1. Profits from the operation of ships or aircraft in international
traffic shall be taxable only in the Contracting State in which the
place of effective management of the enterprise is situated.
2. For the purposes of this Article, profits from the operation
of ships or aircraft in international traffic shall include:
a) profits from the rental on a bare-boat basis of ships or air-
craft, and
b) profits from the use, maintenance or rental of containers
(including trailers and related equipment used for the trans-
port of the containers) used for the transport of goods or
merchandise;
where such use, maintenance or rental, as the case may be, is
incidental to the operation of ships or aircraft in international
traffic.
3. If the place of effective management of a shipping enter-
prise is aboard a ship, then it shall be deemed to be situated in
the Contracting State in which the home harbor of the ship is
situated, or, if there is no such home harbor, in the Contracting
State of which the operator of the ship is a resident.
4. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall also apply to profits
from the participation in a pool, a joint business or an interna-
tional operating agency.
de-china-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1647 | Signed: 2014-03-28 | Gazette publication: 2015-12-29
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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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original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
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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.
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