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French General Tax CodeIn force
XXVIII: Tax credit for competitiveness and employment

Article 244 quater C

…r year. Remuneration, as defined for the calculation of social security contributions in article L. 242-1 du code de la sécurité sociale, not exceeding two and a half times the minimum growth wage cal…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: French investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L532-24-1-A

The provisions of Articles L. 532-23 and L. 532-24 apply ipso jure to the provision of the investment services mentioned in Article L. 321-1. They may also apply to the joint provision of related serv…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: French UCITS portfolio management companies

Article L532-24-1

…uthorised in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 that wishes to establish a branch in another Member State of the European Union or party…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XL : Tax credit for arts and crafts

Article 244 quater O

…re directly allocated to the creation of works mentioned in 1° and to the production of prototypes ;3° Costs of registering designs and models relating to the works mentioned in 1°;4° Costs of defendi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Preliminary sub-section: Scope and transitional provisions relating to the governance of investment firms

Article L533-24-2

Sub-sections 2, 3 and 4 of this section do not apply to class 3 investment firms. Where a class 2 investment firm finds that it qualifies as a class 3 investment firm, subsections 2, 3 and 4 cease to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section XIV: Tax on surplus reserves of non-life insurance companies

Article 235 ter X

…rposes of calculating this tax, the reinstated surplus provisions are reduced by an excess equal to 3% of the amount of each surplus and the claims payments made during the year from the corresponding…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article R6341-24-8

…al Security Code : 1° The amounts paid as remuneration for the training periods mentioned in 2° and 3° of article L. 6341-2 and in article L. 6341-3, except where such remuneration is determined by ta…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: French UCITS portfolio management companies

Article L532-24-2

…uthorised in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 shall submit an application to the competent authorities of the UCITS home Member State,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Formation of the company

Article R743-139-23

…tners with an indication, as appropriate, of their profession or status with regard to article R. 743-139-2, followed, for each, by an indication of the share of capital they hold in the company.The M…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-23-2

The organisation of on-call duty and urgent medical transport as defined in articles R. 6312-17-1 and R. 6312-18 is monitored every six months by the medical transport sub-committee of the committee r…

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