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Article 1711 of the French General Tax Code

Public officers who, under the terms of articles 1705 and 1706, have made, for the parties, the advance payment of registration duties or land registration tax may pursue payment in accordance with the provisions of the loi du 24 décembre 1897 relative au recouvrement des frais dus aux notaires, avoués et huissiers.

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Article 1712 of the French General Tax Code

The duties of civil and judicial deeds involving the transfer of ownership or usufruct of movable or immovable property, shall be borne by the new possessors, and those of all other deeds shall be borne by the parties to whom the deeds benefit, where, in these various cases, no provisions to the contrary have been stipulated in the deeds.

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Article 1715 of the French General Tax Code

The payment of death transfer duties may be made in Treasury securities in the proportion set respectively by the board of directors of the autonomous fund for the management of national defence bonds, the industrial exploitation of tobacco and the amortisation of the public debt and by order of the Minister for the Economy and Finance. The redemption value of these various securities is set by decree. The list of…

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Article 1716 A of the French General Tax Code

When their author has acquired, pursuant to the loi n° 78-1 du 2 janvier 1978 relative à l’indemnisation des rapatriés d’outre-mer dépossédés de leurs biens et de la loi n° 87-549 du 16 juillet 1987 modifiée relative au règlement de l’indemnisation des rapatriés, une créance sur l’Etat, les droits de mutation par décès exigibles sur la créance revenir à chaque ayant droit peuvent ^etre acquittés par imputation sur cette créance….

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Article 1716 bis of the French General Tax Code

I. – Free transfer duties, real estate wealth tax and partition duty may be paid by handing over works of art, books, collectors’ items, documents, of high artistic or historical value, or real estate located in the areas of intervention of the Conservatoire de l’espace littoral et des rivages lacustres defined in Article L. 322-1 of the Environment Code, whose location and ecological or landscape interest justify conservation in their…

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Article 1717 of the French General Tax Code

I. – Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 1701, payment of registration duties and land registration tax may be split up or deferred in accordance with the terms and conditions laid down by decree (1). II. – (No longer applicable). III. – (Repealed).

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Article 1717 bis of the French General Tax Code

When they are presented for the formality of registration or the merged formality, within the period provided for in articles 635 and 647 III, deeds recording the formation of commercial companies are provisionally registered free of charge. Subject to the provisions of article 1717, the duties and taxes normally due are payable, at the latest, on expiry of a period of three months from the date of these acts.

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Article 1722 bis of the French General Tax Code

In the case provided for in articles 832 and 924-3 of the Civil Code, where the beneficiary of the gift or legacy has time to pay the balances or rewards owed to his co-heirs, the payment of the death duties payable by the latter may be deferred under the conditions laid down by decree (1), up to the fraction corresponding to the amount of the balances or rewards payable at…

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Article 1722 ter of the French General Tax Code

The methods of payment of death transfer duties relating to securities, sums, values or assets of any kind which are unavailable outside France as a result of measures taken by a foreign government shall be laid down by decree (1). These provisions shall apply to estates opened and not declared before the publication of Act No. 63-254 of 15 March 1963.

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