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French General Tax CodeIn force
0I bis : Transfers of assets outside France by companies

Article 238 bis-0 I bis

I. - Proceeds from the investment of the portion of sums received from the issue of securities covered by the provisions of Article L. 228-97 of the French Commercial Code transferred outside France t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1464 I bis

I.-Where they have applied the provisions of I of article 1464 I, the municipalities and their public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status may, by a deliberation of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section 0I ter: Levy on sums paid by insurance and similar organisations in respect of insurance contracts in the event of death

Article 990 I bis

I. - 1. Where they do not fall within the scope of II ter of article 125-0 A or of I ter of article 990 I, sums which, on the day they were deposited with the Caisse des dépôts et consignations, were…

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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 (Repealed for salaries paid from 1 January 1996). 3.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
Ia: Revaluation of non-depreciable fixed assets

Article 238 bis I

I. - Natural or legal persons carrying on a commercial, industrial, craft, agricultural or liberal profession activity are authorised to revalue their non-depreciable fixed assets, including equity in…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Exemption

Article 1594 I bis

The departmental councils of the overseas departments may, by deliberation, exempt from land registration tax or registration duty the acquisition of buildings that the purchaser undertakes to allocat…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
0I bis : Transfers of assets outside France by companies

Article 238 bis-0 I

I. - A company which has transferred or transfers outside France, directly or indirectly, by itself or through a third party, elements of its assets to a person, to a body, in a trust or in a comparab…

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French Customs CodeIn force
B. - Prescription against the administration.

Article 354 bis

The right of recovery provided for in Article 103(1) of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 establishing the Customs Code of the Union, applicab…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1a: Exemptions

Article 35 bis

I. - Persons who rent or sublet one or more rooms in their principal residence on a furnished basis until 15 July 2024 are exempt from income tax on the proceeds of this rental provided that the rooms…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: On import.

Article 35 bis

Where the declared value is lower than the customs value without the declaration of the elements of the value being vitiated by inaccuracy or omission as regards the points of fact and in the absence…

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