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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Direct taxes and assimilated taxes. Income tax. Corporation tax. Duties and penalties

Article 1663 B

1. After deducting tax reductions and credits, levies, deductions at source and instalments, the balance of the income tax and other taxes appearing on the same roll item is recovered under the condit…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title VI: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article R764-2

…cable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands in their wording resulting from Decree no. 2020-1734 of 16 December 2020, unless otherwise stated in the table below.Articles applicableIn their wording resultin…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter V: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN FRENCH POLYNESIA

Article R765-2

…ons are applicable in French Polynesia in their wording resulting from Decree no. 2020-1734 of 16 December 2020, unless otherwise stated in the table below.Articles applicableIn their wording resultin…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title VI: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article R766-2

…isions are applicable in New Caledonia in their wording resulting from Decree no. 2020-1734 of 16 December 2020, unless otherwise stated in the table below.Articles applicableIn their wording resultin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Capital increase.

Article L3332-21

…on the capital increase may provide for the free allocation of shares or other securities giving access to the capital. The total benefit resulting from this allocation and, where applicable, from th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Lifelong vocational guidance

Article L6111-5

…t it adopts, organisations may be recognised as participating in the regional public lifelong guidance service if they offer any person a set of services enabling them to: 1° To have access to exhaust…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of the budget

Article LO6262-10

…the territorial authority. The vote of the territorial council approving the accounts must take place no later than 30 June of the year following the financial year. The administrative account is app…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Samples taken from a living person.

Article R1211-3

…he first paragraph of article 30 of decree no. 92-566 of 25 June 1992 setting the conditions and procedures for the payment of expenses arising from travel by civil servants and hospital civil servant…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for registration on the list of statutory auditors

Article R822-4

…ing period provided for in Article 67 of Decree no. 2012-432 of 30 March 2012 relating to the practice of public accounting must have been completed either with a person registered on the list of stat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article D3421-2

…Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne shall pay each year, in respect of the current financial year, advance payments each corresponding to 30% of their forecast contribution as it results from the amount o…

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