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Germany – Philippines · Source editionArticle 17 Artistes and Sportsmen

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(1)

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 7, 14 and 15, in- come derived by a resident of a Contracting State as an enter- tainer, such as a theatre, motion picture, radio or television artiste, or a musician, or as a sportsman, from his personal activ- ities as such exercised in the other Contracting State, may be taxed in that other State.

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(2)

(2) Where income in respect of personal activities exercised by an entertainer or a sportsman in his capacity as such accrues not to the entertainer or sportsman himself but to another per- son, that income may, notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 7, 14 and 15, be taxed in the Contracting State in which the ac- tivities of the entertainer or sportsman are exercised.

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(3)

(3) Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to income accruing from the exercise of activities by artistes or sportsmen in a Con- tracting State where the visit to that State is financed entirely or mainly from public funds of the other State, a Land, a political subdivision or a local authority thereof or by an organisation which in that other State is recognised as a charitable organisa- tion. In such a case the income may be taxed only in the Con- tracting State of which the individual is a resident.

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Source, edition and limits
Source edition
de-philippines-2014-base | BGBl. 2014 II S. 822 | Signed: 2013-09-09 | Gazette publication: 2014-10-31
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official-publication PDF retained unchanged; reader derives from an evidenced native font-map encoding-recovery derivative, not OCR
Source scope
original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
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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-philippines-2014-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Signed 2013-09-09; consent law 2014-10-27; Gazette publication 2014-10-31; treaty entry into force 2015-12-18 (retained official-article audit evidence); general tax application from 2016-01-01 (BMF 2026 roster, not every tax-specific transition). Consent-law commencement 2014-11-01 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 2013 agreement replaces the 1983-07-22 agreement; retained official-article audit reports predecessor cessation 2015-12-17. Article32 transitional tax rules are retained, not simplified into one universal date. The accompanying protocol is separate. Later amendments, MLI and present applicability 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.
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription
Citation
BGBl. 2014 II S. 822
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BGBl. 2014 II S. 822 | de-philippines-2014-base | de-philippines-2014-base | BGBl. 2014 II S. 822 | Signed: 2013-09-09 | Gazette publication: 2014-10-31 | Article 17 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-philippines-2014-base/en/articles/article-17/

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