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Germany – United States · Source editionArticle 21 Other Income

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(1)

1. Items of income of a resident of a Contracting State, wherever arising, not dealt with in the foregoing Articles of this Convention shall be taxable only in that State.

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(2)

2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to income, other than income from immovable property as defined in paragraph 2 of Article 6 (Income from Immovable (Real) Property), if the recipient of such income, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, and the right or property in respect of which the income is paid forms part of the business property of the permanent establishment.

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BGBl. 2008 II S. 611 | Included protocol entered 2007-12-28 (original publication footnote, PDF31); publication 2008-06-23; correction851 unresolved | Signed: 1989-08-29 | Gazette publication: 2008-06-23
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UNREVIEWED ORIGINAL 611-PUBLICATION ONLY. Correction BGBl.2008 II S.851 is identified but its wording/incorporation is unresolved. NOT a corrected final version or current law. Printed line breaks, hyphens and PDF word spacing retained. Article14 deletion marker and Article18A conserved. Separate preamble, protocol and publication footnotes: /review/de-united-states-2008-consolidated/. No consolidation closing or signatories invented. Page references are not verified paragraph alignment.
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Includes protocol signed 2006-06-01, entry 2007-12-28 (publication footnote4, PDF31). Separate official correction BGBl.2008 II S.851 is linked in retained BMF metadata; its wording and incorporation remain unresolved. No correction applied. 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.
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BGBl. 2008 II S. 611 | de-united-states-2008-consolidated | BGBl. 2008 II S. 611 | Included protocol entered 2007-12-28 (original publication footnote, PDF31); publication 2008-06-23; correction851 unresolved | Signed: 1989-08-29 | Gazette publication: 2008-06-23 | Article 21 | en | Pending qualified human review; no wording, completeness, legal alignment or indexing approval. | /library/treaties/de-united-states-2008-consolidated/en/articles/article-21/

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BGBl. 2008 II S. 611

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