The tax is due on the property or property rights owned on 1st January of the tax year, with the exception of property duly entered in the inventories of legal entities operating as property dealers or developer-builders. Where there is a chain of holdings, the tax is payable by the legal entity or entities which, in this chain, are closest to the property or property rights and which are not exempt pursuant to d or e of 3° of article 990 E. Any legal entity, body, trust or comparable institution interposed between the debtor or debtors of the tax and the immovable property or immovable property rights is jointly and severally liable for the payment of this tax.
A legal person, body, trust or comparable institution which, failing to comply with the undertaking provided for in d of 3° of Article 990 E, has come within the scope of the tax provided for in Article 990 D, may exempt itself from the tax from the year in which it provides the tax authorities with the information referred to in the said d of 3° and makes a new undertaking to provide it subsequently at its request.
Taxpayers must declare by 15 May each year at the latest the location, composition and value of the properties and property rights in question. This declaration, accompanied by payment of the tax, is filed at the place set by order of the minister responsible for the budget.
The tax is collected according to the rules and under the penalties and guarantees applicable to registration duties. The provisions of article 223 quinquies A are also applicable to the tax.
In the event of a transfer of the property by a legal person, body, trust or comparable institution not established in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area which has entered into an administrative assistance agreement with France to combat tax evasion and avoidance and a mutual assistance agreement on tax collection, the representative referred to in IV of Article 244 bis A is responsible for payment of the tax remaining due at that date.