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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Article 28-1

I.-Category A and B customs officers, specially designated by order of the ministers responsible for justice and the budget, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Reporting and information requirements

Article L561-21

Notwithstanding Article L. 561-18, the persons mentioned in 1° to 7°c and in 12°, 12°a, 13°, 18° and 19° of Article L. 561-2 may, when acting for the same customer and in the same transaction or when…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Tax base

Article 1388 quinquies

I. - Unless otherwise decided by the municipality or the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax system in accordance with the conditions set out in I of article 1639 A b…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Tax regimes

Article 69

I. When the average income of a farmer, for all of his farms, exceeds €91,900, excluding tax, over three consecutive years, the person concerned is compulsorily taxed according to a real system of tax…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Household waste collection tax

Article 1521

I. - The tax applies to all properties subject to property tax on built properties or which are temporarily exempt from such tax, as well as to the housing of civil servants or civilian and military e…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations relating to the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing

Article R775-38

I. - Are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in II and III, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XVII ter: Taxation of real estate investment funds

Article 239 nonies

I. - Real estate investment funds are undertakings for collective real estate investment and professional undertakings for collective real estate investment, referred to in paragraph 3 of sub-section…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L5216-7

I. - When some of the communes of a syndicat de communes or a syndicat mixte form part of a communauté d'agglomération, by the creation of this communauté, by the merger of public establishments of in…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter VIa: Adjustment of reporting obligations

Article 440-1

I.-The person liable for a duty or tax recovered in application of this code, with the exception of the European Union's own resources, may either spontaneously, before the expiry of the period provid…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 199 quater B

Holders of income liable to income tax in the category of industrial and commercial profits, agricultural profits or non-commercial profits whose turnover or revenue is below the limits of the schemes…

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