(1) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a Con-
tracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State may
be taxed in that other State.
(2) However, such dividends may also be taxed in the Con-
tracting State of which the company paying the dividends is a
resident and according to the laws of that State, but if the
beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other
Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed:
a) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the
beneficial owner is a company (other than a partnership)
which holds directly at least 10 per cent of the capital of the
company paying the dividends;
b) 10 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other
cases.
This paragraph shall not affect the taxation of the company in
respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
(3) Distributions made by a real estate investment company
which is a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the
other Contracting State may be taxed in that other State. How-
ever, such distributions may also be taxed in the Contracting
State of which the real estate investment company making the
distributions is a resident and according to the laws of that State,
but if the beneficial owner of these distributions is a resident of
the other Contracting State and holds directly less than 10 % of
the capital of that company the tax so charged shall not exceed
15 % of the gross amount of the distributions.
This paragraph shall not affect the taxation of the company in
respect of the profits out of which the distributions are made.
(4) The term “dividends” as used in this Article means income
from shares, “jouissance” shares or “jouissance” rights, mining
shares, founders’ shares, or other rights, not being debt-claims,
participating in profits, or other income which is subjected to the
same taxation treatment as income from shares by the laws of
the State of which the company making the distribution is a
resident.
(5) The term “distributions by a real estate investment com-
pany” means distributions
a) in the case of Germany by a real estate investment company,
according to subsection 1 of section 1 of the German Act on
German Real Estate Stock Corporations with Listed Shares
(REIT Act),
b) in the case of Israel by a real estate investment company ac-
cording to Article 64A2 of the Israeli Income Tax Ordinance.
(6) The provisions of paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall not apply if
the beneficial owner of the dividends or of the distributions by a
real estate investment company, being a resident of a Contract-
ing State, carries on business in the other Contracting State of
which the company paying the dividends or making the distribu-
tions is a resident, through a permanent establishment situated
therein and the holding in respect of which the dividends or dis-
tributions are paid is effectively connected with such permanent
establishment. In such case the provisions of Article 7 shall
apply.
(7) Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting
State derives profits or income from the other Contracting State,
that other State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid
by the company, except insofar as such dividends are paid to a
resident of that other State or insofar as the holding in respect
of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with a
permanent establishment situated in that other State, nor subject
the company’s undistributed profits to a tax on the company’s
undistributed profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistrib-
uted profits consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising
in such other State.
This paragraph shall apply also to distributions made by a real
estate investment company.
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de-israel-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1301 | signed 2014-08-21 | published 2015-11-26 | Signed: 2014-08-21 | Gazette publication: 2015-11-26
Source form
official-publication PDF with native text layer; reader is a machine transcription
Source scope
original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
This source supplies German and English versions. The signing clause also identifies Hebrew as authentic; that third version is NOT present in this reader. Missing here does not mean globally unavailable. 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-israel-2015-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence.
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. Unknown as current law. Signed 2014-08-21; consent law 2015-11-20; gazette publication 2015-11-26. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: not resolved as a single source-bound field by the retained audit. Roster general application: 2017-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 21. August 1966, 24. September 1979, 9. Mai 2016. Evidence is the retained 2026-10-01 agent audit of source PDF, 2026-01-01 roster and cached official HTML, not a fresh current-law determination. 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
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