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Showing 14511460 of 51196 articles for Art. Cass. 3ème civ. 16-2-2022 n° 20-15.164 FS-B

French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Property tax on undeveloped land

Article 1395 B

…and their groupings with their own tax system taken pursuant to article 81 of the 1990 finance law (n° 89-935 of 29 December 1989) are applicable under the conditions set out in the first paragraph. I…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Income tax

Article 172 bis

A decree specifies the nature and content of the documents that must be produced or presented to the administration by real estate companies not subject to corporate income tax that rent out their pro…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Penalties involving deprivation of rights.

Article 432 bis

Natural persons guilty of the offences provided for in articles 414, 414-2 and 459 are liable to the following additional penalties:1° Prohibition, in accordance with the provisions ofarticle 131-27 o…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Display and distribution of decisions

Article 433 bis

For the offence provided for in Article 459(1a), the court shall order that the sentence be displayed and disseminated under the conditions provided for in Articles 131-35 or 131-39 of the Criminal Co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: The Trade and Companies Register

Article R123-166-2

The application file for approval includes: 1° In the case of a sole proprietorship, a declaration stating its name, its activity, its address, the address of its secondary establishments and the civi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy

Article R6523-2-16

The provisions of articles R. 6523-2-10 to R. 6523-2-14 are applicable, under article L. 6523-1-3, to this sub-section.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Optional taxes

Article 1522 bis

I. - The municipalities and their public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation may institute, under the conditions provided for in 1 of II of article 1639 A bis, an incentive portion of the t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Compulsory tax

Article 1584 bis

The municipal council may, by deliberation, reduce the rate of the additional tax on registration duties or land registration tax by up to 0.5% for the transfers referred to in 1° of 1 of article 1584…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Business property tax

Article 1458 bis

I. - Establishments that sell periodicals to the public as agents registered with the commission referred to in Article 26 of Law No. 47-585 of 2 April 1947 on the status of newspaper and periodical p…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Evidentiary value of regular reports and remedies available to defendants against this legal authority.

Article 341 bis

1. Customs reports, where they are authentic until falsified, shall be deemed to be evidence of title for the purpose of obtaining, in accordance with common law, authorisation to take all appropriate…

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