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French General Tax CodeIn force
1° General information

Article 887

The stamp contribution is paid, in accordance with the terms and conditions laid down by decrees, either by the use of stamping machines, or by the affixing of mobile stamps, or by means of the stamp…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4°: Statements of expenses. Indication of the amount of duties paid to the Treasury

Article 865

Statements of costs drawn up by lawyers, bailiffs, court clerks, notaries commissioned must show separately, in a special column and for each disbursement, the amount of duties of any kind paid to the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Designation of buildings in deeds and judgments, based on cadastral data

Article 870

The designation of buildings, according to current cadastral data, is compulsory in all deeds and private sub-seeds, or judgments transferring, declaring, constituting or extinguishing ownership or ri…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Public land registry service

Article 881

…In the event of acquiescence by the debtors, the enforcement statements provided for in Article 85 of Decree No. 62-1587 of 29 December 1962 on the general regulations governing public accounting…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1° General information

Article 886

Not less than €0.08 may be charged in the event that application of the stamp tax rates would not produce this sum.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3° Miscellaneous restrictions and prohibitions

Article 894

The stamp imprint may not be covered with writing or altered.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
6°: Directory of notaries, bailiffs, court clerks, secretaries, auctioneers, commercial brokers, insurance brokers and other intermediaries

Article 867

I. - Notaries, bailiffs, clerks and secretaries of central administrations shall keep columnar directories, on which they shall enter, day by day, and in order of number, namely:1° Notaries, all deeds…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3°: Informing the parties of the existence of sanctions. Affirmation of sincerity

Article 864

…arties of the existence of the penalties laid down in 5 of V of article 1754, to articles 1729 and 1840 B of this code and to Article 1202 of the Civil Code, to mention this information in the deed an…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1° General information

Article 891

The Minister for the Economy and Finance is authorised to grant taxpayers a 0.50% discount on the amount of duties collected by means of machine fingerprinting (1).

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Public sales of furniture

Article 873

Each item awarded is entered immediately in the minutes, the price written in full and drawn off the line in figures.Each session is closed and signed by the public officer, the sworn goods broker or…

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