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French General Tax CodeIn force
VII: Operations involving manufactured tobacco

Article 298 sexdecies

In the departments of Réunion, Martinique and Guadeloupe, trade margins subsequent to manufacture or importation remain excluded from value added tax.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VII: Operations involving manufactured tobacco

Article 298 quindecies

As regards tobacco imported into the departments of mainland France, the value added tax which has been charged on the components of their price is deductible from the tax due in respect of other taxa…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VII: Operations involving manufactured tobacco

Article 298 quaterdecies

I. - Transactions involving manufactured tobacco are subject to value added tax under the conditions of ordinary law, subject to the provisions below.II. - The chargeable event for the value added tax…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Title of works

Article 521

Manufacturers of gold, silver or platinum articles are subject to the guarantee legislation provided for in this chapter, not only in respect of their own production but also for articles which they h…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
6°: Exemption from traffic formalities

Article 458

Sont affranchés des formalités à la circulation :1° (Repealed);2° (Repealed);3° and 4° (repealed)5° (Repealed);6° Under the conditions laid down by order of the Minister responsible for the budget mad…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Title of works

Article 522

The legal titles of gold works and the legal titles of silver or platinum works are as follows: a) 999 thousandths, 916 thousandths, 750 thousandths, 585 thousandths and 375 thousandths for gold artic…

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Section I: General formalities for removal

Article 614

It is forbidden for anyone to allow objects, products or goods subject to duties or regulations to be removed from their home without completing the regulatory formalities.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Natural sweet wines

Article 416

The designation of "vin doux naturel" is reserved for wines whose production is traditional and customary:Vinified directly by the harvesting producers and made exclusively from their harvests of musc…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Circulation, possession and trade in tobacco products

Article 575 M

In respect of manufactured tobacco imported into the departments of metropolitan France, infringements of the provisions of articles 571 and 575 E bis shall be investigated, recorded, prosecuted and p…

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4°: Obligations of holders

Article 308

Any holder of apparatus or portions of apparatus suitable for the distillation, manufacture or ironing of eaux-de-vie or spirits, is required to make a declaration to the administration, within five d…

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