(1) Royalties arising in a Contracting State and beneficially
owned by a resident of the other Contracting State shall be tax-
able only in that other Contracting State.
(2) The term “royalties” as used in this Article means pay-
ments of any kind received as a consideration for the use of, or
the right to use, any copyright of literary, artistic or scientific work
including cinematograph films, or any patent, trade mark, design
or model, plan, or secret formula or process, or for information
concerning industrial, commercial or scientific experience.
(3) The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply if the bene-
ficial owner of the royalties, being a resident of a Contracting
State, carries on business in the other Contracting State in which
the royalties arise through a permanent establishment situated
therein and the right or property in respect of which the royalties
are paid is effectively connected with such permanent establish-
ment. In such case the provisions of Article 7 shall apply.
(4) Where, by reason of a special relationship between the
payer and the beneficial owner or between both of them and
some other person, the amount of the royalties, having regard to
the use, right or information for which they are paid, exceeds the
amount which would have been agreed upon by the payer and
the beneficial owner in the absence of such relationship, the pro-
visions of this Article shall apply only to the last-mentioned
amount. In such case, the excess part of the payments shall
remain taxable according to the laws of each Contracting State,
due regard being had to the other provisions of this Agreement.
de-japan-2016-base | BGBl. 2016 II S. 956 | Signed: 2015-12-17 | Gazette publication: 2016-07-25
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BGBl. 2016 II S. 956 | de-japan-2016-base | de-japan-2016-base | BGBl. 2016 II S. 956 | Signed: 2015-12-17 | Gazette publication: 2016-07-25 | Article 12 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-japan-2016-base/en/articles/article-12/
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de-japan-2016-base | BGBl. 2016 II S. 956 | Signed: 2015-12-17 | Gazette publication: 2016-07-25
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2026-09-30
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This source supplies German and English versions. The signing clause also identifies Japanese as authentic; that third version is NOT present in this reader. 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-japan-2016-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence.
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