(1) Income derived by an individual who is a resident of a
Contracting State from the performance of professional servic-
es or other activities of an independent character shall be tax-
able only in that State except in the following circumstances
when such income may also be taxed in the other Contracting
State:
a) if he has a fixed base regularly available to him in the other
State for the purpose of performing his activities; in that
case, only so much of the income as is attributable to that
fixed base may be taxed in that other State; or
b) if his presence in the other State is for a period or periods
exceeding in the aggregate 183 days in the calendar year
concerned; in that case, only so much of the income as is
derived from his activities performed in that other State may
be taxed in that other State.
(2) The term “professional services” includes especially
independent scientific, literary, artistic, educational or teaching
activities as well as the independent activities of physicians,
dentists, lawyers, engineers, architects and accountants.
de-singapore-2006-base | BGBl. 2006 II S. 930 | Signed: 2004-06-28 | Gazette publication: 2006-11-03
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official-publication PDF with native text layer; reader is a machine transcription
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original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
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Protocols and later instruments
The protocol printed with this agreement is separately preserved in source supplements; it has not been merged into treaty articles. Subsequent protocols, amendments, MLI effects, replacements and suspensions are unresolved. This is not a consolidated current-law instrument. Source-triage warnings: Original signed-2004/published-2006 edition omits the 2019 amendment and 2021 notification ordinance. Not listed in roster I.2; this is snapshot evidence only, not proof of no MLI relevance forever. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2019-12-09; citation: BGBl. 2020 II S. 1178; BGBl. 2021 II S. 437; entry into force: 2021-03-29; general application: 2022-01-01 / domestic-notification-ordinance; citation: BGBl. 2021 I S. 5218; entry into force: 2021-12-23
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BGBl. 2006 II S. 930 | de-singapore-2006-base | de-singapore-2006-base | BGBl. 2006 II S. 930 | Signed: 2004-06-28 | Gazette publication: 2006-11-03 | Article 14 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-singapore-2006-base/en/articles/article-14/
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de-singapore-2006-base | BGBl. 2006 II S. 930 | Signed: 2004-06-28 | Gazette publication: 2006-11-03
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
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-singapore-2006-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. No current-law consolidation, effective-period determination, MLI application, or complete amendment-chain verification has been performed. Original publication year is not a current applicability date. Original signed-2004/published-2006 edition omits the 2019 amendment and 2021 notification ordinance. Not listed in roster I.2; this is snapshot evidence only, not proof of no MLI relevance forever.
Protocols and later instruments
The protocol printed with this agreement is separately preserved in source supplements; it has not been merged into treaty articles. Subsequent protocols, amendments, MLI effects, replacements and suspensions are unresolved. This is not a consolidated current-law instrument. Source-triage warnings: Original signed-2004/published-2006 edition omits the 2019 amendment and 2021 notification ordinance. Not listed in roster I.2; this is snapshot evidence only, not proof of no MLI relevance forever. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2019-12-09; citation: BGBl. 2020 II S. 1178; BGBl. 2021 II S. 437; entry into force: 2021-03-29; general application: 2022-01-01 / domestic-notification-ordinance; citation: BGBl. 2021 I S. 5218; entry into force: 2021-12-23
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