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Showing 141150 of 35491 articles for Art. CE 17-3-2010 n° 315831

French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Obligations of agents

Article 1704

1. The receipt of registration shall be put on the registered deed or on the extract of the declaration of the new possessor. It shall express in full the date of registration, the folio of the regist…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Obligation to pay

Article 1705

…1° By notaries, for deeds executed before them;2° By bailiffs and others with power to effect service of process for those of their ministry;3° By court clerks, for deeds and judgments, except in the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Tax fines

Article 1765

…ommitted and the tax assessments resulting from this closure are immediately payable.Without prejudice to the provisions set out in the first paragraph of this article, the holder of the plan who has…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1794

For the offences listed below, the penalty of between one and three times the amount of duty is replaced by a penalty of between one and three times the value of the apparatus, objects, products or go…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 10: Invalidity of information

Article 174

…g Chamber on the basis of Article 173 or Article 221-3, all pleas alleging the invalidity of the proceedings referred to it must, without prejudice to its right to raise them of its own motion, be sub…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5: Offences committed by third-party declarants

Article 1736

…of article 242 ter and article 242 ter B. The fine is not applicable, in the event of a first offence committed during the current calendar year and the three previous years, when the interested part…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Criminal penalties

Article 1743

…ticles L. 123-12 to L. 123-14 of the French Commercial Code, or in the documents that take their place.This provision does not prevent the application of penalties under ordinary law.2° Anyone who, wi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 175

…fies the parties' lawyers or, if they are not assisted by a lawyer, the parties themselves. The notice is served either orally, with the file endorsed, or by registered letter. If the person is detain…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Temporary admission.

Article 173

…oods imported under temporary admission must be, before expiry of the time limit and after having received the processing, working or additional labour provided for in the order or decision granting t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Criminal penalties

Article 1741

Without prejudice to the specific provisions set out in this codification, anyone who has fraudulently evaded or attempted to fraudulently evade the assessment or payment of all or part of the taxes r…

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