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Germany – Romania · Source editionArticle 15 Dependent Personal Services

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(1)

(1) Subject to the provisions of Articles 16 to 19, salaries, wages and other similar remuneration derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of an employment shall be taxable only in that State unless the employment is exercised in the other Contracting State. If the employment is so exercised, such remu- neration as is derived therefrom may be taxed in that other State.

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(2)

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, remunera- tion derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of an employment exercised in the other Contracting State shall be taxable only in the first-mentioned State if: a) the recipient is present in the other State for a period or peri- ods not exceeding in the aggregate 183 days in any twelve month period commencing or ending in the fiscal year con- cerned, and b) the remuneration is paid by, or on behalf of, an employer who is not a resident of the other State, and c) the remuneration is not borne by a permanent establishment or a fixed base which the employer has in the other State.

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(3)

(3) The provisions of paragraph 2 shall not apply to remunera- tion for employment within the framework of professional hiring out of labour.

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(4)

(4) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Article, remuneration derived in respect of an employment exercised aboard a ship or aircraft operated in international traffic, or aboard a boat engaged in inland waterways transport, may be taxed in the Contracting State in which the place of effective management of the enterprise which operates the ship, aircraft or boat is situated.

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Source, edition and limits
Source edition
de-romania-2003-base | BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | signed 2001-07-04 | published 2003-11-14 | Signed: 2001-07-04 | Gazette publication: 2003-11-14
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Original official-publication PDF retained unchanged. Reader uses explicit native-font ToUnicode derivative; exact original word text and geometry unchanged, no OCR.
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original implementing law, multilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
German and English are separate complete physical source regions. The closing also names Romanian, NOT printed as a separate language version in this retained original; no Romanian asset or translation. English precedence clause is retained. 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-romania-2003-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Native Type1 diagnostic recovery: all used font codes independently mapped and glyphs loaded; only overlong Copyright metadata lines remain as retained Poppler warnings. No text repair or warning suppression. Full machine evidence and full physical pages: /geometry/de-romania-2003-base/.
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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 2001-07-04; consent law 2003-11-12; gazette publication 2003-11-14. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: 2003-12-17. Roster general application: 2004-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 17. Dezember 2003. 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): Rumänien R-P V. 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. 2003 II S. 1594
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BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | de-romania-2003-base | de-romania-2003-base | BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | signed 2001-07-04 | published 2003-11-14 | Signed: 2001-07-04 | Gazette publication: 2003-11-14 | Article 15 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-romania-2003-base/en/articles/article-15/

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BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594

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