1. This Agreement shall apply to taxes on income and on capi-
tal imposed on behalf of a Contracting State, of a Land or a politi-
cal subdivision or local authority thereof, irrespective of the
manner in which they are levied.
2. There shall be regarded as taxes on income and on capital
all taxes imposed on total income, on total capital, or on el-
ements of income or of capital, including taxes on gains from the
alienation of movable or immovable property, as well as taxes on
capital appreciation.
3. The existing taxes to which the Agreement shall apply are in
particular:
(a) in the Federal Republic of Germany:
the Einkommensteuer (income tax),
the Koerperschaftsteuer (corporation tax),
the Vermoegensteuer (capital tax), and
the Gewerbesteuer (trade tax),
(hereinafter referred to as “German tax”);
(b) in the State of Kuwait:
the corporate income tax,
the 5 % of the net profits of shareholding companies payable
to the Kuwait Foundation of Advancement of Science (KFAS),
the Zakat,
(hereinafter referred to as “Kuwaiti tax”).
4. The Agreement shall apply also to any identical or substan-
tially similar taxes which are imposed after the date of signature
of the Agreement in addition to, or in place of, the existing taxes.
At the end of each year, the competent authorities of the Con-
tracting States shall – if necessary – notify each other of changes
which have been made in their respective taxation laws.
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.
Currentness
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.
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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 2 | 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-2/
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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.
Currentness
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