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Showing 2130 of 37768 articles for Art. Loi 89-462 du 6-7-1989

French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Turnover taxes and similar miscellaneous taxes

Article 1609 duotricies

…ux articles 1609 novovicies et 1609 tricies are collected and controlled according to the same procedures and subject to the same penalties, guarantees, securities and privileges as turnover taxes. Cl…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 duodecies A

…Article L. 313-7 of the Monetary and Financial Code is subject to the regime defined in articles 39 duodecies et seq. It is considered as a short-term capital gain up to the fraction of the rental pay…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1° General information

Article 890

In all cases where the tax law provides for exemption from stamp duty, such exemption also entails exemption from the formality.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 896

A disposition by which a person is charged to preserve and return to a third party has effect only where it is authorised by law.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The bringing of a civil action and its effects

Article 89

Any civil party must declare to the investigating judge an address which must be located, if the information takes place in metropolitan France, in a metropolitan department or, if the information tak…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VIII: Specific procedures

Article 899

…ical or rehabilitation treatment;-salaries and resources of the employee maintained by the employer during the period of inactivity following the event causing the damage. It also takes into account c…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Obligations of employers and debtors

Article 89

…sion, the declaration referred to in article 87 must be filed, with regard to the remuneration paid during the year of the transfer or cessation, within the timeframe indicated in article 201 or 202.T…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Appeal from a judgment ruling exclusively on jurisdiction

Article 89

When it decides to evoke the case, the court invites the parties, if necessary by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, to constitute a lawyer within a time limit that it shall set, if th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 89

The application is presented to the judicial court of the place of death or disappearance, if this occurred in a territory under the authority of France, otherwise to the court of the domicile or last…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Actions to supplement shares

Article 891

An action to supplement a share is not permitted against a sale of undivided rights made without fraud to an undivided co-owner by his co-owners or by one of them, where the transfer involves a contin…

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