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Showing 110 of 37858 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 30-4-2014 n° 13-13.641

French General Tax CodeIn force
Title IIa: Provisions common to direct taxes and turnover taxes

Article 302 nonies

The income tax or corporation tax reliefs provided for in Articles 44 octies A, 44 terdecies, 44 quaterdecies, 44 quindecies, 44 sexdecies and 44 septdecies do not apply where one or more turnover dec…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 302 bis N

Any person who has an animal slaughtered in a slaughterhouse pays a slaughter health fee to the State. However, in the case of contract slaughter, the fee is paid by the third-party slaughterer on beh…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title V: Provisions common to Titles I, II and IV

Article 1378 nonies

If the Commission nationale des comptes de campagne et des financements politiques instituted in Article L. 52-14 of the Electoral Code finds that a political party or grouping is in breach of the obl…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Property tax on built-up properties

Article 1388 nonies

I.-The basis of assessment for property tax on buildings owned by non-trading property companies in which Poste Immo directly or indirectly holds the entire share capital is subject to a deduction, th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2c: Marine fishing companies

Article 44 nonies

The taxable profits of small-scale fishermen, subject to a real tax regime, who set up for the first time between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2010, are determined, for the first sixty months of act…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2a: Sociétés de participations financières de profession libérale de greffiers des tribunaux de commerce (financial holding companies for the liberal professions of commercial court registrars)

Article R743-139-30

The liquidator shall proceed with the transfer of the shares that the société de participations financières de profession libérale de greffier des tribunaux de commerce holds in the société(s) d'exerc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Preliminary section: The single body responsible for business formalities

Article R123-30-13

The administrative authority responsible for implementing the data processing service may not keep the information and documents contained in the file beyond a period of two months, starting from the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1605 nonies

I. - A tax is levied on the transfer for valuable consideration of bare land or rights relating to bare land made constructible as a result of their classification, after 13 January 2010, by a local t…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: Internal taxes.

Article 266 nonies

1. The rates of the tax referred to in article 266 sexies are set as follows :A-0.-The authorisations mentioned in each of the rows of the tables in the second paragraph of a and b of A of this 1 and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 novodecies

I.-When a company sells a building to a leasing company and immediately regains use of the building under a leasing contract, the amount of the capital gain on the sale of the building may be spread e…

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