The following are exempt from value added tax:
1° Banking and financial transactions:
a.The granting and negotiation of loans, the management of loans carried out by the person who granted them, securities lending carried out under the conditions provided for in articles L. 211-22 to L. 211-26 of the Monetary and Financial Code and repos carried out under the conditions provided for in articles L. 211-27 to L. 211-34 of the same code;
b. The negotiation and assumption of commitments, sureties and other securities and guarantees as well as the management of credit guarantees carried out by the person who granted the credit;
c. Transactions, including negotiation, relating to deposits of funds, current accounts, payments, transfers, claims, cheques and other negotiable instruments, with the exception of debt collection;
d. Transactions, including negotiation, involving currencies, banknotes and currencies that are legal means of payment with the exception of collector coins and banknotes;
e. Transactions, other than those of custody and management relating to shares, units in companies or associations, bonds and other securities, with the exception of securities representing goods and interest shares the possession of which ensures in law or in fact the allocation in ownership or in enjoyment of an immovable property or a fraction of an immovable property;
f. The management of undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities referred to in Article 1(2) of Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) and other undertakings for collective investment with similar characteristics. The list of these undertakings is set by decree. It includes, in particular, undertakings covered by paragraphs 1, 2 and 6 of sub-section 2, sub-paragraph 1 of paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 of sub-section 3 or sub-section 4 of Section 2 of Chapter IV of Title I of Book II of the Monetary and Financial Code;
g. Transactions relating to gold, other than gold for industrial use, when carried out by credit institutions, investment service providers, money changers, discounters and remisiers, or by any other person who makes this their principal activity;
2° Insurance and reinsurance transactions as well as services relating to these transactions carried out by insurance brokers and intermediaries;
3° Deliveries at their official value of revenue stamps and postage stamps with current or franking value in France.