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Article 1882 of the French General Tax Code

The transfer of ownership of businesses or clienteles is sufficiently established, for the claim and prosecution of registration duties and fines, by the acts or writings which reveal the existence of the transfer or which are intended to make it public, as well as by the entry in the tax roll of the name of the new possessor, and of the payments made by virtue of these rolls, in the absence of proof to the contrary.

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Article 1882

La mutation de propriété des fonds de commerce ou des clientèles est suffisamment établie, pour la demande et la poursuite des droits d’enregistrement et des amendes, par les actes ou écrits qui révèlent l’existence de la mutation ou qui sont destinés à la rendre publique, ainsi que par l’inscription au rôle des contributions du nom du nouveau possesseur, et des paiements faits en vertu de ces rôles, sauf preuve contraire.

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