(1) This Agreement shall apply to taxes on income and on
capital imposed on behalf of a Contracting State, of a Land or a
political subdivision or local authority thereof, irrespective of the
manner in which they are levied.
(2) There shall be regarded as taxes on income and on capi-
tal all taxes imposed on total income, on total capital, or on ele-
ments of income or of capital, including taxes on gains from the
alienation of movable or immovable property, taxes on the total
amounts of wages or salaries paid by enterprises, as well as
taxes on capital appreciation.
(3) The existing taxes to which this Agreement shall apply are
in particular:
a) in Germany:
– the income tax (Einkommensteuer);
– the corporation tax (Körperschaftsteuer);
– the trade tax (Gewerbesteuer) and
– the capital tax (Vermögensteuer)
including the supplements levied thereon
(hereinafter referred to as “German tax”);
b) in Bulgaria:
– the personal income tax;
– the corporate income tax and
– the real property tax
(hereinafter referred to as “Bulgarian tax”).
(4) The Agreement shall apply also to any substantially simi-
lar taxes that are imposed after the date of signature of the
Agreement in addition to, or in place of, the existing taxes. The
competent authorities of the Contracting States shall notify
each other of any significant changes that have been made in
their respective taxation laws.
de-bulgaria-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1286 | Signed: 2010-01-25 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23
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original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
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BGBl. 2010 II S. 1286 | de-bulgaria-2010-base | de-bulgaria-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1286 | Signed: 2010-01-25 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23 | Article 2 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-bulgaria-2010-base/en/articles/article-2/
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de-bulgaria-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1286 | Signed: 2010-01-25 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23
Source form
official-publication PDF with native text layer; reader is a machine transcription
Source scope
original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
This source supplies German and English versions. The signing clause also identifies Bulgarian 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-bulgaria-2010-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence.
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. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2022-07-21; entry into force: 2023-12-13; general application from: 2024-01-01; limit: Exact tax-specific application remains for protocol review.
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