(1) If in one of the Contracting States the taxes on dividends,
interest, royalties or other items of income derived by a person
who is a resident of the other Contracting State are levied by
withholding at source, the right of the first-mentioned State to
apply the withholding of tax at the rate provided under its
domestic law shall not be affected by the provisions of this
Convention. The tax withheld at source shall be refunded on
application by the taxpayer if and to the extent that it is reduced
or eliminated by this Convention.
(2) Refund applications must be submitted by the end of the
fourth year following the tax year in which the withholding tax
was applied to the dividends, interest, royalties or other items of
income.
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph 1, each Contracting State may
provide for procedures to the effect that payments of income
subject under this Convention to no tax or only to reduced tax in
the state of source may be made without deduction of tax or with
deduction of tax only at the rate provided in the relevant Article.
(4) The Contracting State in which the items of income arise
may ask for an administrative certification by the other Contract-
ing State that the taxpayer is a resident of that other Contracting
State within the provisions of Article 4.
(5) The competent authorities may by mutual agreement im-
plement the provisions of this Article and if necessary establish
other procedures for the implementation of tax reductions or
exemptions provided for under this Convention.
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 29 | 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-29/
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Source edition
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
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: 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. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2014-03-17; entry into force: 2015-12-29; general application from: 2016-01-01; limit: Exact tax-specific application remains for protocol review. / amending-protocol; signature date: 2021-01-12; entry into force: 2021-12-17; general application from: 2022-01-01; limit: Exact tax-specific application remains for protocol review.
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