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Article 795 B of the French General Tax Code

Free transfer duty is waived on State land and property assets that the State transfers, in full ownership, to a public land institution as part of operations to requalify run-down condominiums of national interest mentioned in Title IV of Book VII of the Construction and Housing Code.

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Article 796-0 ter of the French General Tax Code

The share of each brother or sister, whether single, widowed, divorced or legally separated, is exempt from death duties on the double condition: 1° That he is, at the time of the opening of the succession, over fifty years of age or suffering from an infirmity making it impossible for him to provide for the necessities of life by his work; 2° That he has been constantly domiciled with the…

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Article 796 of the French General Tax Code

I. – The estates of: 1° of servicemen of the French and allied armies who died under the flags during the war; 2° of servicemen who, either under the flags or after being sent home, will have died, within three years of the cessation of hostilities, of wounds received or diseases contracted during the war; 2° bis Of servicemen who died during their participation in an operation mentioned in 2°…

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Article 796 bis of the French General Tax Code

I. – Donations in cash received by a person who is the victim of an act of terrorism, within the meaning of I of Article 9 of Law no. 86-1020 of 9 September 1986 relating to the fight against terrorism, are exempt from gratuitous transfer duties. If the victim has died as a result of the act of terrorism, the exemption from gratuitous transfer duties applies, under the same conditions,…

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Article 797 of the French General Tax Code

I – Undeveloped properties and rights relating to these properties are exempt from death duties under the following conditions: 1° The properties in question are undivided within a cadastral parcel; 2° The total value of the properties in question is less than €5,000 when they consist of a single parcel and less than €10,000 when they consist of two contiguous parcels ; 3° The deceased’s right of ownership was not…

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Article 798 of the French General Tax Code

In declarations of transfer by death, heirs, donees or legatees, or parties to deeds recording a transfer inter vivos free of charge, must state whether the jewellery, gems, works of art or collectors’ items included in the transfer were the subject of an insurance contract against theft or fire in force on the day of the death or of the deed and, if so, indicate the date of the contract,…

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