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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Judging of contraventions

Article R48-1

I.-The first four classes of offences for which prosecution is extinguished by payment of a fixed fine are as follows: 1° Offences punishable under the Highway Code whether or not they result in a wit…

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

Article 691 bis

The deeds of acquisition referred to in A of article 1594-0 G give rise to the collection of a land registration tax or registration duty of 125 €.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Persons responsible for social and personality investigations or contributing to judicial supervision or probationary suspension

Article R121-1

It is allocated to personality investigators and judicial controllers, authorised natural persons: 1° For the verification of the material, family or social situation of persons who are the subject of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Tax regimes

Article 69 D

Companies engaged in agricultural activity, other than those mentioned in article 71, created as from 1st January 1997 and whose results are taxed under the conditions provided for in l'article 8, are…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Tax regimes

Article 69 E

Farmers who carry out an activity mentioned in the fifth or sixth paragraph of Article 63 are subject to an actual taxation system. The same applies to farmers all or part of whose assets allocated to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Tax regimes

Article 69

I. When the average income of a farmer, for all of his farms, exceeds €91,900, excluding tax, over three consecutive years, the person concerned is compulsorily taxed according to a real system of tax…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Tax regimes

Article 69 C

Persons who carry out commercial import, sale, commission and brokerage operations involving live butchery and charcuterie animals, as well as those who carry out commercial purchase operations involv…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Tax regimes

Article 70

For the application of articles 69, 69 C, 69 D , and 72, account shall be taken of revenue generated by companies and groupings not subject to corporation tax of which the taxpayer is a member, in pro…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: General information

Article 108

The provisions of articles 109 to 117 set out the rules for determining income distributed by : 1° Legal entities subject to the tax provided for in Chapter II of this Title; 2° Legal entities and joi…

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French Customs CodeIn force
A. - First class.

Article 414-1

The penalties provided for in the first paragraph of Article 414 shall apply : 1° Exporting native gold from French Guiana either without an itemised declaration or under cover of an itemised declarat…

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