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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: General information.

Article 27

1. Imported or exported products are subject to the Tariff Law in the state in which they are located at the time it becomes applicable to them. 2. However, the customs service may authorise the separ…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Standard rate

Article 278

The standard rate of value added tax is set at 20%.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Deductions

Article 272

…on with sales or services shall be imputed or refunded under the conditions provided for in Article 271 when these sales or services are subsequently cancelled or terminated or when the corresponding…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Suspensive arrangements

Article 275

I. - Taxable persons are authorised to receive or import goods free of value added tax if they are destined for a supply for export, an exempt supply under I of article 262 ter, a supply where the pla…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Suspensive arrangements

Article 276

Any person or company intending to avail itself of a legal or regulatory provision to receive products free of value added tax may be required to present, beforehand, a solvent guarantor who undertake…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: General provisions

Article 270

…tax payable in respect of the self-supply of new buildings referred to in A and C of II of article 278 sexies is settled no later than the last day of the sixth month following the month during which…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Deductions

Article 271

…axpayers themselves for imports or exits from the suspensive arrangements mentioned in I of article 277 A;c) That paid by the taxpayers themselves on the purchase or self-delivery of goods or services…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Deductions

Article 273

1. Decrees in the Council of State shall determine the conditions of application of Article 271.They set out in particular:- the date on which the deductions may be made;- the adjustments to which the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Reduced rate

Article 279

…excluding those relating to alcoholic beverages which come under the rate provided for in Article 278;a ter. (Repealed);a quater. (Repealed);a quinquies. Treatment services provided by authorised sp…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Consent to prosecution or enforcement of a sentence for another offence

Article 728-27

Where, before or after the transfer of the sentenced person, the competent authority of the administering State requests the representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office to agree that the sentence…

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