1. Interest arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resident
of the other Contracting State shall be taxable only in that other
State if such resident is the beneficial owner of the interest.
2. The term “interest” as used in this Article means income
from debt-claims of every kind, whether or not secured by mort-
gage, and in particular, income from government securities and
income from bonds or debentures, including premiums and
prizes attaching to such securities, bonds or debentures. Penal-
ty charges for late payment shall not be regarded as interest for
the purpose of this Article.
3. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply if the benefi-
cial owner of the interest, being a resident of a Contracting State,
carries on business in the other Contracting State in which the
interest arises, through a permanent establishment situated
therein, or performs in that other State independent personal ser-
vices from a fixed base situated therein, and the debt-claim in
respect of which the interest is paid is effectively connected with
such permanent establishment or fixed base. In such case the
provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, 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 interest, having regard to
the debt-claim for which it is paid, exceeds the amount which
would have been agreed upon by the payer and the beneficial
owner in the absence of such relationship, the provisions 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-malta-2001-base | BGBl. 2001 II S. 1297 | Signed: 2001-03-08 | Gazette publication: 2001-12-17
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original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
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Protocols and later instruments
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BGBl. 2001 II S. 1297 | de-malta-2001-base | de-malta-2001-base | BGBl. 2001 II S. 1297 | Signed: 2001-03-08 | Gazette publication: 2001-12-17 | Article 11 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-malta-2001-base/en/articles/article-11/
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Source edition
de-malta-2001-base | BGBl. 2001 II S. 1297 | Signed: 2001-03-08 | Gazette publication: 2001-12-17
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
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-malta-2001-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. No current-law consolidation, effective-period determination, MLI application, or complete amendment-chain verification has been performed. Original publication year is not a current applicability date. Original 2001 edition is not a consolidated 2026 text: 2010 amendment and operative MLI effects are omitted. Cached article prints BGBl. 2001 II S. 320 for entry notice, but roster prints 2002 II S. 320 and linked notice has 2002 date. Preserve discrepancy; use roster citation with explicit correction provenance.
Protocols and later instruments
The protocol printed with this agreement is separately preserved in source supplements; it has not been merged into treaty articles. Subsequent protocols, amendments, MLI effects, replacements and suspensions are unresolved. This is not a consolidated current-law instrument. Source-triage warnings: Original 2001 edition is not a consolidated 2026 text: 2010 amendment and operative MLI effects are omitted. Cached article prints BGBl. 2001 II S. 320 for entry notice, but roster prints 2002 II S. 320 and linked notice has 2002 date. Preserve discrepancy; use roster citation with explicit correction provenance. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2010-06-17; citation: BGBl. 2011 II S. 275; entry notice S. 640; entry into force: 2011-05-19; application caveat: I.1 prints 01.01.2002 for protocol application. Preserve that broad table statement; do not infer that every amendment is retroactive without protocol review. / BEPS-MLI; citation: BGBl. 2024 I Nr. 205; BGBl. 2025 II Nr. 5; general application: 2025-01-01; part VI general application: 2024-11-01
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