On 6 to 9 November 2017, officials from the Czech Republic and Germany reportedly met for the first round of negotiations for a new income tax treaty to replace the 1980 tax treaty between Germany and the former Czechoslovakia, which continues to apply in respect of the Czech Republic and Germany. Any resulting treaty would be the first of its kind directly between the two countries, although negotiations for an earlier draft treaty were concluded in 2000, but the treaty was never signed.