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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 A

…f accounts of any kind as well as the renting of safes (1).Natural persons, associations, companies not having a commercial form, domiciled or established in France, are required to declare, at the sa…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 AE

…information and the subject-matter expertise and understanding necessary to provide such services, knows or could reasonably be expected to know that he has undertaken to provide, directly or through…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1640 E

…system, the reference rate of council tax, property tax on built-up properties and property tax on non-built-up properties relating to 2016 is equal to the sum:a) On the one hand, the communal rate f…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Retail purchase of ferrous and non-ferrous metals

Article 1649 bis

Any natural or legal person who habitually engages in the retail purchase of ferrous and non-ferrous metals is required to submit, before 31 January each year, to the departmental directorate of publi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1640 D

Municipalities that were not members of a public inter-municipal cooperation establishment with its own tax status on 1 January 2011 and that join a public inter-municipal cooperation establishment wi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Business property tax rebate

Article 1647 bis

…reduction in the base resulting from a change in the assessment rules decided by the legislator has no impact on the amount of the tax relief.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II. Declarations made by insurance companies, provident institutions, associations and mutual societies

Article 1649 ter

…utions and organisations mentioned in I also declare each year in respect of these contracts:1° For non-redeemable life insurance contracts taken out since 20 November 1991, the cumulative amount of p…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 AA

…this paragraph shall be laid down by decree (1). Payments made abroad or from abroad via contracts not declared under the conditions provided for in the first paragraph constitute taxable income, in…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Departmental fund

Article 1648 A

…ocation, to which the rate of change provided for 2017 in V of Article 33 of the aforementioned Act no. 2016-1917 of 29 December 2016 is applied, is reduced by applying the rate provided for 2018 in t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
0Ic : Declaration of payments made for advertising by billboards, posters and signs

Article 1649 B

Persons making payments of any kind under the contracts referred to in

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