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Germany – Costa Rica · Source editionArticle 13 Capital Gains

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(1)

(1) Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of immovable property situated in the other Contract- ing State may be taxed in that other State.

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(2)

(2) Gains from the alienation of shares and similar rights in a company, the assets of which consist – directly or indirectly – principally of immovable property situated in a Contracting State, may be taxed in that State.

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(3)

(3) Gains from the alienation of movable property forming part of the business property of a permanent establishment which an enterprise of a Contracting State has in the other Contracting State or of movable property pertaining to a fixed base available to a resident of a Contracting State in the other Contracting State for the purpose of performing independent personal services, in- cluding such gains from the alienation of such a permanent es- tablishment (alone or with the whole enterprise) or of such fixed base, may be taxed in that other State.

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(4)

(4) Gains from the alienation of ships or aircraft operated in international traffic or movable property pertaining to the oper - ation of such ships or aircraft, shall be taxable only in the Con- tracting State in which the place of effective management of the enterprise is situated.

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(5)

(5) Gains from the alienation of any property other than that referred to in paragraphs 1 to 4, shall be taxable only in the Con- tracting State of which the alienator is a resident.

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(6)

(6) Where an individual was a resident of a Contracting State for a period of 5 years or more and has become a resident of the other Contracting State, paragraph 5 shall not prevent the first- mentioned State from taxing under its domestic law the capital appreciation of shares in a company resident in the first-men- tioned State for the period of residency of that individual in the first-mentioned State. In such case, the appreciation of capital taxed in the first-mentioned State shall not be included in the de- termination of the subsequent appreciation of capital by the other State.

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Source, edition and limits
Source edition
de-costa-rica-2014-base | BGBl. 2014 II S. 917 | signed 2014-02-13 | published 2014-11-26 | Signed: 2014-02-13 | Gazette publication: 2014-11-26
Source form
official-publication PDF with native text layer; reader is a machine transcription
Source scope
original implementing law, multilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
Native German and English source transcriptions only. The signing clause names German, Spanish and English as authentic, with English prevailing on divergent interpretation of German/Spanish. Spanish is NOT printed as treaty text in this retained PDF and is NOT supplied here; no translation or global unavailability claim. Original signature 2014-02-13; gazette publication 2014-11-26; not current consolidated law. No qualified human wording review, legal review, current-law or publication approval. 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-costa-rica-2014-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence.
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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 as current law. Signed 2014-02-13; consent law 2014-11-20; gazette publication 2014-11-26. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: 2016-08-10. Roster general application: 2017-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 10. August 2016. Evidence is the retained 2026-10-01 agent audit of source PDF, 2026-01-01 roster and cached official HTML, not a fresh current-law determination. 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
Printed signature protocol retained separately and not merged into articles. Roster future-instrument/negotiation entry (NOT proof of operative amendment): Costa Rica R-P V. P = Paraphierung (initialled), NOT signature; U = signed, ratification pending; V = negotiation. R-P protocol/R-A replacement. MLI application and complete later amendments, replacements or suspensions are NOT verified. No developments after the retained roster snapshot are certified. This is NOT a current consolidated 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.
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription
Citation
BGBl. 2014 II S. 917
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BGBl. 2014 II S. 917 | de-costa-rica-2014-base | de-costa-rica-2014-base | BGBl. 2014 II S. 917 | signed 2014-02-13 | published 2014-11-26 | Signed: 2014-02-13 | Gazette publication: 2014-11-26 | Article 13 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-costa-rica-2014-base/en/articles/article-13/

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BGBl. 2014 II S. 917

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