2. However, such royalties may also be taxed in the Contract-
ing State in which they arise and according to the laws of that
State, but if the beneficial owner of the royalties is a resident of
the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed
6 percent of the gross amount of the royalties.
3. The term “royalties” as used in this Article means payments
of any kind received as a consideration for the use of, or the right
to use, any copyright of literary, artistic or scientific work includ-
ing cinematograph films or films or tapes used for radio or tele-
vision broadcasting, any patent, trade mark, design or model,
plan, secret formula or process, or for information concerning in-
dustrial, commercial or scientific experience.
4. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the
beneficial owner of the royalties, being a resident of a Contract-
ing State, carries on business in the other Contracting State in
which the royalties arise, through a permanent establishment sit-
uated therein and the right or property in respect of which the
royalties are paid is effectively connected with such permanent
establishment. In such case the provisions of Article 7 shall ap-
ply.
5. Royalties shall be deemed to arise in a Contracting State
when the payer is a resident of that State. Where, however, the
person paying the royalties, whether he is a resident of a Con-
tracting State or not, has in a Contracting State a permanent es-
tablishment in connection with which the liability to pay the roy-
alties was incurred, and such royalties are borne by such
permanent establishment, then such royalties shall be deemed
to arise in the Contracting State in which the permanent estab-
lishment is situated.
6. Where, by reason of a special relationship between the
payer and the beneficial owner or between both of them and
some other person, the amount of the royalties, having regard to
the use, right or information for which they are paid, exceeds the
amount which would have been agreed upon by the payer and
the beneficial owner in the absence of such relationship, the pro-
visions of this Article shall apply only to the last-mentioned
amount. In such case, the excess part of the payments shall re-
main taxable according to the laws of each Contracting State,
due regard being had to the other provisions of this Agreement.
de-armenia-2017-base | BGBl. 2017 II S. 1077 | Signed: 2016-06-29 | Gazette publication: 2017-07-27
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de-armenia-2017-base | BGBl. 2017 II S. 1077 | Signed: 2016-06-29 | Gazette publication: 2017-07-27
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original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
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2026-09-30
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This source supplies German and English versions. The signing clause also identifies Armenian as authentic; that third version is NOT present in this reader. 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-armenia-2017-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence.
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