French update: New withholding tax exemption case

April 03 2004

In a decision dated November 3 2003 (Conseil d'Etat, 244437, SARL Meridia France), the French Administrative Supreme Court had to decide whether the interest paid by a French company to a partner domiciled abroad as current account remuneration may benefit from the withholding tax exemption provided by section 131(4) of the French tax code

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