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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 6: Information to be provided to the public

Article L385-7

Without prejudice to their other information obligations, supplementary occupational pension funds shall publish an annual report on their solvency and financial situation. In the event of a major eve…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b : Deductible liabilities

Article 775

Funeral expenses are deducted from the assets of the estate up to an amount of €1,500, and for the entire estate if it is less than this amount (1).

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Provisions common to inheritances and gifts

Article 759

For French and foreign securities of any kind admitted to trading on a regulated market, the capital serving as a basis for the liquidation and payment of transfer duties free of charge is determined…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b : Deductible liabilities

Article 767

Where the heirs or universal legatees are burdened with particular legacies of sums of money not existing in the succession and they have paid the duty on all the assets of this same succession, the s…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Provisions common to inheritances and gifts

Article 758

For gratuitous transfers of movable property, other than listed securities and term debts, the value serving as the basis for the tax is determined by the detailed and estimated declaration of the par…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Valuation rules

Article 764

…ies on death, the value of the ownership of movable property is determined, in the absence of proof to the contrary:1° By the price expressed in the deeds of sale, where such sale takes place publicly…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Provisions common to inheritances and gifts

Article 760

…is levied on the capital expressed in the deed and which is the subject of the deed.However, gratuitous transfer duties are liquidated on the basis of the estimated declaration of the parties with re…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Transfers subject to reduced or exempt taxation

Article 716

…ion on low-rent dwellings, for the beneficiaries of this legislation who would justify being unable to live in them or being deprived of the resources necessary to meet their obligations, are subject…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Transfers subject to reduced or exempt taxation

Article 717

Voluntary or judicial resolutions of contracts for the sale of single-family homes meeting the conditions set for low-income housing by

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b : Deductible liabilities

Article 774

…cation of articles L. 321-13 et seq. of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code are sufficiently proven to the administration by all acts and writings, even subsequent to the death of a farmer, likely to…

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