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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Agricultural and forestry land development

Article 1023

Plans, minutes, certificates, notifications, deliberations, decisions, rulings, contracts, receipts, and generally all acts or formalities relating exclusively to the application of Chapters I, III, I…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3°: Uncultivated land. Development

Article 1025

…o L. 125-13 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code are exempt, subject to the provisions of article 1020, from registration duties. These provisions will be extended by decree to Guadeloupe, French Gu…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Caisses de mutualité sociale agricole (agricultural social security funds)

Article 1027

I. - The tax benefits provided by articles 1083 and 1084 are applicable to the caisses de mutualité sociale agricole. II. - 1. As stated in article L. 723-4 of the Code rural et de la pêche maritime,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Damage to private property caused by public works

Article 1059

Subject to the provisions of 3° of Article 679, plans, reports, certificates, notifications, judgments, contracts, receipts and other acts made pursuant to the loi du 29 décembre 1892 sur les dommages…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Public utility establishments

Article 1039

Subject to the provisions of article 1020, the transfer made, in whatever form and in the general interest or good administration, for the benefit of an establishment recognised as being of public uti…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Construction. Housing

Article 1054

…ting to the improvement of certain housing estates are exempt, subject to the provisions of article 1020, registration duties.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Construction. Housing

Article 1055

…ed for the construction of residential buildings are exempt, subject to the provisions of l'article 1020, from registration duties provided that these regroupings have been the subject of an authorisa…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Bank for International Settlements

Article 1060

The Bank for International Settlements' funds and investments from payments from Germany are exempt from any tax burden.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
11°: Expropriation and easements in the public interest

Article 1045

I. - Plans, minutes, certificates, notifications, contracts and other acts made pursuant to articles L. 141-1, L. 251-1, L. 331-5, L. 441-1 and L. 531-1 of the code de l'expropriation pour cause d'uti…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
13°: Communal land

Article 1046

All deeds drawn up under the provisions of the chapitre unique du titre II du livre IV de la deuxième partie du code général des collectivités territoriales relatif au régime de certains biens immobil…

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