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French General Tax CodeIn force
1 ter : Taxation of capital gains realised under a construction lease

Article 151 quater

…A. For the application of the provisions of article 150 U, the amount of the net capital gain is determined at the time the lease is signed on the basis of the value of the property at that date; the…

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II ter: Consolidation within a group of the payment of value added tax and similar taxes

Article 1693 ter A

…oup in respect of a period prior to the entry into force of the option provided for in Article 1693 ter may not be carried forward on a return whose elements are taken into account for the calculation…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
0I ter : Declaration by the public corporation SNCF Réseau

Article 1649 A ter

Each year, SNCF Réseau declares to the tax authorities the rail transport companies that reserved train paths for passenger transport operations during the previous year and the number of train paths…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title V: Provisions common to Titles I, II and IV

Article 1378 ter

Transfers of any kind which, in the case of construction leases, real estate leases or joint real estate leases, have as their object the rights of the lessor or lessee are subject to the tax provisio…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
16° : Real estate investment companies and real estate management companies

Article 139 ter

…de Article 119 bis, insofar as they derive from profits exempt from corporation tax pursuant to 3° ter of article 208, dividends and other income distributed to their shareholders or unit holders: 1°…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II. Declarations made by insurance companies, provident institutions, associations and mutual societies

Article 1649 ter

…holder's seventieth birthday and 1 January of the year of the declaration, where this amount is greater than or equal to €7,500;2° For other contracts, regardless of when they were taken out, the cumu…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1791 ter

The fine of €100 to €750 provided for in I of Article 1791 is set at €2,000 to €10,000 in the case of illicit manufacture, possession, sale or transport of tobacco. This fine is set at €100,000 to €50…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1798 ter

…pealed)2° For infringements of the rules relating to the obligation and procedures for keeping registers: a fine of €15 per omission or inaccuracy or a penalty of between one and three times, dependin…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Taxpayer returns

Article 170 ter

…rd party. The mission of the trusted third party consists exclusively, on the basis of a contract entered into with the taxpayer, of: 1° receiving the supporting documents filed and presented by the t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VI : Waiver of payment and rebate in the event of death as a result of an act of terrorism, participation in an external or internal security operation or in circumstances leading to a citation in the Order of the Nation

Article 1691 ter

…heirs and, where applicable, to cohabitants liable for payment of the persons mentioned in 1° to 2° ter and 7° to 10° of I of l'article 796 :1°(Repealed);2° For income tax, a discharge of payment equa…

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