1. Income derived by a resident of a Contracting State in
respect of professional services or other activities of an independ-
ent character shall be taxable only in that State unless he has a
fixed base regularly available to him in the other Contracting
State for the purpose of performing his activities or he is present
in the other Contracting State for a period or periods amounting
to or exceeding in the aggregate 183 days in any twelve-month
period commencing or ending in the fiscal year concerned. If he
has such a fixed base or remains in that other State for the afore-
said period or periods the income may be taxed in that other
State but only so much of it as is attributable to that fixed base
or is derived in that other State during the aforesaid period or
periods.
2. The term “professional services” includes especially inde-
pendent scientific, literary, artistic, educational or teaching activ-
ities as well as the independent activities of physicians, dentists,
lawyers, engineers, architects and accountants.
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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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 14 | 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-14/
Source, edition and limits
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
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription