(1) This Agreement shall apply to taxes on income and on
capital imposed on behalf of a Contracting State, of a Land or a
political subdivision or a local authority thereof, irrespective of
the manner in which they are levied.
(2) There shall be regarded as taxes on income and on
capital all taxes imposed on total income, on total capital, or on
elements of income or of capital, including taxes on gains from
the alienation of movable or immovable property and taxes on
capital appreciation.
(3) The existing taxes to which this Agreement shall apply are
in particular:
a) in the Federal Republic of Germany:
the income tax (Einkommensteuer),
the corporation tax (Körperschaftsteuer),
the capital tax (Vermögensteuer), and
the trade tax (Gewerbesteuer)
including the supplements levied thereon
(hereinafter referred to as “German tax”);
b) in Singapore:
the income tax
(hereinafter referred to as “Singapore tax”).
(4) The Agreement shall apply also to any identical or
substantially similar taxes which are imposed after the date of
signature of the Agreement in addition to, or in place of, the
existing taxes. The competent authorities of the Contracting
States shall notify each other of any substantive changes which
have been made in their respective taxation laws.
de-singapore-2006-base | BGBl. 2006 II S. 930 | Signed: 2004-06-28 | Gazette publication: 2006-11-03
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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 2 | 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-2/
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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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