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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter VIa: Adjustment of reporting obligations

Article 440-1

…payment of the duties and taxes concerned and the late payment interest provided for in article 440 bis and where this payment is either immediate or made under a duty payment plan granted by the cust…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Council tax

Article 1414

I. - (Repealed).I bis. - (Repealed).II. - The following are automatically exempted from council tax on secondary residences and other furnished premises not used as a main residence:1° Managers of you…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article D15-1-1

…undercover operations defined by Article 706-81 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and by article 67 bis-II of the Customs Code and the centralisation of information from these operations carried out b…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 242 ter

…declaration does not concern:1° Exempt income and interest referred to in 7°, 7° ter, 7° quater, 9° bis and 9° quater of article 157 ;2° (Not applicable);3° (Repealed);4° Income from holdings distribu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2

…s mentioned in Article L. 511-22 and the financial institutions mentioned in Article L. 511-23 ; 1° bis Payment institutions governed by the provisions of Chapter II of Title II of this Book, includin…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Conditions relating to aid intensity

Article 411-9

…aid for the production of a given short-lived cinematographic or audiovisual work may not:1° Exceed 80% of the final production cost of this work and, in the case of an international co-production, 80…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L111-7

…ible for social security when they relate to operations mentioned in 1° and 2° of article L. 310-1. II - An order of the Minister for the Economy and the Minister for Social Security sets the conditio…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Provisions common to property liable to direct local taxes

Article 1518

I. - In the interval between two general reviews, the rental values defined in I and II of article 1496 and article 1497, as well as those for commercial premises mentioned in article 1501 and those f…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
13°: Financing certain export transactions

Article 136

The withholding tax provided for in 1 of l'article 119 bis et du prélèvement prévu au I de Article 125 A interest, arrears and all other income from bond issues contracted before 1 January 1965 by cre…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Value added tax

Article L334-4

…c supports of works of a pornographic nature or inciting to violence mentioned in 3° of article 279 bis of the General Tax Code.

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