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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIIIa: Basic excess

Article 293 B

…persons carrying out an occult activity within the meaning of the second paragraph of Article L. 169 of the Book of Tax Procedures, benefit from an exemption which exempts them from paying value adde…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Electronic voting.

Article R713-25-1

…ronic voting system compromising the smooth running of the ballot, the national technical committee may take any information and safeguard measures and, if necessary, decide to suspend the voting oper…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R515-25

…tutory auditors appointed in accordance with the provisions of articles L. 511-38, D. 511-8, D. 511-9 and D. 612-53 to R. 612-60. The statutory auditors are subject to the obligations set out in artic…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Contribution to payment

Article 1712

The duties of civil and judicial deeds involving the transfer of ownership or usufruct of movable or immovable property, shall be borne by the new possessors, and those of all other deeds shall be bor…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1784

Notwithstanding the provisions of articles 1727 and 1731, no late payment interest or surcharge is applicable where the advance payment determined in accordance with the rules laid down in article 169…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Funeral operations

Article L2542-25

The provisions of this section will be repealed five years after 9 January 1993, the date of publication of the loi n° 93-23 du 8 janvier 1993 modifiant le titre VI du livre III du code des communes e…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Derogations on a geographical basis

Article L3132-25-3

…ekly rest by rotation for all or some of the staff, as provided for in articles L. 3132-24, L. 3132-25, L. 3132-25-1 and L. 3132-25-6, establishments must be covered either by a company or establishme…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Compulsory taxable transactions

Article 256 bis

…f deduction;c) By a farmer placed under the flat-rate reimbursement scheme provided for in articles 298 quater and 298 quinquies.These provisions only apply when the amount of the acquisitions made by…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Failure to balance the budget (R)

Article R1612-25

…get, sent to the regional audit chamber, in accordance with the second paragraph of article L. 1612-9 has not been adopted in real balance, the representative of the State shall refer the matter to th…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Execution of investigative measures.

Article 173

…rties by the clerk of the court who drew them up or by the technician who drew them up, as the case may be. A mention of this is made on the original.

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