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Showing 121130 of 48715 articles for Art. Cass. soc. 24 January 1990 · Cass. soc. 17 March 1998 · Cass. soc. 15 May 2014 · Cass. soc. 6 October 2010 · Cass. soc. 21 October 1998 · Cass. soc. 15 October 1997 · Cass. soc. 16 May 1990 · Cass. soc. 31 March 2015

French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 156

…the property and capital owned by the members of the tax household designated in 1 and 3 of article 6, the professions they exercise, the salaries, wages, pensions and life annuities they enjoy as wel…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Regional school equipment grants

Article R4332-15

After the Finance Bill has been deposited on the National Assembly's desk and before 15 October each year at the latest, the regional prefect informs the region of the provisional amount of the region…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: The procedure for approving a partial agreement and adjudicating the residual dispute

Article 1560

…eached only a partial agreement and unless they request its homologation in accordance with Article 1557, they may apply to the judge for a ruling on the residual dispute either in accordance with the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 153

…there is no plausible reason to suspect that he has committed or attempted to commit an offence, he may be detained only for the time strictly necessary for his hearing. If he fails to comply with thi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
F: Assessment procedure

Article 1503

…the communal direct tax commission draw up the list of reference premises referred to in article 1496, determine their weighted surface area and establish the corresponding assessment rates. The tax d…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title I: Agreement-based mediation and conciliation

Article 1535

…uthority of another Member State of the European Union under the conditions provided for in Article 6 of Directive 2008/52/EC of 21 May 2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain as…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Rules specific to the 1970-1974 five-yearly review

Article 1515

…or property.2. The decisions taken by the committee are notified to the tax authorities and to the mayors of the municipalities in the department. The mayor shall have the said decisions posted in ac…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 312-17

…writing aid for fiction projects, the amount of aid is set at :a) For series projects: €30,000 and €15,000 where the projected duration per episode is less than 10 minutes;b) For single work projects:…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 158

…essed according to the rules set out in articles 12 and 13 and under the conditions set out in 2 to 6 ter below, without it being necessary to distinguish according to whether these incomes have their…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Household waste collection tax

Article 1526

Supplementary rolls may be drawn up on the basis of facts existing on 1 January of the year of taxation.

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