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(1)

(1) The profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State unless the enterprise carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein. If the enterprise carries on business as aforesaid, the profits of the enterprise may be taxed in the other State but only so much of them as is attributable to that permanent establishment.

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(2)

(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, where an enter- prise of a Contracting State carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, there shall in each Contracting State be attributed to that permanent establishment the profits which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities under the same or similar conditions and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a permanent establishment.

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(3)

(3) In determining the profits of a permanent establishment, there shall be allowed as deductions expenses which are incurred for the purposes of the permanent establishment, including executive and general administrative expenses so incurred, whether in the Contracting State in which the permanent establishment is situated or elsewhere.

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(4)

(4) Insofar as it has been customary in a Contracting State to determine the profits to be attributed to a permanent establish- ment on the basis of an apportionment of the total profits of the enterprise to its various parts, nothing in paragraph 2 shall preclude that Contracting State from determining the profits to be taxed by such an apportionment as may be customary; the method of apportionment adopted shall, however, be such that the result shall be in accordance with the principles contained in this Article.

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(5)

(5) No profits shall be attributed to a permanent establishment by reason of the mere purchase by that permanent establishment of goods or merchandise for the enterprise.

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(6)

(6) For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the profits to be attributed to the permanent establishment shall be determined by the same method year by year unless there is good and sufficient reason to the contrary.

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(7)

(7) Where profits include items of income or capital gains which are dealt with separately in other Articles of this Agree- ment, then the provisions of those Articles shall not be affected by the provisions of this Article.

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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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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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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 7 | en | Pending independent qualified human wording, completeness, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No human approvals. | /library/treaties/de-ireland-2011-base/en/articles/article-7/

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

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