1. An individual who visits a Contracting State at the invitation
of that State or of a university, college, school, museum or other
cultural institution of that State or under an official programme
of cultural exchange for a period not exceeding two years solely
for the purpose of teaching, giving lectures or carrying out
research at such institution and who is, or was immediately
before that visit, a resident of the other Contracting State shall
be exempt from tax in the first-mentioned State on his remuner-
ation for such activity, provided that such remuneration is
derived by him from outside that State. If the period exceeds
two years, the remuneration for such activities may be taxed in
the first-mentioned State from the beginning of the visit.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to income
from research if such research is undertaken not in the public
interest but primarily for the private benefit of a specific person
or persons.
3. Payments which a student or business apprentice who is
or was immediately before visiting a Contracting State a resident
of the other Contracting State and who is present in the first-
mentioned State solely for the purpose of his education or train-
ing receives for the purpose of his maintenance, education or
training shall not be taxed in that State, provided that such pay-
ments arise from sources outside that State.
de-china-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1647 | Signed: 2014-03-28 | Gazette publication: 2015-12-29
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BGBl. 2015 II S. 1647 | de-china-2015-base | de-china-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1647 | Signed: 2014-03-28 | Gazette publication: 2015-12-29 | Article 20 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-china-2015-base/en/articles/article-20/
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de-china-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1647 | Signed: 2014-03-28 | Gazette publication: 2015-12-29
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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 Chinese 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-china-2015-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.
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