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French General Tax CodeIn force
E: Provisions common to industrial establishments and commercial premises

Article 1501 bis

I.-For the application of articles 1498 and 1499 in ports, with the exception of marinas, the rental value of quays and open spaces relating to these quays, assigned to loading, unloading, transhipmen…

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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 General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 38 bis

I. - 1. Financial securities lent by a company are taken in priority from securities of the same nature acquired or subscribed to at the most recent date.The claim representing the financial securitie…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Withholding tax on interest on savings bonds

Article 1678 bis

1. Interest on savings bonds issued by industrial and commercial companies and, whatever their purpose, by the legal entities referred to in Article 108 give rise, at the time of their payment and eve…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Cosmetic products

Article R1453-8

I. - Companies producing or marketing products mentioned in 14°, 15° and 17° of article L. 5311-1 or providing services associated with these products shall make public, under the conditions defined i…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VII: Obligations of legal persons

Article 222 bis

With the exception of those mentioned in 3 of article 200, organisations that issue receipts, attestations or any other documents by which they indicate to a taxpayer that he is entitled to benefit fr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XXIII: Levy on certain property profits made by individuals or companies with no establishment in France

Article 244 bis

The profits mentioned in article 35 shall give rise to the collection of a levy at the rate provided for in the second paragraph of I of article 219 when they are made by taxpayers or companies, whate…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Actual turnover system

Article 268 bis

I.-This article applies to subscription offers comprising several services, including at least one of the services mentioned in 10° to 12° of article 259 B, which are supplied in return for a fixed pr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3a: Other penalties for serious breaches of the law

Article 1731 bis

1. For income tax purposes, the deficits referred to in I of article 156 and tax reductions may not be offset against the increases and duties giving rise to the application of one of the increases pr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Rules common to movable and immovable property

Article 762 bis

For the purposes of calculating gratuitous transfer duties, the value of the rights of habitation and use is 60% of the value of the usufruct determined in accordance with I of Article 669.

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