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French General Tax CodeIn force
E: Assignment of patents

Article 731

Patent assignments are registered at a fixed duty of €125..

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b : Combined registration and land registration formalities

Article 657

The merged formality takes place at the service responsible for land registration in the location of the property. In Mayotte, the merged formality takes place at the real estate property conservation…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
G: Other movable property

Article 733

The minutes recording a public auction of intangible movable property or any other sale of the same property made with publicity and competition shall be subject to a registration duty of 1.20%, where…

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A: Normal system

Article 683

…Civil and judicial deeds transferring ownership or usufruct of immovable property for valuable consideration are subject to land registration tax or registration duty at the rate provided for in Art…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Normal system

Article 684

…red have been the subject of an auction, either by judicial authority or voluntarily, with the admission of foreigners, the taxes payable may not be calculated on a sum lower than the auction price, w…

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3: Manual donations

Article 757

…esentatives, or the judicial recognition of a manual gift, are subject to transfer duties for no consideration. These duties are calculated on the value of the manual gift on the day of its declaratio…

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c: Special provisions for gifts

Article 790 G

…mentioned in I must be declared or registered by the donee at the tax department of his place of residence within one month of the date of the gift.V. - (Repealed)

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c: Special provisions for gifts

Article 790 F

For the purposes of collecting inter vivos transfer duties, an allowance of €80,724 is made on the share of the partner bound to the donor by a civil solidarity pact.The benefit of this allowance is c…

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2: Special provisions relating to inheritance

Article 801

…names, date and place of birth of each of the heirs, legatees or donees. If the birth took place outside France, proof of this date must also be provided before the declaration is registered, failing…

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3°: Estimated statement

Article 851

In all cases where duties are levied on the basis of an estimated declaration by the parties, the declaration and the estimate must be detailed. A declaration of this nature shall, before the executio…

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