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Showing 26412650 of 2758 articles for Art. EU Reg. 650/2012

French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Property wealth tax

Article 978

…nditions set out in article 1649 nonies whose registered office is located in a Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area which has co…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 207

…lative au développement de certaines activités d'économie sociale, les coopératives artisanales et leurs unions, les coopératives d'entreprises de transports, les coopératives artisanales de transport…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VI: Transfers free of charge

Article 793

Sont exonérés des droits de mutation à titre gratuit : 1.1° (Expired); 2° (Repealed); 3° interest shares held in a forestry group up to three-quarters of the fraction of the net value corresponding to…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
ANNEX TO BOOK VI

Article

…affiliated companies and partner companies within the meaning of Annex I to Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 referred to in Article 631-2 ; 2° Tax returns for the last three fin…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
BOOK II: INTER-MUNICIPAL COOPERATION

Article L5210-1-1

I. - In each department, based on an assessment of the coherence of the perimeters and an inventory of the distribution of the competences of the existing groupings and their exercise, a departmental…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-2

Resources intended for the Fonds de compensation pour la taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, referred to in Article L. 1615-1, are distributed among the regions, départements, communes, the Lyon metropolitan…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single title

Article L811-4

…hich the Community trade mark is registered, where the Community trade mark has a reputation in the European Community and use of the sign without due cause takes unfair advantage of, or is detrimenta…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 163 quatervicies

…vings plans mentioned in article L. 224-1 of the same code or to the French sub-accounts of the pan-European individual retirement savings product mentioned in article L. 225-1 of the said code, which…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter III: Miscellaneous taxes

Article 231

…alised boards mentioned in article L. 1412-2 du code général des collectivités territoriales et de leurs groupements, des établissements publics de coopération culturelle mentionnés à l'article L. 143…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Transfers of company rights

Article 726

I. - Transfers of corporate rights are subject to registration duty, the rate of which is set:1° At 0.1%:- for deeds involving transfers of shares, founders' shares or profit shares in joint stock com…

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