(1)
(a) Salaries, wages and other similar remuneration, other than a
pension, paid by a Contracting State, a Land, a political sub-
division or a local authority thereof or some other legal entity
under public law of that State to an individual in respect of
services rendered to that State, Land, political subdivision or
local authority or some other legal entity under public law
shall be taxable only in that State.
(b) However, such remuneration shall be taxable only in the oth-
er Contracting State if the services are rendered in that State
and if the individual is a resident of that State who:
(i) is a national of that State or
(ii) did not become a resident of that State solely for the pur-
pose of rendering the services.
(2)
(a) Any pension paid by, or out of funds created by, a Contract-
ing State, a Land, a political subdivision or a local authority
thereof or some other legal entity under public law of that
State to an individual in respect of services rendered to that
State, Land, political subdivision or local authority or some
other legal entity under public law shall be taxable only in that
State.
(b) However, such pension shall be taxable only in the other
Contracting State if the individual is a resident of, and a na-
tional of, that State.
(3) The provisions of Articles 15, 16, 17 or 18 shall apply to
salaries, wages, pensions, and other similar remuneration in re-
spect of services rendered in connection with a business carried
on by a Contracting State, a Land, a political subdivision or a lo-
cal authority thereof or some other legal entity under public law
of that State.
(4) The provisions of paragraph 1 shall likewise apply in re-
spect of remuneration paid, under a development assistance
programme of a Contracting State, a Land, a political subdivision
or a local authority thereof, out of funds exclusively supplied by
that State, Land, political subdivision or local authority, to a spe-
cialist or volunteer seconded to the other Contracting State with
the consent of that other State.
(5) The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall likewise apply
in respect of remuneration paid by or for the Goethe Institute or
the German Academic Exchange Service (“Deutscher Akademi -
scher Austauschdienst”) of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Corresponding treatment of the remuneration of other comparable
institutions of the Contracting States may be arranged by the
competent authorities by mutual agreement. If such remunera-
tion is not taxed in the State where the institution was founded,
the provisions of Article 15 shall apply.
de-philippines-2014-base | BGBl. 2014 II S. 822 | Signed: 2013-09-09 | Gazette publication: 2014-10-31
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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 19 | 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-19/
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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
Text and language scope
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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Currentness
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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.
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