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Germany – Hungary · Source editionArticle 25 Exchange of Information

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(1)

(1) The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall exchange such information as is forseeably relevant for carrying out the provisions of this Agreement or to the administration or enforcement of the domestic laws concerning taxes of every kind and description imposed on behalf of a Contracting State, of a Land or a political subdivision or local authority thereof, insofar as the taxation thereunder is not contrary to the Agreement. The exchange of information is not restricted by Articles 1 and 2.

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(2)

(2) Any information received under paragraph 1 by a Contract- ing State shall be treated as secret in the same manner as infor- mation obtained under the domestic laws of that State and shall be disclosed only to persons or authorities (including courts and administrative bodies) concerned with the assessment or collection of, the enforcement or prosecution in respect of, or the determination of appeals in relation to the taxes referred to in paragraph 1 or the oversight of the above. Such persons or authorities shall use the information only for such purposes. They may disclose the information in public prosecutor’s investigation proceedings, public court proceedings or in judicial decisions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, information received by a Con- tracting State may be used for other purposes when such infor- mation may be used for such other purposes under the laws of both States and the competent authority of the supplying State authorises such else.

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(3)

(3) In no case shall the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 be construed so as to impose on a Contracting State the obligation: a) to carry out administrative measures for the supply of infor- mation at variance with the laws and administrative practice of that or of the other Contracting State; b) to supply information which is not obtainable under the laws or in the normal course of the administration of that or of the other Contracting State; c) to supply information which would disclose any trade, busi- ness, industrial, commercial or professional secret or trade process, or information the disclosure of which would be contrary to public policy (ordre public).

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(4)

(4) If information is requested by a Contracting State in accor- dance with this Article, the other Contracting State shall use its information gathering measures to obtain the requested informa- tion, even though that other State may not need such information for its own tax purposes. The obligation contained in the preced- ing sentence is subject to the limitations of paragraph 3 but in no case shall such limitations be construed to permit a Contracting State to decline to supply information solely because it has no domestic interest in such information.

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(5)

(5) In no case shall the provisions of paragraph 3 be construed to permit a Contracting State to decline to supply information solely because the information is held by a bank, other financial institution, nominee or person acting in an agency or a fiduciary capacity or because it relates to ownership interests in a person.

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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.
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. 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 25 | 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-25/

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BGBl. 2011 II S. 919

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