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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 302 bis KH

I. - A tax is hereby introduced payable by any electronic communications operator, within the meaning of Article L. 32 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code, which provides a service i…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2 bis: Withholding of income tax at source

Article 119 bis A

1. Is deemed to constitute distributed income subject to the withholding tax provided for in Article 2 of 119 bis any payment, up to the amount corresponding to the distribution of proceeds from units…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-22

…f Article R. 356-8 calculated using the deduction and aggregation method is equal to the difference between: a) The group's eligible own funds on an aggregated basis, as defined in II of this Article;…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter one: Setting the rates used to calculate direct local taxation

Article 1636 B octies

I. - The proceeds of the special equipment taxes levied for the benefit of the public land establishments referred to in articles L. 321-1 et L. 324-1 of the town planning code, the Etablissement publ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Legal system for acts taken by municipal authorities

Article R2131-2-B

…cle R. 2131-2-A defines the overall architecture of the chain for the remote transmission of acts subject to legality control as well as the characteristics required for the approval of a remote trans…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Control and prohibition of collective water misting systems

Article R1335-22

…cy, considers that one of the requirements resulting from articles R. 1335-16 to R. 1335-20 has not been complied with, he shall give formal notice to the operator, by any means capable of giving a da…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 7b: Temporary withholding of cash

Article 67 ter B

…rticle 2(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1672 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on controls of cash entering or leaving the Union and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1889/200…

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

Article 239 bis AB

I.-Public limited companies (sociétés anonymes), simplified joint stock companies (sociétés par actions simplifiées) and limited liability companies (sociétés à responsabilité limitée), the securities…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Company accounts.

Article R232-22

When the filing of the accounting documents is accompanied by a declaration of confidentiality of the annual accounts pursuant to Article R. 123-111-1, the clerk of the commercial court shall complete…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter III: Miscellaneous taxes

Article 231 bis D

…L. 5422-10, the first and second paragraphs of article L. 5428-1 and of article L. 3232-6 of the Labour Code, the allowances, indemnities and contributions mentioned in these same articles are exempt…

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