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Showing 37213730 of 12278 articles for Art. US Estate Tax — QDOT

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Pension

Article L211-28

…tion of the transaction, of :1. The detachment of a dividend entitlement, giving entitlement to the tax credit provided for in b of 1 of article 220 of the General Tax Code;2. The payment of interest…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Right of communication by the financial authorities.

Article 64 A

…d funds and bodies managing the unemployment insurance scheme, invoke professional secrecy against customs officers with at least the rank of controller who, in order to assess taxes instituted by exi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Award conditions

Article R5424-71

I.- For the application of the condition of previous activity income mentioned in 3° of article R. 5424-70, the income declared by the self-employed person to the tax authorities for income tax purpos…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 3

Article R421-47

The guarantee fund may use the excess of its resources over its current expenditure to acquire the financial instruments referred to in article L. 211-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code and real est…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Projects subject to authorisation.

Article L752-2

…within the confines of airports, as well as parts of the public property allocated to railway and bus stations located in city centres with a maximum surface area of 2,500 square metres, are not subj…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Referral to the commission de surendettement des particuliers (household over-indebtedness commission)

Article R721-7

…tors or, in the case of legal entities, their name and registered office. It shall specify the serious and duly justified reasons put forward in support of the application. Attached to the request is…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Privileges.

Article L327-3

…erests of policyholders and beneficiaries are likely to be compromised in the near future, the real estate forming part of the undertaking's assets may be mortgaged at the request of the Autorité de c…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of acceptance of the succession up to the amount of the net assets.

Article 792-1

…prohibits any enforcement proceedings and any new registration of security by the creditors of the estate, relating to both movable and immovable property. However, for the application of the provisi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Exceptions to the rule that gifts inter vivos are irrevocable.

Article 958

…sed on the object of the donation, provided that the whole is prior to the publication, in the real estate file, of the request for revocation. In the event of revocation, the donee will be ordered to…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Liquidation and partition of the community.

Article 1475

After all deductions have been made from the estate, the surplus is divided equally between the spouses. If a community property is an annex to another property owned by one of the spouses, or if it i…

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