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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Trusts

Article 238 quater B

I. - Profits or losses and capital gains or losses resulting from the transfer, carried out pursuant to a trust transaction defined in article 2011 of the Civil Code, into a trust estate of assets and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Income tax deducted at source

Article 182 A bis

I. - Sums paid, including salaries, in consideration for artistic services provided or used in France, by a debtor who carries on business in France to persons or companies, subject to income tax or c…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Ic: Determination of the share of profits corresponding to rights held in a partnership, a co-ownership of a racehorse or stallion, an economic interest grouping, a public interest grouping or a European economic interest grouping

Article 238 bis K

I. - Where rights in a company or group referred to in Articles 8,8 quinquies, 239 quater, 239 quater B, 239 quater C or 239 quater D are included in the assets of a legal entity liable to corporation…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1st Subsection: General provisions

Article 223 A bis

I. - By way of exception to the first sentence of the first paragraph of I of Article 223 A, when a public industrial and commercial establishment subject to corporation tax under ordinary law draws u…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Taxable transactions and persons

Article 1635 quater B

Development projects and construction, reconstruction and extension projects for buildings, installations or developments of any kind subject to an authorisation system under the town planning code gi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XI ter: Taxation of certain public limited companies, simplified joint stock companies and limited liability companies. Opting for the partnership system

Article 239 bis AB

I.-Public limited companies (sociétés anonymes), simplified joint stock companies (sociétés par actions simplifiées) and limited liability companies (sociétés à responsabilité limitée), the securities…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 163 bis F

Subject to the provisions of Article 150-0 D the benefits granted to tobacco retailers designated in Article 568, resulting from discounts on the transfer price, the distribution of free shares and th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Payroll tax

Article 231 bis I

1. Remuneration paid to apprentices by companies employing ten or fewer employees is exempt from payroll tax. 2. (Repealed for salaries paid from 1 January 1996). 3. For companies other than those men…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1639 A bis

I. - Deliberations by local authorities and competent bodies relating to direct local taxation, other than those setting either the rates or the products of taxation, and other than those instituting…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Common provisions

Article 1724 quater B

A client who has been informed in writing of the intervention of a subcontractor or subdelegatee who is in an irregular situation with regard to the provisions on undeclared work and who has not enjoi…

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