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Germany – Ireland · 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 referred to in Article 6 and situated in the other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State.

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(2)

(2) 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, including such gains from the alienation of such a permanent establishment (alone or with the whole enterprise), may be taxed in that other State.

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(3)

(3) Gains from the alienation of ships or aircraft operated in international traffic, boats engaged in inland waterways transport or movable property pertaining to the operation of such ships, aircraft or boats, shall be taxable only in the Contracting State in which the place of effective management of the enterprise is situated.

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(4)

(4) Gains derived by a resident of a Contracting State from the alienation of shares and similar rights in a company, other than shares quoted on a stock exchange, deriving more than 50 per cent of their value, directly or indirectly, from immovable property situated in the other Contracting State, may be taxed in that other State.

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(5)

(5) Gains from the alienation of any property, other than that referred to in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4, shall be taxable only in the Contracting 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 3 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 an amount that is effectively determined by reference to the capital appreciation of the shares in a company for the period of residence of that individual in the first-mentioned State. In such case, the appreciation of capital by reference to which the amount was taxed in the first-mentioned State shall not be included in the determination of the subsequent appreciation of capital by the other State.

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Source edition
de-ireland-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration) | signed 2011-03-30 | published 2011-11-07 | Signed: 2011-03-30 | Gazette publication: 2011-11-07
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Official original2011 PDF; reader from proved font-CMap-only derivative, not the original facsimile
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Unreviewed machine transcription. Original 2011 publication only, not a verified current-law consolidation. No qualified human wording, legal, alignment, indexing, deployment or publication approval. Noindex preview only; noindex is not access control. Published treaty languages: German and English. Original closing on physical page 21 declares both texts equally authoritative. Both bodies come exclusively from the original 2011 PDF. No third language, translation or cross-language paragraph alignment is inferred. English interface; legal source containers carry their own language. Source-proved reversible blank-glyph CMap correction only; no OCR, translation, wording/spacing/hyphen repair. Native spans and coordinate gaps retained; all26 original/derivative renders identical. Law, preamble, execution, signatures, integral protocol and joint declaration: /review/de-ireland-2011-base/. Source links indicate pages, not independently approved paragraph alignment.
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Original source edition; not a verified current-law consolidation. Signed at Dublin 2011-03-30; consent law 2011-11-01; gazette publication 2011-11-07. Treaty entry 2012-11-28, not application; entry notice dated 2013-02-11, published 2013-03-20. Article 32(2) general application from 2013-01-01 is qualified by tax-specific rules and transitional paragraphs 32(3)–(5). Historical original edition only. Later amending protocols signed 2014-12-03 and 2021-01-19 and a 2025 official consolidation are documented in the cached BMF article; none of their amended wording is imported here. The cache is not fresh currentness proof. This new edition does not replace the held 2025 intake or override its central audit. Later amendments, MLI effects and present-day applicability are not certified. Unreviewed machine transcription. Original 2011 publication only, not a verified current-law consolidation. No qualified human wording, legal, alignment, indexing, deployment or publication approval. Noindex preview only; noindex is not access control. Historical original edition only. Later amending protocols signed 2014-12-03 and 2021-01-19 and a 2025 official consolidation are documented in the cached BMF article; none of their amended wording is imported here. The cache is not fresh currentness proof. This new edition does not replace the held 2025 intake or override its central audit. Later amendments, MLI effects and present-day applicability are not certified.
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Citation
BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration)
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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration) | de-ireland-2011-base | de-ireland-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration) | signed 2011-03-30 | published 2011-11-07 | Signed: 2011-03-30 | Gazette publication: 2011-11-07 | Article 13 | en | Pending independent qualified human wording, completeness, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No human approvals. | /library/treaties/de-ireland-2011-base/en/articles/article-13/

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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration)

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