(1) Nationals of a Contracting State shall not be subjected in
the other Contracting State to any taxation or any requirement
connected therewith which is other or more burdensome than
the taxation and connected requirements to which nationals of
that other State in the same circumstances, in particular with
respect to residence, are or may be subjected. This provision
shall, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 1, also apply to
persons who are not residents of one or both of the Contracting
States.
(2) Stateless persons who are residents of a Contracting
State shall not be subjected in either Contracting State to any
taxation or any requirement connected therewith, which is other
or more burdensome than the taxation and connected require-
ments to which nationals of the State concerned in the same
circumstances, in particular with respect to residence, are or
may be subjected.
(3) The taxation on a permanent establishment which an
enterprise of a Contracting State has in the other Contracting
State shall not be less favourably levied in that other State than
the taxation levied on enterprises of that other State carrying on
the same activities. This provision shall not be construed as
obliging a Contracting State to grant to residents of the other
Contracting State any personal allowances, reliefs and reduc-
tions for taxation purposes on account of civil status or family
responsibilities which it grants to its own residents.
(4) Except where the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 9,
paragraph 8 of Article 11, or paragraph 6 of Article 12, apply,
interest, royalties and other disbursements paid by an enter-
prise of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contract-
ing State shall, for the purpose of determining the taxable prof-
its of such enterprise, be deductible under the same conditions
as if they had been paid to a resident of the first-mentioned
State. Similarly, any debts of an enterprise of a Contracting
State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, for the
purpose of determining the taxable capital of such enterprise,
be deductible under the same conditions as if they had been
contracted to a resident of the first-mentioned State.
(5) Enterprises of a Contracting State, the capital of which is
wholly or partly owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by
one or more residents of the other Contracting State, shall not
be subjected in the first-mentioned State to any taxation or any
requirement connected therewith which is other or more bur-
densome than the taxation and connected requirements to
which other similar enterprises of the first-mentioned State are
or may be subjected.
de-bulgaria-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1286 | Signed: 2010-01-25 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23
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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 23 | 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-23/
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de-bulgaria-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1286 | Signed: 2010-01-25 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23
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official-publication PDF with native text layer; reader is a machine transcription
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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 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.
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Protocols and later instruments
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