(1) Profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State from the op-
eration of ships or aircraft in international traffic shall be taxable
only in that State.
(2) For the purposes of this Article, profits from the operation
of ships or aircraft in international traffic include:
a) profits from the rental on a bareboat basis of ships or aircraft;
and
b) profits from the use, maintenance or rental of containers (in-
cluding trailers and related equipment for the transport of
containers) used for the transport of goods or merchandise;
where such rental or such use, maintenance or rental, as the
case may be, is incidental to the operation of ships or aircraft in
international traffic.
(3) The provisions of paragraph 1 shall also apply to profits
from the participation in a pool, a joint business or an interna-
tional operating agency, but only to so much of the profits so
derived as is attributable to the participant in proportion to its
share in the joint operation.
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 8 | 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-8/
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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.
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Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed.
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Protocols and later instruments
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