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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Tax base

Article 1468 bis

…1518 ter. The coefficients mentioned in the first paragraph of this I are those applicable for the reference year defined in article 1467 A. The tax base mentioned in the first paragraph of this I me…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Tax rates

Article 1635 quater L

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Exemption from producing the reception certificate referred to in article L. 313-2

Article R313-16

…sation, its corporate purpose, the address of its registered office and, depending on the case, the reference of the articles of association of the association or the registration number of the compan…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Rural solidarity grant.

Article L2334-22-1

…ic group and the commune's per capita income. The income taken into consideration is the last known reference tax income. The population taken into account is that resulting from the last population c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Transfers of charges and income between the Rhône department and the Lyon metropolitan authority

Article L3663-4

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Deliberative body of public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax system

Article L5211-6

Metropolises, urban communities, conurbation communities and communities of communes are administered by a deliberative body composed of representatives of the member communes appointed under the cond…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Employee information.

Article L3341-7

…yee's registration number in the national register for the identification of natural persons is the reference number for the employee's savings book. It may appear on individual account statements and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Notification procedure.

Article R1123-20

…ory provisions of this Title ;2° A declaration that the questionnaires and interviews comply with a reference methodology approved by the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 2: Declarations for the purposes of amending registration or cancellation

Article R123-263

…powers in the case of one of the companies mentioned in articles R. 123-252 to R. 123-259, and the reference of the legal announcement medium in which their appointment was published, as well as the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions.

Article R228-3

…indicating the activity of the company. d) The code indicating the main activity carried out, with reference to the French nomenclature of activities (NAF) or its European equivalent within the meani…

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