(1) Dividends paid by a company which is a resident of a
Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State
may be taxed in that other State.
(2) However such dividends may also be taxed in the
Contracting State of which the company paying the dividends is
a resident and according to the laws of that State, but if the
beneficial owner of the dividends is a resident of the other Con-
tracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed:
(a) 5 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends if the bene-
ficial owner is a company (other than a partnership) which
holds directly at least 10 per cent of the capital of the compa-
ny paying the dividends;
(b) 15 per cent of the gross amount of the dividends in all other
cases.
This paragraph shall not affect the taxation of the company in
respect of the profits out of which the dividends are paid.
(3) The term “dividends” as used in this Article means income
from shares or other rights, not being debt claims, participating
in profits, as well as other income which is subjected to the same
taxation treatment as income from shares by the laws of the
Contracting State of which the company making the distribution
is a resident and distributions on certificates of an investment
fund or investment trust.
(4) The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the
beneficial owner of the dividends, being a resident of a Contract-
ing State, carries on business in the other Contracting State of
which the company paying the dividends is a resident through a
permanent establishment situated therein and the holding in re-
spect of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected
with such permanent establishment. In such a case, the provi-
sions of Article 7 shall apply.
(5) Where a company which is a resident of a Contracting
State derives profits or income from the other Contracting State,
that other State may not impose any tax on the dividends paid by
the company, except in so far as such dividends are paid to a
resident of that other State or in so far as the holding in respect
of which the dividends are paid is effectively connected with a
permanent establishment situated in that other State, nor sub-
ject the company’s undistributed profits to a tax on undistributed
profits, even if the dividends paid or the undistributed profits
consist wholly or partly of profits or income arising in such other
State.
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de-mauritius-2012-base | BGBl. 2012 II S. 1050 | Signed: 2011-10-07 | Gazette publication: 2012-10-09
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The signing clause identifies German and English as equally authentic; both are supplied as separate machine transcriptions. No additional authentic language is identified in that clause. 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-mauritius-2012-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Signed 2011-10-07; consent law 2012-10-02; Gazette publication 2012-10-09; treaty entry into force 2012-12-07 (retained official-article audit evidence); general tax application from 2013-01-01 (BMF 2026 roster, not every tax-specific transition). Consent-law commencement 2012-10-10 is NOT treaty entry into force. Encoding-recovery method: only the source font code00 /space Unicode mapping U+0007 to U+0020 changed in a separately hashed derivative. CFF blank glyph, 278-unit advance, unchanged page content streams and 23/23 identical source/derivative page renders for this edition evidence this mapping. Word regrouping is logged; every nonspace character is conserved in sequence within its physical source line. No model-generated treaty wording and no OCR.
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Protocols and later instruments
The integral protocol signed 7 October 2011 is retained separately. A LATER AMENDING PROTOCOL signed 29 October 2021 is NOT included or consolidated here. The 2026 roster records general application from 1 January 2023 and cites the entry notice BGBl. 2023 II No.50; the official article still displays ./. for protocol entry into force. Exact amendment entry date and tax-specific effect remain UNRESOLVED pending examination of that notice. Do not treat this base edition as current consolidated law. MLI and any other later changes are not exhaustively verified. 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. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2021-10-29; general application from: 2023-01-01; limit: Exact tax-specific application remains for protocol review.
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