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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Scope of free transfer duties

Article 751

For tax purposes, any transferable security, movable or immovable property belonging to the deceased as usufructuary and to one of his presumptive heirs or their descendants as bare owner, even if exc…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Scope of free transfer duties

Article 754

Sums, securities or objects found in a safe rented jointly to several persons are deemed, in the absence of proof to the contrary and solely for the collection of duties, to be the joint property of t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Scope of free transfer duties

Article 754 B

I. - In accordance with the provisions of IV of Article L. 212-3 of the Monetary and Financial Code, where they do not prove that they have taken all necessary steps to ensure that the provisions of t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b : Deductible liabilities

Article 769

Debts payable by the deceased, which were contracted for the purchase of property included in the estate and exempt from death duties or in the interest of such property, are set off by priority again…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Basis for free transfer tax

Article 776 A

In accordance with article 1078-3 of the Civil Code, the agreements provided for by articles 1078-1 and 1078-2 of the same code are not subject to gratuitous transfer duties. The first paragraph appli…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Taxation

Article 674

Less than €25 may not be levied in cases where the sums and values would not produce €25 of proportional duty or tax or progressive duty.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Taxation

Article 676

With regard to transfers and agreements subject to a condition precedent, the applicable tax regime and the taxable values are determined from the date on which the condition is fulfilled. However, wh…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tariffs and their application

Article 680

All transactions that are neither exempted nor priced by any other article of this code and that cannot give rise to proportional or progressive taxation are subject to a fixed tax of €125. The transa…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Transfer of ownership of movable property for valuable consideration

Article 725

…ease or of the benefit of a promise to lease relating to all or part of an immovable property, regardless of the form given to it by the parties, whether it is described as a transfer of key money, se…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a : Formality of registration

Article 655

Wills made in foreign countries may not be executed on property situated in France, unless they have been registered with the tax office of the testator's domicile, if he has retained one, otherwise w…

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