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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Provisions common to inheritances and gifts

Article 786

…Code, as well as to those made in favour of :1° Children from a first marriage of the adopter's spouse;2° Wards of the State, the Nation or the Republic as well as orphans of a parent who died for Fr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Provisions common to inheritances and gifts

Article 787 C

…vable, tangible or intangible assets allocated to the operation of a sole proprietorship with an industrial, commercial, craft, agricultural or liberal activity transferred by death or inter vivos are…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Special provisions for gifts

Article 791

The rate of land registration tax is reduced to 0.60% for inter vivos transfers free of charge. The value to be used for the tax base may not be less, where applicable, than that used as the basis for…

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D: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 797 A

Payments made by a transferor to a company under the conditions set out in articles L. 23-11-1 to L. 23-11-4 of the French Commercial Code.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XI: Miscellaneous deeds

Article 846

Receipts or assignments of a sum equivalent to three years' unpaid rent or lease payments, with the exception of receipts or assignments relating to the deeds provided for in article 1048 ter.

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XI: Miscellaneous deeds

Article 846 bis

Powers of attorney, mortgage releases and notarial deeds other than those recording usucapion are subject to a fixed land registration tax or, where applicable, a fixed registration fee of €25. The ra…

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D: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 795 A

…ng companies which own and manage the property mentioned in the first paragraph and whose income is taxed as property income. These companies must be set up solely between related persons in the direc…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 796 bis

…aw no. 86-1020 of 9 September 1986 relating to the fight against terrorism, are exempt from gratuitous transfer duties. If the victim has died as a result of the act of terrorism, the exemption from g…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Special provisions relating to inheritance

Article 800

…a detailed declaration.The following are exempt:1° The successors in direct line, the surviving spouse and the partner bound by a civil solidarity pact where the gross assets of the succession are le…

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1°: Public acts

Article 854

It is forbidden for any notary or court clerk to receive any deed in deposit without drawing up a record of the deposit. Wills deposited with notaries by testators are excepted.

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