(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 of a Contracting State or
a “Land”, 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
elements 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 taxes on capital appreciation.
(3) The existing taxes to which the Agreement shall apply are
in particular:
a) in the case of Ireland:
i) the income tax;
ii) the income levy;
iii) the corporation tax; and
iv) the capital gains tax;
(hereinafter referred to as “Irish tax”);
b) in the case of the Federal Republic of Germany:
i) the income tax (Einkommensteuer);
ii) the corporation tax (Körperschaftsteuer);
iii) the trade tax (Gewerbesteuer); and
iv) the capital tax (Vermögensteuer);
including the supplements levied thereon
(hereinafter referred to as “German tax”).
(4) The Agreement shall apply also to any identical or substan-
tially similar taxes that 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 any significant changes that have been made in
their taxation laws.
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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration)
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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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Original consent law, DE/EN convention, integral protocol and joint declaration; not amended/current law
Retrieved
2026-10-02
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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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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration)
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