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Showing 2130 of 15668 articles for Art. CJEU – Pierre Fabre – Case C-439/09 – 13 Oct. 2011

French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Immunities, safeguards and obligations of customs officials.

Article 59 octodecies

…ister for Industry or the Minister for Defence and tasked with implementing the Paris Convention of 13 January 1993 on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical W…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIIa: Transitional tax relief

Article 1647 C quinquies C

…for the business property tax, the business property tax, due by businesses in respect of 2010 and 2011, for the amount issued for the benefit of the local authority syndicates is subject to a rebate…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4° Tax credit for expenditure on the production of phonographic works

Article 220 octies

I. - Phonographic production companies within the meaning of Article L. 213-1 of the Intellectual Property Code, subject to corporation tax, are eligible for a tax credit in respect of expenditure on…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Contractual tax exemptions and approvals

Article 1649 octies

…resentatives and insofar as they have not been ratified by Parliament.The provisions of articles L. 131-1 to L. 131-20 of the Code des juridictions financières will eventually be applicable in this ca…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1 quinquies : Capital gains realised on contributions to companies or restructuring of professional non-trading companies

Article 151 octies

…quindecies of the overall long-term capital gain relating to his depreciable fixed assets; in this case, the amount of the reintegrations provided for in b is reduced accordingly.Profits relating to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 217 octies

…of this II are assessed on the date of the subscription or redemption. By way of exception, in the case of subscriptions mentioned in the last paragraph of I that the fund or company has undertaken t…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Miscellaneous duties and taxes.

Article 285 octies

…er an indirect representation mandate, within the meaning of Article 18 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 establishing the European Union C…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Ia: Business value added tax

Article 1586 octies

…s fixed assets subject to business property tax in proportion to their rental value. In this second case, the rental value of industrial fixed assets is weighted by a coefficient of 42 for those asses…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 octodecies

I. - Taxpayers who exercise an option for the first time for a real tax regime may recognise, free of tax, the capital gains acquired, on the effective date of this option, by the non-depreciable elem…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Definition of taxable income

Article 80 octies

In accordance with articles L. 442-1and L. 443-10 of the Code de l'action sociale et des familles, the daily remuneration for services rendered and the allowances mentioned in 1° and 2° of Article L.…

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