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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Direct taxes and assimilated taxes. Income tax. Corporation tax. Duties and penalties

Article 1665 bis

Taxpayers shall receive, no later than 1st March of the year in which the tax relating to the previous year's income is settled, an advance payment on the amount of the tax benefits provided for in ar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Pharmaceutical products.

Article L5521-7

…5132-6 and L. 5132-7 shall apply to Wallis and Futuna in the version resulting from Law No. 2020-1525 of 7 December 2020 on the acceleration and simplification of public action. Article L. 5134-1 is…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation and operation

Article L5843-2

…conditions laid down by the legislation applicable to the communes of French Polynesia. Article L. 2573-43 is applicable to mixed syndicates formed in French Polynesia in application of Book VII of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Labelling.

Article R5141-73

Without prejudice to the information required by the legislative and regulatory provisions relating to poisonous substances, the labelling of the immediate packaging and the outer packaging of a veter…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: Internal taxes.

Article 266 sexies

…tained from crushed or fractionated rocks, the largest dimension of which is less than or equal to 125 millimetres and the characteristics and uses of which are laid down by decree;b) Any person who,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Approval

Article L532-9

…ity and pension schemes; 4° Institutions for occupational retirement provision covered by Directive 2003/41/EC of 3 June 2003 on the activities and supervision of institutions for occupational retirem…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Resource equalisation

Article L2336-2

…I de l'article 1648 B du code général des impôts, as it stood prior to the finance law for 2004 (no 2003-1311 of 30 December 2003), and by the grouping in respect of the compensation allowance provide…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Deduction of withholding tax and tax credits

Article 199 ter S

…ary to reimburse the benefit unduly received. This may not exceed the amount of the tax credit plus 25%. A decree defines the terms and conditions for the repayment of the undue benefit by the benefic…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia and New Caledonia

Article L771-7

…ynesia or New Caledonia, it shall inform the Overseas Issuing Institute mentioned in Article L. 721-25 of the Monetary and Financial Code. The latter informs the Banque de France for the purposes of r…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title II: RULES FOR THE FORMATION AND PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN CONTRACTS

Article R221-2

…ng the legal guarantee of conformity referred to in articles L. 217-3 and following articles L. 224-25-12 and following, the guarantee against hidden defects referred to in articles 1641 to 1649 of th…

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