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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 217 duodecies

Profits invested in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and the French Southern and Antarctic Territories may, unde…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 210 F

I. - Net capital gains generated on the disposal of premises for office, commercial or industrial use or building land by a legal entity subject to corporation tax under the conditions of ordinary law…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 216 ter

Corporate entities which subscribe before 1 July 1964 to the initial capital of the sociétés immobilières conventionnées referred to in Order no. 58-876 of 24 September 1958 or to their capital increa…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 217 septdecies

1. Mutual insurers and unions governed by the Mutual Code and provident institutions governed by Title III of Book IX of the Social Security Code may allocate a special solvency reserve account up to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IV: Taxable persons - Place of taxation

Article 218 bis

Companies or legal entities liable for corporation tax under Article 206, with the exception of those designated in Article 5 of the aforementioned article, are personally subject to the tax on the sh…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IV: Taxable persons - Place of taxation

Article 218 A

1. Corporation tax is established at the place of the principal establishment of the legal entity. However, the administration may designate as the place of taxation: either that where the effective m…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Expenditure

Article D5217-21

The metropolitan authority may neutralise the depreciation allowance for public buildings, less the amount of the annual write-back of equipment subsidies received to finance these facilities, and the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: European investigation decisions under Directive 2014/41/EU of 3 April 2014

Article 694-19

The detailed rules for the application of this section shall be specified by decree.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-21

The person responsible for the bathing water prepares, for public distribution, a summary document corresponding to the general description of the bathing water based on the bathing water profile. The…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Availability of beneficiaries' rights.

Article D3324-21-2

When a beneficiary requests payment of the profit-sharing in accordance with the provisions of article R. 3324-21-1, the undertakings shall make this payment before the first day of the sixth month fo…

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