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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 210

…ation of shares or corporate units (capital shares), following mergers of sociétés anonymes, en commandite par actions or à responsabilité limitée are exempt from corporation tax. 2. The same regime a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 205 C

…efined as any widely held undertaking or investment fund with a diversified portfolio of securities and subject to the rules for the protection of unitholders in the country in which it is established…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 208 C

…s are defined as joint stock companies listed on a regulated market in accordance with Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on markets in financial instr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 208 C bis

I. - The provisions of Articles 210 A and 210 B apply to transactions involving listed real estate investment companies, or their subsidiaries, and the companies mentioned in III bis of Article 208 C,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 208 septies

I. - Transfers of assets, rights and obligations carried out, at net book value, by a syndicat de défense des appellations d'origine constituted in the form of a syndicate governed by the loi du 21 ma…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 208 C ter

…the capital gain calculated as the difference between the actual value of these assets on that date and their tax value. This reintegration is made in equal parts over a period of four years. The disp…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 209-0 B

…ty to the Agreement on the European Economic Area a proportion of net tonnage at least equal to 25% and that it undertakes to maintain or increase, during the ten-year period referred to in III, the p…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 209 B

I. - 1. Where a legal entity established in France and liable for corporation tax operates a business outside France or holds directly or indirectly more than 50% of the shares, stocks, financial righ…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 205 D

…ents, expenses or losses deductible from the taxable income of a taxpayer who is resident in France and in another State pursuant to the rules of that State are taken into account in both States, thei…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 208 ter A

Local mutual agricultural credit unions taxable under 2° of 6 of article 206 do not include in their taxable income the interest paid on the shares they hold in the capital of the funds with which the…

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