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(1)

(1) a) Salaries, wages and other similar remuneration, other than a pension, paid by a Contracting State, a Land, a political subdivision or a local authority thereof or some other legal entity under public law of that State to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State, Land, political subdivision or local authority or some other legal entity under public law shall be taxable only in that State. b) However, such salaries, wages and other remuneration shall be taxable only in the other Contracting State if the services are rendered in that State and if the individual is a resident of that State who aa) is a national of that State or bb) did not become a resident of that State solely for the purpose of rendering the services.

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(2)

(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 17 a) Any pension paid by, or out of funds created by, a Contract- ing State, a Land, a political subdivision or a local authority thereof or some other legal entity under public law of that State to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State, Land, political subdivision or local authority or some other legal entity under public law shall be taxable only in that State. b) However, such pension shall be taxable only in the other Contracting State if the individual is a resident of, and a national of, that State.

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(3)

(3) The provisions of Articles 14, 15, 16, and 17 shall apply to salaries, wages and other similar remuneration, and to pensions in respect of services rendered in connection with a business carried on by a Contracting State, a Land, a political subdivision or a local authority thereof or some other legal entity under public law of that State.

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(4)

(4) The provisions of paragraph 1 shall likewise apply in respect of remuneration paid, under a development assistance programme of a Contracting State, a Land, a political subdivision or a local authority thereof, out of funds exclusively supplied by that State, Land, political subdivision or local authority, to a specialist or volunteer seconded to the other Contracting State with the consent of that other State.

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(5)

(5) The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall also apply in respect of salaries, wages and other similar remuneration and pensions paid to individuals in respect of services rendered to the Goethe Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service (“Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst”) further the Collegium Hungaricum, the Hungarian Cultural and Information Centre (“Magyar Kulturális és Tájékoztatási Központ”) respec - tively and to other comparable institutions mutually agreed by the competent authorities. If such remuneration is not taxed in the State where the institution was founded, the provisions of Article 14 shall apply.

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Source, edition and limits
Source edition
de-hungary-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 919 | Signed: 2011-02-28 | Gazette publication: 2011-10-07
Source form
official-publication PDF retained unchanged; reader derives from an evidenced native font-map encoding-recovery derivative, not OCR
Source scope
original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
The original signing clause identifies German, Hungarian and English as authentic. Only German and English are supplied; the authentic Hungarian version is NOT included. The clause gives English precedence in divergent interpretation of the German and Hungarian texts. 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-hungary-2011-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Signed 2011-02-28; consent law 2011-09-30; Gazette publication 2011-10-07; treaty entry into force UNRESOLVED in pinned audit (retained official-article audit evidence); general application from 2012-01-01 (roster, not universal tax-specific start). Encoding-recovery method: only independently evidenced source font code00 /space Unicode mappings U+0007 to U+0020 changed in a separately hashed derivative. CFF blank glyphs, 278-unit advances, unchanged decoded page content streams and 22/22 identical page renders evidence this mapping. Word regrouping is logged; every nonspace character is conserved in sequence within its physical source line. No generated treaty wording and no OCR.
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Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed.
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Original source edition; not a verified current-law consolidation. Original base edition only; current law NOT verified. Integral protocol retained separately, not merged into the final article. Later changes and 2026 developments are not exhaustively verified. KNOWN MLI EFFECTS OMITTED: audit records general application from 2025-01-01 and Part VI from 2024-11-01; neither is incorporated. Tax-specific MLI application remains unreviewed. Replaces agreement signed 1977-07-18; exact transitional effects remain unreviewed. 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
Integral protocol retained separately, not merged into the final article. Later changes and 2026 developments are not exhaustively verified. KNOWN MLI EFFECTS OMITTED: audit records general application from 2025-01-01 and Part VI from 2024-11-01; neither is incorporated. Tax-specific MLI application remains unreviewed. Replaces agreement signed 1977-07-18; exact transitional effects remain unreviewed. 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. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): BEPS-MLI; general application from: 2025-01-01; part VI general application from: 2024-11-01
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription
Citation
BGBl. 2011 II S. 919
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BGBl. 2011 II S. 919 | de-hungary-2011-base | de-hungary-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 919 | Signed: 2011-02-28 | Gazette publication: 2011-10-07 | Article 18 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-hungary-2011-base/en/articles/article-18/

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BGBl. 2011 II S. 919

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