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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Agriculture

Article 290 bis

…purchase slip or delivery note for any payment corresponding to purchases. (Repealed). (1) See art. 298 quater and 298 quinquies.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Actual turnover system

Article 267 bis

…s, value added tax is only payable on the difference between the value of the manufactured products and that of the corresponding products supplied by the farmers to whom the sale is made. For the pur…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Exempt transactions

Article 261 B

…carrying out an activity exempt from value added tax on the basis of 4, with the exception of 10°, and 7 of article 261, or for which they do not have the status of a taxable person, are exempt from…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Compulsory taxable transactions

Article 257 bis

…leaving of a taxable person as a member of a single taxable person constituted pursuant to article 256 C constitutes the transfer of a total universality benefiting from the provisions of this articl…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Compulsory taxable transactions

Article 256 B

…subject to value added tax for the activity of their administrative, social, educational, cultural and sporting services when their non-taxability does not lead to distortions in the conditions of co…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Optional taxable transactions

Article 260 B

Transactions relating to banking, financial activities and, in general, trading in securities and money, as these activities are defined by decree, may, where they are exempt from value added tax, be…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VI: Persons liable for payment of the tax

Article 283 bis

…rm, supplies of goods or services whose place of taxation is located in France pursuant to Articles 258 to 259 D of this code, is evading his obligations in terms of the declaration or payment of valu…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
21° : Allocation of the tax reduction for donations to charities provided for in article 238 bis

Article 200 bis

The tax reduction provided for in Article 238 bis is deducted from the income tax due for the year in which the expenditure was incurred. Any excess is used for the payment of income tax due in respec…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
V: Taxation of capital gains realised on the sale of movable or immovable property or rights for valuable consideration

Article 200 B

…UC are taxed at a flat rate of 19%. They are taxed at the rates provided for in III bis of article 244 bis A when they are due by members of companies or groupings that come under the articles 8 to 8…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter II: Special rules applicable throughout the customs territory to certain categories of goods.

Article 215 bis

Those holding or transporting goods referred to in 4 and 5 of article 38 above must, at the first request of customs officers, produce either documents certifying that these goods have been brought in…

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