1. Are liable, independently of the tax penalties enacted by this code, to a fine of €4,500 and five years’ imprisonment:
1° Any business agent, expert or any other person whose profession, either on their own behalf or as a manager or salaried agent of any company, association, group or enterprise, is to keep the accounting records of several clients and who is found to have drawn up or helped to draw up false balance sheets, inventories, accounts and documents of any kind whatsoever, produced for the determination of the bases of the taxes due by the said clients;
2° Anyone who, directly or indirectly receiving income abroad, has not mentioned it separately in their tax return in accordance with the requirements of 2 of the articles 170 and 173, where concealment is established;
3° Anyone found to have cashed coupons belonging to third parties in his name with a view to evading the application of tax to the latter ;
4° Anyone who, with a view to securing for themselves, in relation to direct taxes, or assimilated taxes, the benefit of tax relief of any kind whatsoever, produces false documents or documents recognised as inaccurate;
5° Anyone who publishes or causes to be published, by any means other than that provided for in article L 111 of the Book of Tax Procedures, all or part of the lists of taxpayers referred to in the said article.
2. The persons referred to in 1° and 3° of 1 shall also, where applicable, be held jointly and severally liable with their clients for the payment of sums, both in principal and in penalties and fines, the ascertainment of which may have been compromised by their manoeuvres.
3. Anyone found to have knowingly entered expenses incurred by a company under an incorrect heading with a view to concealing taxable profits or income in the name of the company itself or of a third party shall be liable to the penalties provided for in 1.
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