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Germany – Republic of Korea · Source editionArticle 18 Pensions, Annuities and Similar Payments

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(1)

1. Pensions and similar payments or annuities paid to a resi- dent of a Contracting State from the other Contracting State shall be taxable only in the first-mentioned State.

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(2)

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, payments received by an individual being a resident of a Contracting State from the statutory social insurance of the other Contracting State as the case may be shall be taxable only in that other State.

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(3)

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, recurrent or non-recurrent payments made by one of the Contracting States or a political subdivision thereof to a person resident in the other Contracting State for damages sustained as a result of war or political persecution or of military or civil service (including resti- tution payments) shall be taxable only in the first-mentioned State.

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(4)

4. The term “annuities” means certain amounts payable peri- odically at stated times, for life or for a specified or ascertainable period of time, under an obligation to make the payments in return for adequate and full consideration in money or money’s worth.

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Source, edition and limits
Source edition
de-republic-of-korea-2002-base | BGBl. 2002 II S. 1630 | signed 2000-03-10 | published 2002-07-16 | Signed: 2000-03-10 | Gazette publication: 2002-07-16
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 Korean 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-republic-of-korea-2002-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence.
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Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed.
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Original source edition; not a verified current-law consolidation. Unknown as current law. Signed 2000-03-10; consent law 2002-07-10; gazette publication 2002-07-16. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: 2002-10-31. Roster general application: 2003-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 31. Oktober 2002. 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. Roster future-instrument/negotiation entry (NOT proof of operative amendment): Korea, Republik R-P P: 18.04.2018 KR KR. P = Paraphierung (initialled), NOT signature; U = signed, ratification pending; V = negotiation. R-P protocol/R-A replacement. 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.
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription
Citation
BGBl. 2002 II S. 1630
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BGBl. 2002 II S. 1630 | de-republic-of-korea-2002-base | de-republic-of-korea-2002-base | BGBl. 2002 II S. 1630 | signed 2000-03-10 | published 2002-07-16 | Signed: 2000-03-10 | Gazette publication: 2002-07-16 | Article 18 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-republic-of-korea-2002-base/en/articles/article-18/

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BGBl. 2002 II S. 1630

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