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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Guarantee of gold, silver and platinum materials

Article 545

Only goldsmiths, jewellers and jewellery manufacturers are authorised to manufacture gold, silver or platinum articles in any other non-legal capacity exclusively for shipment to other Member States o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Deeds and transfers subject to the registration formality

Article 636

Wills received by notaries must be registered within three months of the date of the testator's death.Division wills deposited with or received by notaries must be registered no later than the registr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Deeds and transfers subject to the registration formality

Article 638 A

In the absence of a deed recording them, the formation or transformation of a company or an economic interest grouping, the increase, of their capital, with the exception of capital increases in cash…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Respective scope of the registration formality and the merged formality - Time limits

Article 649

The provisions applicable to buildings located in the departments of Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin shall be laid down by decree (1).

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Simplified tax regimes

Article 302 septies A ter B

…ovisions of article 302 septies A bis are not applicable to natural or legal persons or to legal or de facto groupings of persons who carry out an occult activity within the meaning of the second para…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Stills

Article 303

Any manufacturer or merchant of apparatus suitable for the distillation, manufacture or ironing of eaux-de-vie or spirits is required, at least three days before the start of the manufacture or trade,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Alcohols

Article 363

…s of the provisions of the legislative or regulatory texts relating to the rum regime are established and prosecuted as in matters of indirect taxation.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Contributions to hallmarking and testing of precious metals

Article 531

If the assayer assumes that a work of gold, vermeil, silver, platinum is filled with iron, copper or any other foreign material, he has it cut in the presence of the owner. If the fraud is recognised,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IV: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 536

Unmarked works purchased by manufacturers and merchants, even for their personal use, must be presented for inspection within three days or broken. Any gold, silver or platinum work found unmarked at…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Tobacco

Article 568 ter

I. - The distance selling of manufactured tobacco products, including when the purchaser is located abroad, is prohibited in mainland France and the overseas departments. The acquisition, introduction…

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