1. Where a person considers that the actions of one or both
of the Contracting Parties will result for him in taxation not in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, he may,
irrespective of the remedies provided by the domestic law of the
Contracting Party concerned, present his case to the competent
authority of the Contracting Party of which he is a resident. The
case must be presented within three years of the first notification
of the action resulting in taxation not in accordance with the
provisions of the Agreement.
2. The competent authority shall endeavour, if the objection
appears to it to be justified and if it is not itself able to arrive at a
satisfactory solution, to resolve the case by mutual agreement
with the competent authority of the other Contracting Party, with
a view to the avoidance of taxation which is not in accordance
with the Agreement. Any agreement reached shall be imple -
mented notwithstanding any time limits in the domestic law of
the Contracting Parties.
3. The competent authorities of the Contracting Parties may
communicate with each other directly for the purpose of reaching
an agreement in the sense of the preceding paragraphs.
4. The competent authority of a Contracting Party shall not be
obliged to initiate the mutual agreement procedure where legal
or administrative proceedings have resulted in a final ruling that
by actions giving rise to an adjustment of transfers of profits un-
der Article 8 one of the enterprises concerned is liable to a seri-
ous penalty. In addition, the competent authority of a Contracting
Party shall not be obliged to initiate the mutual agreement pro-
cedure if the enterprise has not fulfilled the documentation
and/or information requirements of the adjusting Contracting
Party before the assessment in which the adjustment is incorpo-
rated was finalized.
6. The competent authorities of the Contracting Parties may
modify or supplement the above rules and procedures as nec-
essary to more effectively implement their intent.
7. If, in carrying out the provisions of this Article, personal
data shall be exchanged, the provisions of paragraph 2 of the
Protocol to the Agreement of 4 July 2008 between the Govern-
ment of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government
of Jersey for the Exchange of Information relating to Tax Matters
shall apply.
de-jersey-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1326 | signed 2015-05-07 | published 2015-11-26 | Signed: 2015-05-07 | Gazette publication: 2015-11-26
Source form
official-publication PDF with native text layer; reader is a machine transcription
Source scope
original consent law and limited-scope agreement, not consolidated/current law
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
Original limited-scope 2015 agreement on tax cooperation and certain items of income, not a comprehensive income/capital DBA. German and English named in the actual closing clause (PDF 6). Separate source-backed machine transcriptions, no full-language accuracy certification. No human review or current-law claim. Native coordinate-based machine transcription. Line breaks, hyphens, tight token gaps and superscripts retained without correction. Implementing law, titles, preambles, closing and signatures remain separate: /review/de-jersey-2015-base/. Source-page links refer to physical pages, not human-verified paragraph correspondence. Noindex is not access control.
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 2015-05-07; consent law 2015-11-20; gazette publication 2015-11-26 (BGBl. 2015 II S. 1326). These are not interchangeable dates. Article 10 states notification-based entry into force and application to specified taxes/proceedings from 29 August 2014; no resolved entry-into-force/current-applicability determination is made here. 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
This is the original limited-scope 2015 agreement, NOT a current consolidated text. No accompanying protocol is printed in this six-page publication. Article 9(7) refers to paragraph 2 of the protocol to the separate 4 July 2008 tax-information-exchange agreement; that instrument is NOT included or translated here. Article 11(3) links termination to that separate 2008 information-exchange agreement. The retained audit categorizes an earlier cooperation agreement as a predecessor, but that is not a finding that the separate information-exchange instrument was replaced. Later amendments/negotiations/MLI and current operation are unverified. 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
BGBl. 2015 II S. 1326 | de-jersey-2015-base | de-jersey-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1326 | signed 2015-05-07 | published 2015-11-26 | Signed: 2015-05-07 | Gazette publication: 2015-11-26 | Article 9 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-jersey-2015-base/en/articles/article-9/
Source, edition and limits
Source edition
de-jersey-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1326 | signed 2015-05-07 | published 2015-11-26 | Signed: 2015-05-07 | Gazette publication: 2015-11-26
Source form
official-publication PDF with native text layer; reader is a machine transcription
Source scope
original consent law and limited-scope agreement, not consolidated/current law
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
Original limited-scope 2015 agreement on tax cooperation and certain items of income, not a comprehensive income/capital DBA. German and English named in the actual closing clause (PDF 6). Separate source-backed machine transcriptions, no full-language accuracy certification. No human review or current-law claim. Native coordinate-based machine transcription. Line breaks, hyphens, tight token gaps and superscripts retained without correction. Implementing law, titles, preambles, closing and signatures remain separate: /review/de-jersey-2015-base/. Source-page links refer to physical pages, not human-verified paragraph correspondence. Noindex is not access control.
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 2015-05-07; consent law 2015-11-20; gazette publication 2015-11-26 (BGBl. 2015 II S. 1326). These are not interchangeable dates. Article 10 states notification-based entry into force and application to specified taxes/proceedings from 29 August 2014; no resolved entry-into-force/current-applicability determination is made here. 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
This is the original limited-scope 2015 agreement, NOT a current consolidated text. No accompanying protocol is printed in this six-page publication. Article 9(7) refers to paragraph 2 of the protocol to the separate 4 July 2008 tax-information-exchange agreement; that instrument is NOT included or translated here. Article 11(3) links termination to that separate 2008 information-exchange agreement. The retained audit categorizes an earlier cooperation agreement as a predecessor, but that is not a finding that the separate information-exchange instrument was replaced. Later amendments/negotiations/MLI and current operation are unverified. 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