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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Criminal penalties

Article 1777

Where the offender is a company or association, the penalties provided for in article 1771 and in the second paragraph of the article 1775, are personally applicable to chairmen, managing directors, d…

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2: Criminal penalties

Article 1789

In the event that an offender who has been subject for less than three years to one of the tax fines or an increase provided for in articles 1729, 1729 B and 1734 intentionally commits a new offence u…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Criminal penalties

Article 1778

The Articles 121-6 and 121-7 of the Criminal Code are applicable to accomplices to the offences referred to in articles 1771 to 1775 and 1777, without prejudice to disciplinary sanctions if they are p…

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3: Criminal penalties

Article 1776

As regards the offences referred to in articles 1771 to 1775, the court will order, at the request of the administration, that the judgment be published in full or in extracts in the Journal officiel…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1791

I. - Subject to the special provisions set out in the following articles, any infringement of the provisions of Title III of Part One of Book I, and of the laws governing indirect taxes, as well as th…

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1: Tax penalties

Article 1798

The offences referred to in article 1812 are punishable, at the request of the administration, by the tax penalties provided for in I of article 1791. Whoever makes it impossible for the officers auth…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Import

Article 1790

Penalties relating to offences committed in respect of taxes collected and controlled under the same procedures and subject to the same penalties, guarantees, securities and privileges as customs duti…

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Article 1786

For the application of the penalties provided for in the event of fraudulent manoeuvres, any purchase for which a regular invoice is not represented that conforms to the nature, quantity and value of…

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1: Tax penalties

Article 1795

I. - The persons mentioned in Article L. 96 J of the Book of Tax Procedures who make available the software or cash register systems mentioned in the same Article L. 96 J are liable to a fine where su…

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1: Tax penalties

Article 1797

With regard to offences committed in relation to taxes on gaming houses, if the duties evaded or compromised cannot be determined precisely, the court shall set the penalty at one to three times the d…

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