Chapter 1: Registration duties and land registration tax

Transfers by mutual agreement of shares in joint farming groups and limited liability agricultural holdings mentioned in 5° of Article 8 are registered at the fixed duty of 125 €. Disposals by mutual agreement of shares in non-trading companies with a predominantly agricultural purpose, which have been in existence for at least three years prior to the disposal, are registered at a fixed duty of €125.

Transfers of shares in agricultural landholding groups, rural landholding groups and forestry groups representing contributions of undivided assets are subject to 2.50% registration duty when they occur between the contributors of the said assets, their surviving spouses or their beneficiaries free of charge, provided that these contributors were related or allied up to and including the fourth degree (1). (1) For the application of these provisions in the French overseas…

Transfers of units in venture capital mutual funds, specialised professional funds covered by article L. 214-37 of the Monetary and Financial Code as it stood prior to ordonnance no. 2013-676 of 25 July 2013 amending the legal framework for asset management, professional private equity funds and free partnership companies do not entail the payment of any registration duty.

Transfers of units or shares in real estate collective investment undertakings and professional real estate collective investment undertakings are exempt from registration duty except: a) Where the acquirer holds or will hold following his acquisition more than 10% of the units or shares of the real estate collective investment undertaking or professional real estate collective investment undertaking directly or through his spouse or their ascendants or descendants or their brothers…