(1) Royalties arising in the sovereign territory of a Contracting
Party and paid to a resident of the sovereign territory of the
other Contracting Party may be taxed in the sovereign territory
of that other Contracting Party if such resident is the beneficial
owner of the interest.
(2) However, such royalties may also be taxed in the
sovereign territory of the Contracting Party in which it arises
according to the laws of the state of that Contracting Party, but
if the beneficial owner of the royalties is a resident of the
sovereign territory of the other Contracting Party, the tax so
charged shall not exceed 5 per cent of the gross amount of the
royalties.
(3) The term “royalties” as used in this Article means
payments of any kind received as a consideration for the use of,
or the right to use, any copyright of literary, artistic or scientific
work including cinematograph films, any patent, trade mark,
design or model, plan, secret formula or process, or for
information concerning industrial, commercial or scientific
experience. The term “royalties” shall also include payments of
any kind for the use or the right to use a person’s name, picture
or any other similar personality rights and on payments received
as consideration for the registration of entertainers’ or
sportsmen’s performances by radio or television.
(4) The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the
beneficial owner of the royalties, being a resident of the
sovereign territory of a Contracting Party, carries on business in
the sovereign territory of the other Contracting Party in which
the royalties arise, through a permanent establishment situated
therein, or performs in the sovereign territory of that other
Contracting Party independent personal services from a fixed
base situated therein, and the right or property in respect of
which the royalties are 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.
(5) Royalties shall be deemed to arise in the sovereign
territory of a Contracting Party if the debtor is the state of this
Contracting Party or, in the case of the German Contracting
Party, also one of its Länder or one of its political subdivisions,
or local authority thereof, or a resident of the sovereign territory
of this Contracting Party. Where, however, the person paying
the royalties, whether he is a resident of the sovereign territory
of a Contracting Party or not, has in the sovereign territory of a
Contracting State a permanent establishment or fixed base in
connection with which the liability to pay the royalties was
incurred, and such royalties are borne by such permanent
establishment or fixed base, then such royalties shall be
deemed to arise in the sovereign territory of the Contracting
Party in which the permanent establishment or fixed base is
situated.
(6) 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 royalties, having regard
to the use, right or information for which they are 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 Party, due regard being had to the other provisions
of this Agreement.
de-north-macedonia-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1153 | signed 2006-07-13 | published 2010-10-22 | Signed: 2006-07-13 | Gazette publication: 2010-10-22
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BGBl. 2010 II S. 1153 | de-north-macedonia-2010-base | de-north-macedonia-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1153 | signed 2006-07-13 | published 2010-10-22 | Signed: 2006-07-13 | Gazette publication: 2010-10-22 | Article 12 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-north-macedonia-2010-base/en/articles/article-12/
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de-north-macedonia-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1153 | signed 2006-07-13 | published 2010-10-22 | Signed: 2006-07-13 | Gazette publication: 2010-10-22
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 Macedonian 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-north-macedonia-2010-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 2006-07-13; consent law 2010-10-16; gazette publication 2010-10-22. 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: 2011-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 29.11.2010, 16.01.2018. 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. Later amending protocol signed 2016-11-14, entered into force 2018-01-16, general application 2019-01-01; NOT included in this base source. Tax-specific application needs review. Source implementing law expressly publishes the treaty in the corrected version resulting from the exchange of notes dated 2008-07-23. Those corrections are incorporated by the official publication, not by this reader. The separately headed exchange-of-notes document is not printed in this retained PDF; do not mistake the law reference for a complete separate notes reader. 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. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2016-11-14; entry into force: 2018-01-16; general application from: 2019-01-01; limit: Exact tax-specific application remains for protocol review.
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