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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Judicial liquidation and professional recovery.

Article R644-4

…strar to the debtor and the liquidator and forwarded by the latter to the public prosecutor. It may not be appealed.Note of the decision is made in the registers provided for in the first four paragra…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Judicial liquidation and professional recovery.

Article R644-2

…realisation of assets is filed at the registry office where any interested party may examine it. A notice of this filing is published in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales and…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Judicial liquidation and professional recovery.

Article R644-3

…bution shall be subject to the publicity measures provided for in Article R. 644-2. The court clerk notifies the interested creditors of the decision. The latter may lodge an appeal within the time li…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Withholding taxes and levies on income from securities

Article 1673 bis

The withholding tax payable under the provisions of Article 115 quinquies is declared and paid to the Treasury by the company no later than the fifteenth day of the fourth month following the end of t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Withholding taxes and levies on income from securities

Article 1672

…meets the following conditions:a) It is established in a Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area which has entered into an administ…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Withholding taxes and levies on income from securities

Article 1673

La retenue à la source afférente aux revenus de capitaux mobiliers entrant dans les prévisions des articles 118, 119 et 1678 bis, and referred to in 1 of the articles 119 bis and 1672 is declared and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Withholding taxes and levies on income from securities

Article 1672 bis

…1° of Article 118 and relating to securities issued on or after 1 January 1965. These provisions do not apply in the event of the redemption of bonus shares. 2. Insofar as they are not contrary to the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Tourist tax and flat-rate tourist tax

Article L2333-34-1

…2333-34 within the prescribed period will result in the application of a fine of up to €12,500 but not less than €750. Omissions or inaccuracies in the same declaration will result in the application…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Tourist tax and flat-rate tourist tax

Article L2333-30

…ristics, marinas 0.20The rate adopted by the commune for one of the categories of accommodation may not exceed the rate adopted for a higher category of the same nature.The rate limits mentioned in th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Tourist tax and flat-rate tourist tax

Article L2333-40

The flat-rate tourist tax is payable by landlords, hoteliers and owners who accommodate the persons mentioned in article L. 2333-29 for consideration as well as by other intermediaries when these pers…

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