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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions specific to credit institutions, finance companies, investment firms, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and central counterparties

Article L613-32

…or investment firm benefiting from the freedom of establishment in accordance with Articles L. 511-22 or L. 532-18-1 for information on the measures they have taken in response to the findings and in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L773-5

…1142 of 16 September 2020 L. 511-36 Order no. 2013-544 of 27 June 2013 L. 511-37 Order 2017-1107 of 22 June 2017 L. 511-38 with the exception of the last sentenceOrder 2014-158 of 20 February 2014 L.…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Minimum solvency margin requirement

Article R334-13

…ntary to contracts involving commitments resulting from operations classified in classes 20, 21 and 22, the minimum margin requirement is equal to the minimum solvency margin requirement for insurance…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Determining taxable income

Article 31

…in article L. 321-4 of the Construction and Housing Code and entered into no later than 31 December 2016. This deduction is granted as from the date on which the agreement comes into effect and throug…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Micro-enterprise scheme

Article 50-0

1. For the taxation of their profits, companies whose turnover excluding tax, adjusted if necessary in proportion to the operating time during the reference year, does not exceed, in the previous cale…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1 quinquies : Capital gains realised on contributions to companies or restructuring of professional non-trading companies

Article 151 octies

I. Capital gains subject to the articles 39 duodecies to 39 quindecies and realised by an individual on the occasion of the contribution to a company subject to a real taxation system of a sole propri…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6a: Equity savings plan for financing small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-cap companies

Article L221-32-2

…e used for one or more of the following purposes:a) Shares, excluding those mentioned in article L. 228-11 of the French Commercial Code, or company investment certificates and cooperative investment…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 214

…oes not apply to sociétés d'intérêt collectif agricole where the members referred to in Article L. 522-1 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, credit institutions and finance companies hold directly…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 239 nonies

I. - Real estate investment funds are undertakings for collective real estate investment and professional undertakings for collective real estate investment, referred to in paragraph 3 of sub-section…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter one: Setting the rates used to calculate direct local taxation

Article 1636 B decies

I. - The communes that are members of a public establishment for inter-communal cooperation subject to article 1609 nonies C vote on the rate of council tax on second homes and other furnished premise…

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