(1) Interest arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resi-
dent of the other Contracting State shall, if the recipient is the
beneficial owner of the interest, be taxable only in that other
State.
(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. The term “interest” shall not include
any item which is treated as a dividend under the provisions of
Article 10 of this Agreement.
(3) The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply if the bene-
ficial 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, and the debt-claim in respect of which the interest is paid
is effectively connected with such permanent establishment. In
such case, the provisions of Article 7 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.
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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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