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Germany – Kuwait · Source editionArticle 19 Government Service

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(1)

1. Remuneration including pensions paid by a Contracting State, a Land, a political subdivision or a local authority thereof to an individual in respect of services rendered to that State, Land, subdivision or authority shall be taxable only in that State. How- ever, such remuneration shall be taxable only in the other Con- tracting State if the services are rendered in that State, if the indi- vidual is a resident of that State, a national of that State and not a national of the first-mentioned State.

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(2)

2. The provisions of Articles 15, 16 and 18 shall apply to remuneration and 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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(3)

3. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall likewise apply in respect of remuneration paid, under a development assistance programme of a Contracting State, a Land, a political subdivision or a local authority thereof, out of funds exclusively supplied by that State, Land, political subdivision or local authority, to a specialist or volunteer seconded to the other Contracting State with the consent of that other State.

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Source, edition and limits
Source edition
de-kuwait-2000-base | BGBl. 2000 II S. 390 | signed 1999-05-18 | published 2000-03-09 | Signed: 1999-05-18 | Gazette publication: 2000-03-09
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 Arabic 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-kuwait-2000-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.
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Original source edition; not a verified current-law consolidation. Unknown as current law. Signed 1999-05-18; consent law 2000-02-27; gazette publication 2000-03-09. 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: 1998-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 14. Juli 1989, 2. August 2000. 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. This signed 1999-05-18 source replaces earlier convention signed 1987-12-04; exact cessation and transition require the entry article, not an edition-year inference. Roster future-instrument/negotiation entry (NOT proof of operative amendment): Kuwait R-P P: 08.05.2025 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. 2000 II S. 390
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BGBl. 2000 II S. 390 | de-kuwait-2000-base | de-kuwait-2000-base | BGBl. 2000 II S. 390 | signed 1999-05-18 | published 2000-03-09 | Signed: 1999-05-18 | Gazette publication: 2000-03-09 | Article 19 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-kuwait-2000-base/en/articles/article-19/

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BGBl. 2000 II S. 390

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