(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 capital
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 tax-
es on capital appreciation.
(3) The existing taxes to which this Agreement shall apply are
in particular:
a) in the Federal Republic of 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 the Republic of Costa Rica
the income tax (impuesto sobre la renta)
the tax on immovable property (impuesto sobre bienes
inmuebles)
the tax on vehicles, ships and aircraft (impuesto sobre la
propiedad de vehículos automotores, embarcaciones y
aeronaves)
(hereinafter referred to as “Costa Rican tax”).
(4) The Agreement shall apply also to any identical or substan-
tially similar taxes which 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 the significant changes which have been made in
their respective taxation laws.
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
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official-publication PDF with native text layer; reader is a machine transcription
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original implementing law, multilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
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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.
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 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.
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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 2 | 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-2/
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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.
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 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