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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VIII A: Special provisions for sole traders covered by the status defined in Section 3 of Chapter VI of Title II of Book V

Article L681-1

Any application to open proceedings under Titles II to IV of this Book or over-indebtedness proceedings under Book VII of the Consumer Code in respect of a sole trader covered by the status defined in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors

Article R7345-2

…ext publication of the lists referred to in article L. 7343-4 and article L. 7343-24 respectively. IV-Any vacancy for any reason whatsoever, or loss of the capacity in respect of which a qualified per…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Technical and financial profit-sharing

Article A132-14

For the purpose of drawing up the account defined in Article A. 132-13, the share of the financial result to be entered as revenue in this account is equal to the sum of the following two elements :1.…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
14° : Tax reduction granted for cash subscriptions to the capital of companies and for subscriptions to shares in innovation investment funds (fonds communs de placement dans l'innovation)

Article 199 terdecies-0 AA

Article 199 terdecies-0 A applies under the same conditions and subject to the same penalties to cash subscriptions to the capital of socially useful companies mentioned in article L. 3332-17-1 du cod…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Administrative detention

Article L751-10

The non-negligible risk of leakage referred to in article L. 751-9 may, except in special circumstances, be regarded as established in the following cases:1° The foreign national has previously evaded…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: General provisions

Article 1680 A

Deductions made at the initiative of the tax authorities are made from an account opened by the taxpayer in an establishment authorised for this purpose, which may be: 1° A deposit account in a credit…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Exemptions

Article 749 A

Sont exonérés du droit d'enregistrement ou de la taxe de publicité foncière prévus à Article 746 shares of built-up property, groups of built-up properties or property complexes subject to the loi n°…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes III

Article Annexe III-12 (art. A322-43)

RIVER CLASSESCLASS I. EASYCLASS II. MODERATELY DIFFICULT(free passage)Regular course, regular waves, small eddies.Irregular course, irregular waves, medium eddies,small eddies and rapids.Simple obstac…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
14° : Tax reduction granted for cash subscriptions to the capital of companies and for subscriptions to shares in innovation investment funds (fonds communs de placement dans l'innovation)

Article 199 terdecies-0 A

I. 1° Taxpayers domiciled in France for tax purposes may benefit from a reduction in their income tax equal to 18% of payments made in respect of cash subscriptions made under the same conditions as t…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to groups with a parent undertaking whose registered office is outside the European Union

Article L356-12

In the case referred to in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 356-2, where it considers that the group supervision carried out by the supervisory authority of the parent undertaking whose head office…

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