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French General Tax CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Taxable transactions and persons

Article 1635 quater B

Development projects and construction, reconstruction and extension projects for buildings, installations or developments of any kind subject to an authorisation system under the town planning code gi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Subsection 10: Payment of the tax

Article 1635 quater T

The development tax and, where applicable, its instalments are paid to the beneficiary local authorities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation in accordance with procedures specifi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Categories of incidents, terms and conditions for reporting significant or serious information systems security incidents

Article D1111-16-2

I.-The reporting of serious information system security incidents as provided for in Article L. 1111-8-2 is intended to :1° Provide the competent State authorities with the information they need to de…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V quinquies : Duties levied for the benefit of the Caisse nationale de l'assurance maladie (National Health Insurance Fund)

Article 1635 bis AG

I. - The submission of any application for registration, renewal of registration or modification of registration of a health product on the list provided for in I of Article L. 165-11 of the Social Se…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section XIII sexies : Capital gains tax on the sale of buildings other than building land

Article 1609 nonies G

I. - A tax is introduced on capital gains realised under the conditions provided for in articles 150 U and 150 UB to 150 UD by natural persons or companies or groupings covered by articles 8 to 8 ter…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1639 A ter

I. - Deliberations taken with regard to business property tax by a public establishment of inter-communal cooperation prior to the date of the decision placing it under the tax regime of article 1609…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions.

Article R511-16-3

Each of the persons who effectively directs the business of the credit institution or finance company within the meaning of Article L. 511-13 and each member of the Board of Directors, the Supervisory…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Approved associations of the liberal professions

Article 1649 quater H

The associations mentioned in article 1649 quater F ensure that the income tax, turnover tax, business value added tax and, where applicable, foreign income tax returns submitted by their members are…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section XIIa: Taxes levied for the benefit of communities of communes and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation

Article 1609 quinquies C

I. - The public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation mentioned in 1 of III of Article 1379-0 bis are substituted for the member municipalities for the provisions relating to the business pro…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section XIIa: Taxes levied for the benefit of communities of communes and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation

Article 1609 quinquies BA

1. From 1st January 2011, the business value added levy collected by the public inter-municipal cooperation establishments mentioned in II of article 1379-0 bis is equal to the share mentioned in 5° o…

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