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Showing 371380 of 57820 articles for Art. EU Regulation 2016/1103 · Hague Convention of 14 March 1978

French Civil CodeIn force
Part I: Legal community

Article 1400

The community, which is established in the absence of a contract or by the simple declaration that one is marrying under the community regime, is subject to the rules explained in the three sections t…

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

Article R356-14

…ities are valued in accordance with Article L. 351-1. The methods for calculating the best estimate of the prudential technical provisions referred to in Article L. 351-2, on the basis of consolidated…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1418

I.- Owners of premises used for residential purposes are required to declare to the tax authorities, before 1 July each year, information relating to the nature of the occupation of these premises if…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Tax base

Article 1413

…may appeal against their omission from the roll within the period provided for in Article R. 196-2 of the Book of Tax Procedures.II. - When, in respect of a year, an assessment of council tax on seco…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Tax base

Article 1409

…nd homes and other furnished premises not allocated to the main dwelling is calculated on the basis of the rental value of the dwellings and their outbuildings, such as garages, pleasure gardens, park…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable premises

Article 1407

…tely by companies, associations and private bodies and which are not retained for the establishment of the business property tax;3° For furnished premises of a non-industrial or non-commercial nature…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1453

…riages are not used simultaneously, that they have no more than seven seats and that the conditions of carriage comply with a statutory tariff.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1450

…ty tax (cotisation foncière des entreprises). Also exempt are employers' groups made up exclusively of individual farmers or agricultural non-trading companies benefiting from the exemption, and opera…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1452

…als belonging to them, whether or not they have a sign or a shop, when they only use the assistance of one or more apprentices who are no more than twenty years old at the start of the apprenticeship…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1449

…ess property tax:1° Local authorities, public establishments and State bodies, for their activities of an essentially cultural, educational, health, social, sporting or tourist nature, regardless of t…

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