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Article 98 of the French General Tax Code

The administration may request from the interested parties any information likely to justify the accuracy of the figures declared and, in particular, any information enabling the size of the customer base to be assessed. It may demand to see the journal book and the document provided for in Article 99 and any supporting documents. If the information and supporting documents provided are deemed to be insufficient, the tax authorities determine…

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Article 99 of the French General Tax Code

Taxpayers who are subject to the mandatory controlled declaration system or who wish to be taxed under this system are required to keep a day-to-day ledger showing details of their professional income and expenditure. The ledger kept by taxpayers who are not members of an approved management association includes, regardless of the profession practised, the identity declared by the client as well as the amount, date and form of payment…

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Article 100 of the French General Tax Code

Public or ministerial officers are obligatorily subject to the controlled declaration regime in respect of profits from their office or position. As regards profits or income from a related or ancillary activity or from another source, they are subject to the provisions of article 95. They must, at the request of the administration, produce their books, registers, receipts, expenditure or accounting documents in support of the statements in their declaration….

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Article 100 bis of the French General Tax Code

I – Taxable profits from literary, scientific or artistic production as well as those from the practice of sport may, at the request of taxpayers subject to the controlled declaration regime, be determined by subtracting, from the average revenue for the year of taxation and the two previous years, the average expenditure for these same years. Taxpayers who adopt this method of assessment for any year are obligatorily subject to…

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Article 102 ter of the French General Tax Code

1. The taxable profit of taxpayers who receive non-trading income whose amount excluding tax for the previous calendar year or the penultimate year, adjusted if necessary in proportion to the time worked during the reference year, does not exceed €77,700 is equal to the gross amount of annual receipts less a flat-rate allowance of 34%. This allowance may not be less than €305. Capital gains or losses arising from the…

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Article 103 of the French General Tax Code

Subject to the provisions of Article 218 bis, the taxable profits of the partners in name, the general partners and the members of the companies referred to in articles 8 and 8 ter, shall be determined under the conditions set out in article 60, second paragraph, and in accordance with the provisions of articles 96 to 100a as well as Article 102 ter for the sole shareholder of a limited…

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Article 108 of the French General Tax Code

The provisions of articles 109 to 117 set out the rules for determining income distributed by : 1° Legal entities subject to the tax provided for in Chapter II of this Title; 2° Legal entities and joint ventures which have voluntarily placed themselves under the same tax regime by exercising the option provided for in 3 of article 206. They apply, even in the absence of the option referred to…

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Article 109 of the French General Tax Code

1. The following are deemed to be distributed income: 1° All profits or income that is not placed in reserves or incorporated into capital; 2° All sums or securities made available to members, shareholders or unit holders and not deducted from profits. Taxable amounts are determined for each period used to calculate corporation tax by comparing the closing balance sheets for the said period and the previous period in accordance…

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Article 110 of the French General Tax Code

For the application of 1° of 1 of Article 109 profits are understood to be those that have been retained for the basis of assessment for corporation tax. However, these profits are increased by those that are legally exempt from said tax, including income deductible from net profit under I of Article 216, as well as profits made by the company in businesses operated outside France, less amounts paid in…

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Article 111 of the French General Tax Code

In particular, the following are considered as distributed income: a. In the absence of proof to the contrary, sums made available to members directly or through interposed persons or companies by way of advances, loans or deposits. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary, when these sums are repaid after 1 January 1960, to the legal entity that had paid them, the fraction of tax to which their allocation had given…

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