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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 AE

…y referred to in Article 1649 AD is any person who designs, markets or organises a cross-border device that must be declared, makes it available for the purposes of its implementation or manages its i…

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

Article 1640 E

…y 2015 of a public establishment for inter-communal cooperation with its own tax system, the reference rate of council tax, property tax on built-up properties and property tax on non-built-up propert…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 bis

…is required to submit, before 31 January each year, to the departmental directorate of public finance of the place of his residence or the registered office of the establishment a declaration, the co…

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

Article 1640 D

…efits in 2011 from the transfer of the departmental share of council tax may decide that the reference rate used for voting the council tax rate on second homes and other furnished premises not alloca…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Territorial economic contribution rebate

Article 1647 bis

…tax assessment bases decrease benefit, at their request, from a rebate corresponding to the difference between the bases of the penultimate year and those of the last year preceding the tax year. This…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 AA

When capitalisation contracts or investments of the same nature, in particular life insurance contracts, are taken out with organisations mentioned in I of article 1649 ter who are established outside…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 B

Persons making payments of any kind under the contracts referred to in

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter III: Equalisation funds

Article 1648 AC

I. - With effect from 1st January 2000, a compensation fund for airport nuisance in the communes bordering Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport and a compensation fund for airport nuisance in the communes…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 AD

…dematerialised form, by the intermediary involved in implementing the scheme or by the taxpayer concerned. II.-For the purposes of applying the provisions of I, any scheme taking the form of an agree…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Administrative tax commissions and tax abuse committee

Article 1653 A

…n each département, comprising:1° A sitting magistrate, designated by order of the Minister of Justice, who acts as chairman;2° The departmental director of public finance or his delegate;3° Three civ…

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