved. This is not a consolidated current-law 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.
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription