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Showing 40514060 of 4213 articles for Art. CE 31 Mar 2017 n° 401059

French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Payment of tax

Article 223 O

…on tax for which it is liable in respect of each financial year:a. Tax credits attached to income received by a group company and which did not give entitlement to the application of the parent compan…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Payroll tax

Article 231

…sment for the contribution provided for in article L. 136-1 of the Social Security Code, with the exception of the benefits mentioned in the I of articles 80 bis and 80 quaterdecies of this code. The…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section XIIa: Taxes levied for the benefit of communities of communes and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation

Article 1609 quinquies BA

…te paragraph of 1° of 3 of I of article 1640 C. The member municipalities of these establishments receive the additional fraction, provided for in the last paragraph of 1° of 3 of I of the same articl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions applicable to companies established in France

Article R123-4

…sons; > b) The legal form of the company. b) The legal form of the company; > c) The registered office of the company. c) The registered office of the company, the domicile of the declarant or the add…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Notice of payment of the fixed parking charge

Article R2333-120-4

I. - The amount of the fixed-rate parking charge due is notified by a payment notice that comprises two parts entitled respectively "Establishment of the payment notice for the fixed-rate parking char…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: General conditions

Article L1618-2

…hich is deferred for reasons beyond the control of the local authority or public establishment;4° Exceptional income, the list of which is set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.II. - The funds whose ori…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Wanted persons file

Article 230-19

…1° Search warrants, orders and notes issued by the public prosecutor, investigating, trial or sentence enforcement courts, the liberty and custody judge and the juvenile judge for the purpose of searc…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 156 bis

…ns of Article 156 specific to buildings classified or registered as historic monuments, or having received the label issued by the Fondation du patrimoine pursuant to article L. 143-2 of the French He…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Periodic updating of the rental value of built and unbuilt properties

Article 1518 ter

…dify the application of the location coefficients mentioned in 2 of B of II of article 1498 after receiving the opinion of the communal or inter-communal direct tax commissions respectively mentioned…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Investment rules.

Article R214-32-19

…rned by foreign law that meet the criteria laid down in the general regulations of the Autorité des marchés financiers; 6° Shares or units in the following FIAs or undertakings for collective investme…

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