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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Annex I

Article Rubrique 0

…Quality of the authorising officer (3) 1. Form showing: 1° A specimen of the authorising officer's handwritten signature; 2° An indication, where applicable, of the electronic signature process used b…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section 0I: Definition of Community territory

Article 256-0

…uropean Community, excluding the following territories: For the Federal Republic of Germany, the island of Heligoland and the territory of Büsingen; For the Kingdom of Spain, Ceuta, Melilla and the Ca…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Ia: Territoriality

Article 259-0

For the application of the rules relating to the place of supply of services provided for in articles 259 to 259 D, the following are considered to be taxable persons:1° For all services supplied to h…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Rates

Article 278-0

Where a transaction includes items other than incidental items that are subject to different rates, the rate applicable to that transaction is the highest rate among the rates applicable to those diff…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VI: Persons liable for payment of the tax

Article 283-0

…cles 283 to 285 A, a taxable person who carries out a taxable supply of goods or services in France and who has a permanent establishment there which does not participate in the carrying out of that s…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Invoices

Article 289-0

…which the supply of goods or services is made or, failing that, his domicile or habitual residence, and for which the purchaser or the customer established in France is liable for the tax, unless the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Micro-enterprise scheme

Article 50-0

…le 1° €188,700 in the case of companies whose main business is the sale of goods, objects, supplies and foodstuffs to be taken away or consumed on the premises or the provision of accommodation, exclu…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Preliminary section: Commission for the examination of federal regulations relating to sports facilities

Article A142-0

The content of the impact statement referred to in articles R. 142-8 to R. 142-10 is set out in Appendix I-1.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Rates

Article 278-0 B

I.-Intra-Community acquisitions and imports of goods, other than works of art, are subject to the rate laid down for the supply of the same goods. II. II - The supply of work under contract is subject…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions

Article L143-0

…he company before having acquired pension rights, the sum of the contributions paid by the employer and, where applicable, the beneficiary, is reimbursed to them. The rights definitively acquired afte…

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