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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Meters

Article 314

Ministerial decrees determine the date and procedures for affixing meters approved by the administration (1) to distillation equipment used by professional distillers, by bouilleurs de cru or on their…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1c: Capital gains realised in the course of an agricultural, craft, commercial, industrial or liberal activity

Article 151 septies A

…ds covered by article L. 214-37 of the Monetary and Financial Code as it stood prior to Order no. 2013-676 of 25 July 2013 amending the legal framework for asset management, professional private equit…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 10: Employment of qualified persons

Article 67 quinquies A

…t or in the document provided for in Article 247 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Optional taxable transactions

Article 260 A

Local authorities, their groupings or their public establishments may, at their request, be subject to value added tax in respect of transactions relating to the following services: Water supply in mu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Termination of service.

Article R6152-97

…ployee or in a self-employed capacity, the provisions of article 87 of law no. 93-122 of 29 January 1993 relating to the prevention of corruption and the transparency of economic life and public proce…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other missions of general interest and other activities

Article L141-8

…France employees and any other person holding customer accounts at the Banque de France on 6 August 1993; 7. Any other body or person expressly authorised by decision of the General Council to open an…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XIV : Taxation of economic interest groupings and their members

Article 239 quater

I. - Economic interest groupings formed and operating under the conditions provided for in articles L. 251-1 to L. 251-23 of the French Commercial Code do not fall within the scope of 1 of article 206…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budget

Article R5212-1-1-1

The provisions of articles R. 5211-13-2 to R. 5211-13-6 are applicable to syndicats de communes.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4a: Provisions applicable to refugees, stateless persons and beneficiaries of territorial asylum or subsidiary protection and to French nationals who have returned to French territory at the request of the French authorities

Article R4221-14-11

Articles D. 4221-13-2 and R. 4221-13-3 apply to applications for authorisation to practise made under this section.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4 : Smoothing or spreading devices

Article 75-0 B

At the option of taxpayers with agricultural profits subject to an actual taxation system, the agricultural profit used as the basis for the progressive tax is equal to the average of the profits for…

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