(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 18, pen-
sions, other similar remuneration or annuities arising in a Con-
tracting State and paid to a resident of the other Contracting
State, shall be taxable only in that other State.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, payments
which are made in accordance with the social insurance legisla-
tion of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, such a
pension, similar remuneration or annuity arising in a Contracting
State which is attributable in whole or in part to contributions
which, for more than 15 years in that State,
a) did not form part of the taxable income from employment, or
b) were tax-deductible, or
c) were tax-relieved in some other way
shall be taxable only in that State. This paragraph shall not
apply if that State does not effectively tax the pension, other
similar remuneration or annuity, or if the tax relief was clawed
back for any reason, or if the 15 year condition is fulfilled in both
Contracting States.
(4) 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 resident of the other
Contracting State as compensation for political persecution or
for an injury or damage sustained as a result of war (including
restitution payments) or of military or civil alternative service or of
a crime, a vaccination or a similar event shall be taxable only in
the first-mentioned State.
(5) 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.
de-united-kingdom-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1333 | Signed: 2010-03-30 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23
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BGBl. 2010 II S. 1333 | de-united-kingdom-2010-base | de-united-kingdom-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1333 | Signed: 2010-03-30 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23 | Article 17 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-united-kingdom-2010-base/en/articles/article-17/
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de-united-kingdom-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1333 | Signed: 2010-03-30 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23
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
German and English versions are present in the source and are identified by the signing 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-united-kingdom-2010-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. 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
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