(1) For the purposes of this Agreement, the term “resident of
a Contracting State” means any person who, under the laws of
that State, is liable to tax therein by reason of his domicile,
residence, place of management or any other criterion of a
similar nature, and also includes that State, a Land and any
political subdivision or local authority thereof. This term, how -
ever, does not include any person who is liable to tax in that
State in respect only of income from sources in that State or
capital situated therein.
(2) Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 an
individual is a resident of both Contracting States, then his status
shall be determined as follows:
a) he shall be deemed to be a resident only of the State in which
he has a permanent home available to him; if he has a
permanent home available to him in both States, he shall be
deemed to be a resident only of the State with which his
personal and economic relations are closer (centre of vital
interests);
b) if the State in which he has his centre of vital interests cannot
be determined, or if he has not a permanent home available
to him in either State, he shall be deemed to be a resident
only of the State in which he has an habitual abode;
c) if he has an habitual abode in both States or in neither of
them, he shall be deemed to be a resident only of the State of
which he is a national;
d) if he is a national of both States or of neither of them, the
competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle
the question by mutual agreement.
(3) Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 a per-
son other than an individual is a resident of both Contracting
States, then it shall be deemed to be a resident only of the State
in which its place of effective management is situated.
(4) A partnership is deemed to be a resident of the Contract-
ing State in which its place of effective management is situated.
However, Articles 6 to 22 of this Agreement apply only to the
income or the capital of the partnership that is subject to tax in
the Contracting State of which it is deemed to be a resident.
de-albania-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1186 | Signed: 2010-04-06 | Gazette publication: 2011-12-08
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official-publication PDF retained unchanged; reader derives from an evidenced native font-map encoding-recovery derivative, not OCR
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original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
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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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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.
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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 4 | 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-4/
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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