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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Manual donations

Article 757

…is declared or registered. The same rule applies when the donee discloses a manual donation to the tax authorities. These provisions do not apply to manual donations made to charitable organisations…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Personal property

Article 758

For gratuitous transfers of movable property, other than listed securities and term debts, the value serving as the basis for the tax is determined by the detailed and estimated declaration of the par…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Movable property

Article 764

…eclaration of the parties; however, for movable property, and without the administration having to justify its existence, the taxable value may not be less than 5% of all the other movable and immovab…

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2°: Debts of the deceased

Article 773

…nce at that time, in the form and according to the rules determined in article L. 20 of the Book of Tax Procedures; 2° Debts granted by the deceased in favour of his heirs or interposed persons. The p…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
6°: Rent and occupancy allowances

Article 775 quater

The amount of rent or occupancy allowances actually reimbursed by the estate to the surviving spouse or partner bound to the deceased by a civil solidarity pact pursuant to articles 515-6 and 763 of t…

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A: Respective scope of application of registration duty and land registration tax

Article 665

…ject to registration duties.These decisions and deeds are exempt from payment of the land publicity tax at the time of the formality of publication or registration.

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B: Basis of assessment and settlement

Article 670

Where a deed contains two provisions which are tariffed differently but which, because of their correlation, are not such as to give rise to a plurality of duties or taxes, the provision which serves…

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I: General provisions

Article 681

The rates of the land registration tax are applicable for the liquidation of registration duties due on the basis of provisions subject to land registration in judicial decisions and deeds excluded fr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
d: Special schemes for agriculture

Article 707 bis

…tuted by articles L. 412-1 to L. 412-13 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, relating to the status of tenant farming and sharecropping, or by article L. 462-21 of the same code, relating to farm l…

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d: Special schemes for agriculture

Article 708

…cles L. 124-3 and L. 124-4 of the rural and maritime fishing code are exempt from land registration tax or, where applicable, registration duty. However, the balancing payments and capital gains resul…

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