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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Recruitment.

Article R6152-413-1

Without prejudice to the provisions of article R. 6152-413, a contractual practitioner who has an open-ended contract as provided for in article R. 6152-403 may be dismissed, after receiving the opini…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Compensation for victims of acts of terrorism and other offences.

Article L422-1

For the purposes of Article L. 126-1, full compensation for personal injury is provided through the Fonds de garantie des victimes des actes de terrorisme et d'autres infractions (Guarantee Fund for V…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Direct taxes and assimilated taxes. Income tax. Corporation tax. Duties and penalties

Article 1663 bis

When the taxpayer taxed under the conditions of 1 of article 202 becomes, within a period of three months from the date of cessation of activity, a partner in a liberal practice company mentioned in A…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: List of essential information to be provided by the State representative (R).

Article D1612-1

The prefect communicates to the mayors: 1° A statement indicating the forecast amount of the net bases of each of the four direct local taxes and the tax for the removal of household waste chargeable…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-12

The profession of industrial property attorney is incompatible:1° With any activity of a commercial nature, whether exercised directly or through an intermediary;2° With the capacity of partner in a g…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
19° sexies : Tax reduction for expenses relating to the conservation or restoration of movable objects classified as historical monuments

Article 199 duovicies

…oric monuments which they own.II. - The tax reduction applies when the following conditions are met:1° The work is authorised and carried out in accordance with the requirements of article L. 622-12 o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Public territorial establishments

Article L5219-10

…ties or public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status existing on 31 December 2014 which participate in the exercise of the competences of the Greater Paris metropolit…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
6: Payroll tax

Article 1679 A

The payroll tax due by associations governed by the law of 1st July 1901, foundations recognised as being in the public interest, cancer centres mentioned in article L. 6162-1 of the Public Health Cod…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Other payment instruments

Article D734-12

…e right-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeD. 133-1 to D. 133-32009-934 of 29 July 2009D. 133-4No. 2017-1314 of 31 August 2017D. 133-5 to D. 133-7…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Other payment instruments

Article D732-12

…e right-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeD. 133-1 to D. 133-32009-934 of 29 July 2009D. 133-4No. 2017-1314 of 31 August 2017D. 133-5 to D. 133-7…

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