I. – In accordance with the provisions of IV of Article L. 212-3 of the Monetary and Financial Code, where they do not prove that they have taken all necessary steps to ensure that the provisions of the aforementioned article are effectively applied, the managers, the chairman of the board of directors or the management board of the issuing company are, for the purposes of applying death duties, presumed, in…
Assets held in an account held abroad, within the meaning of the second paragraph of article 1649 A, or in a capitalisation contract or an investment of the same nature subscribed abroad, within the meaning of article 1649 AA, and whose origin and acquisition methods have not been justified under the procedure provided for in Article L. 23 C of the Book of Tax Procedures are deemed to constitute, in…
The waiver of the action in reduction provided for in Article 929 of the Civil Code is not subject to transfer duties free of charge.
Deeds containing either the declaration by the donee or his representatives, or the judicial recognition of a manual gift, are subject to transfer duties for no consideration. These duties are calculated on the value of the manual gift on the day of its declaration or registration, or on its value on the day of the donation if this is higher. The rate and allowances applicable are those in force on…
The capital payments provided for by Article 373-2-3 of the French Civil Code are only subject to transfer duties for the fraction exceeding €2,700 per year remaining until the beneficiary reaches majority.
I.-Sums, annuities or values of any kind owed directly or indirectly by an insurer, as a result of the death of the policyholder, give rise to death duties according to the degree of kinship existing between the beneficiary free of charge and the policyholder up to the fraction of the premiums paid after the age of seventy. By exception, sums, annuities or values of any kind owed directly or indirectly…
Free transfer duties do not apply to donations taken into account to determine the tax advantage provided for in article 978.
For gratuitous transfers of movable property, other than listed securities and term debts, the value serving as the basis for the tax is determined by the detailed and estimated declaration of the parties, without distraction of charges, except as stated in articles 764, 767 to 770 and 773 to 776 bis.
For French and foreign securities of any kind admitted to trading on a regulated market, the capital serving as a basis for the liquidation and payment of transfer duties free of charge is determined by the average price on the day of the transfer or, for inheritances, by the average of the last thirty prices preceding the transfer.
For term claims, the duty is levied on the capital expressed in the deed and which is the subject of the deed. However, gratuitous transfer duties are liquidated on the basis of the estimated declaration of the parties with regard to claims whose debtor is in a state of bankruptcy, safeguard proceedings, receivership or judicial liquidation or insolvency at the time of the deed of gift or the opening of…
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