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Showing 110 of 2313 articles for Art. 1882 · Cass. com. 26 November 1996 · CGI Art. 1042 · CGI Art. 1961

French General Tax CodeIn force
7°: Local authorities, local public bodies and local public companies

Article 1042

I. - Subject to the provisions of I of Article 257, real estate acquisitions made out of court and for valuable consideration by communes or syndicates of communes, public land establishments created…

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7°: Local authorities, local public bodies and local public companies

Article 1042 B

The tax rules concerning gratuitous transfers to local authorities or public inter-municipal cooperation establishments with their own tax status of property allocated to student accommodation are def…

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7°: Local authorities, local public bodies and local public companies

Article 1042 A

Transfers of property, rights and obligations resulting from mergers or the creation of new communes are exempt from registration duty, land registration tax and the contribution provided for in artic…

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2: Mutations

Article 1882

The transfer of ownership of businesses or clienteles is sufficiently established, for the claim and prosecution of registration duties and fines, by the acts or writings which reveal the existence of…

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8: Provisions specific to registration duty, land registration tax, the property security contribution, stamp duty and the special tax on insurance policies

Article 1961

Registration duties or the land registration tax when it takes the place of these duties and the contribution provided for in article 879, are not subject to restitution once they have been duly colle…

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8: Provisions specific to registration duty, land registration tax, the property security contribution, stamp duty and the special tax on insurance policies

Article 1961 bis

Unless it takes the place of registration duties under article 664, the land registration tax is only refundable in the event of an error by the service responsible for land registration. Subject to t…

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8: Provisions specific to registration duty, land registration tax, the property security contribution, stamp duty and the special tax on insurance policies

Article 1961 ter

When the requirements set out in article 1702 bis are not complied with, the land registration tax collected once again is not refundable.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Optional taxable transactions

Article 260

…or (1). 3° (Repealed); 4° (Repealed); 5° Persons who grant a lease referred to in 1° bis of article 261 D; 5° bis Persons who carry out a transaction referred to in 5 of article 261; 6° From 1st Octob…

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III: Exempt transactions

Article 261

…icles are sold to persons other than second-hand goods dealers (Law no. 89-935 of 29 December 1989, art. 31 I 2 and 3);b. (Obsolete provision);2° (repealed)4. (Liberal professions and miscellaneous ac…

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III: Exempt transactions

Article 263

…ng in the name and on behalf of others, where they are involved in transactions exempted by article 262 and in transactions carried out outside the territory of the Member States of the European Union…

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