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Germany – Israel · Source editionArticle 18 Government Service

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(1)

(1) a) Salaries, wages and other similar remuneration, other than a pension, paid by a Contracting State, a Land, a political sub- division or a local authority thereof to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State, Land, political subdivision or local authority shall be taxable only in that State. b) However, such salaries, wages and other remuneration shall be taxable only in the other Contracting State if the services are rendered in that State and if the individual is a resident of that State who aa) is a national of that State or bb) did not become a resident of that State solely for the purpose of rendering the services.

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(2)

(2) a) Any pension paid by, or out of funds created by, a Contract- ing State, a Land, a political subdivision or a local authority thereof to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State, Land, political sub division or local authority shall be taxable only in that State. b) However, such pension shall be taxable only in the other Contracting State if the individual is a resident of, and a na- tional of, that State.

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(3)

(3) The provisions of Articles 14, 15, 16, and 17 shall apply to salaries, wages and other similar remuneration, and to pensions in respect of services rendered in connection with a business carried on by a Contracting State, a Land, a political subdivision or a local authority thereof.

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(4)

(4) The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall also apply in respect of salaries, wages and other similar remuneration and pensions paid to individuals in respect of services rendered to the Goethe Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service (“Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst”) or to other comparable institutions mutually agreed by the Contracting States. If such remuneration is not taxed in the State where the institution was founded, the provisions of Article 14 shall apply.

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(5)

(5) The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall also apply to paid to individuals by the “Association of Chambers of Industry salaries, wages and other similar remuneration and pensions and Commerce for the promotion of Foreign Economic Relations through the Network of Foreign Chambers of Commerce” (IHK- Verband zur Förderung der Außenwirtschaft durch das AHK- Netz), in respect of services rendered to the “Chamber of Com- merce and Industry Israel Germany”, if the above mentioned remuneration is funded wholly from public funds.

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Source, edition and limits
Source edition
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.
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Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed.
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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
Printed signature protocol retained separately and not merged into articles. Roster future-instrument/negotiation entry (NOT proof of operative amendment): Israel R-P P: 24.05.2019 KR KR. P = Paraphierung (initialled), NOT signature; U = signed, ratification pending; V = negotiation. R-P protocol/R-A replacement. MLI application and complete later amendments, replacements or suspensions are NOT verified. No developments after the retained roster snapshot are certified. This is NOT a current consolidated instrument. Source-triage warnings: 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.
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription
Citation
BGBl. 2015 II S. 1301
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BGBl. 2015 II S. 1301 | de-israel-2015-base | 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 | Article 18 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-israel-2015-base/en/articles/article-18/

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BGBl. 2015 II S. 1301

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