tax-treaties.com
Choose agreementSOURCE EDITION
Find article

Germany – Ireland · Source editionArticle 32 Entry into force

Unreviewed · applicability unverified

(1)

(1) This Agreement shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be exchanged as soon as possible.

PDF page · 20

(2)

(2) This Agreement shall enter into force on the day of the exchange of the instruments of ratification and shall have effect: a) in Ireland: i) in the case of income tax, income levy and capital gains tax, for any year of assessment beginning on or after the first day of January in the calendar year next following the year in which this Agreement enters into force; ii) in the case of corporation tax, for any financial year begin- ning on or after the first day of January in the calendar year next following the year in which this Agreement enters into force; b) in Germany: i) in the case of taxes withheld at source, in respect of amounts paid on or after the first day of January in the calendar year next following the year in which this Agree- ment enters into force; ii) in the case of other taxes, in respect of taxes levied for periods beginning on or after the first day of January in the calendar year next following the year in which this Agreement enters into force.

PDF page · 20

(3)

(3) Upon the entry into force of this Agreement, the Conven- tion between the Federal Republic of Germany and Ireland for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital and to the Gewerbesteuer (Trade Tax), signed at Dublin on 17th of Octo- ber 1962, as amended by the Protocol signed at Berlin on 25th of May 2010 (hereinafter referred to as the 1962 Conven- tion), shall cease to have effect from the dates on which this Agreement becomes effective for taxes in accordance with the relevant provisions of paragraph 2.

PDF page · 20

(4)

(4) Notwithstanding paragraphs 2 and 3, where the provisions of Article XXII of the 1962 Convention would have afforded any greater relief from tax than is due under this Agreement, any such provision as aforesaid shall continue to have effect for a period of 12 months from the date on which the provisions of this Agreement would otherwise have effect in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2.

PDF page · 20

(5)

(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 and the provisions of Article 17 where, immediately before the entry into force of this Agreement an individual was in receipt of pay- ments falling within Articles XIII and XV of the 1962 Convention, that individual may elect that the provisions of Articles XIII and XV shall continue to apply to such payments and not the provisions of Article 17.

PDF page · 20
Source, edition and limits
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
Source form
Official original2011 PDF; reader from proved font-CMap-only derivative, not the original facsimile
Source scope
Original consent law, DE/EN convention, integral protocol and joint declaration; not amended/current law
Retrieved
2026-10-02
Text and language scope
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.
Review status
Pending independent qualified human wording, completeness, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No human approvals.
Currentness
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.
Protocols and later instruments
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. Source-triage warnings: 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. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): later-amending-protocol; signature date: 2014-12-03; limit: Cached BMF article; amendment body not incorporated; no current-law claim / later-amending-protocol; signature date: 2021-01-19; limit: Cached BMF article; amendment body not incorporated; no current-law claim / later-official-2025-consolidation; date: 2025-04-10; limit: Separate central record and held W intake preserved; no reclassification or body mixing
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription
Citation
BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration)
SHA-256
cb0eafbd040330600bb8c68e415d95c7360a5f9eebf1ddf2a25157b0705e3e7c

Citation

Copyable citation

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 32 | en | Pending independent qualified human wording, completeness, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No human approvals. | /library/treaties/de-ireland-2011-base/en/articles/article-32/

Disclaimers

Language switching retains matching article and paragraph identifiers. The mapping does not confirm reviewed legal or translational equivalence.

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

Unreviewed machine transcription. Not a verified current-law consolidation or legal advice. Later changes may be missing.

Source details · Preamble and protocol

Source-page links are references, not human paragraph verification.

Source, edition and limits

Choose agreement