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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 211

…income tax in the name of the beneficiaries under the conditions set out in Article 62.For the application of this article, managers who do not personally own shares in the company are considered to b…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 216

I.-The net income from holdings, giving entitlement to the application of the parent company regime and referred to in article 145, received during a financial year by a parent company, may be deducte…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 213

…allowed as deductible expenses for tax purposes.The same applies, without prejudice to taxes which cannot be deducted by virtue of 4° of 1 of Article 39, to the taxes provided for in 1° of Article L.…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IV: Taxable persons - Place of taxation

Article 218

…in the name of the legal entity or association for all of its taxable activities in France. In the cases referred to in 4 of Article 206, the tax is established in the name of the company or the mana…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 214

1. The following are allowed as deductions: 1° In the case of sociétés coopératives de consommation, bonuses arising from transactions with members and distributed to the latter in proportion to the o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Injunction and regularisation

Article R131-21-1

Pursuant to articles L. 733-18 and L. 743-1 of the French Consumer Code, the cancellation of a debt corresponding to the amount of an unpaid cheque is deemed to constitute regularisation of the incide…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 5 : Acquisition of French nationality by decision of the public authorities

Article 21-17

…vided for in Articles 21-18, 21-19 and 21-20, naturalisation may only be granted to a foreigner who can prove habitual residence in France for the five years preceding the submission of the applicatio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Access to payment accounts

Article D133-12

As soon as a payment service provider managing accounts has a dedicated interface complying with the obligations set out in Article 32 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2018/389 of 27 Novembe…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Acquisition of French nationality by birth and residence in France

Article 21-10

…rovisions of articles 21-7 to 21-9 do not apply to children born in France to diplomatic agents and career consuls of foreign nationality. However, these children have the option of voluntarily acquir…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition and operating rules

Article R783-21

…low shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from th…

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