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Showing 941950 of 17413 articles for Art. n° 16-23.120 et n° 16-10.583

French General Tax CodeIn force
II ter: Consolidation within a group of the payment of value added tax and similar taxes

Article 1693 ter

…ks, caisses and companies mentioned in that same paragraph. It only concerns groups whose members meet the following cumulative conditions: a) They fall into the categories mentioned in I of Article 1…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Payment by bank transfer of final levies, withholding taxes and the annual contribution on rental income

Article 1681 quinquies

1. The levies provided for in Articles 117 quater and 125 A and the levies established, liquidated and recovered according to the same rules, as well as the withholding tax provided for in Article 119…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Transitional provisions

Article L2333-16

…January 2009, by that provided for by article L. 2333-6.B. - For each commune, a reference rate is determined.1. This reference rate is equal:a) To 35 € per square metre for communes with more than 10…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Urban solidarity and social cohesion grant.

Article L2334-16

…hirds of municipalities with 10,000 inhabitants or more, classified, each year, according to a synthetic index of resources and charges defined in article L. 2334-17;2° The first tenth of municipaliti…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Allocation for registering applications and issuing secure documents

Article L2335-16

…and national identity card applications registered during the previous year, according to a scale set by decree. An increase in the grant is allocated to municipalities for each station registered, o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article L2511-16

…Paris or the inhabitants of several arrondissements, or that do not have a national vocation. Completion of the facilities is subject to a decision by the municipal council or the Paris council taken…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L2411-16

Where the syndicate commission has not been formed, the change of use or the sale of all or part of the property of the section is decided by the municipal council ruling by an absolute majority of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L2421-16

…e right of enjoyment, if he or she held such a right, without prejudice to the total or partial offsetting of that compensation against the price of the lease. If the interested party has already rece…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Responsibilities.

Article L2541-16

The municipal council has the right to submit to the representative of the State in the department wishes on matters concerning the municipality or certain parts of the municipality as well as complai…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Water and sanitation

Article L2564-16

For the application to Mayotte of the third paragraph of Article L. 2224-7-1, the reference to 2013 is replaced by the reference to 2015.

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