Municipalities and their public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax authority may, by a deliberation taken under the conditions provided for in I of l’article 1639 A bis, exempt from business property tax for a period of seven years businesses existing on 1 January 2004 or created between that date and 31 December 2025, and meeting, during the reference period mentioned in article 1467 A, to the conditions set out in 1°, 3°, 4° and 5° of article 44 sexies-0 A.
The exemption applies to the entire portion due to each municipality or public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax system. It ceases to apply definitively from the year following the seventh anniversary of the creation of the business or, if earlier, from the second year following the period mentioned in the first paragraph during which the business no longer meets one of the conditions set out in 1°, 3°, 4° and 5° of Article 44 sexies-0 A.
The benefit of the exemption is subject to compliance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid.
To benefit from the exemption, taxpayers must apply for it within the time limits set out in Article 1477. This request must be sent, for each exempt establishment, to the tax department responsible for the establishment. Taxpayers shall declare, each year, under the conditions set out in article 1477, the items falling within the scope of the exemption.
When an establishment meets the conditions required to benefit from one of the exemptions set out in articles 1464 B, 1464 D,1464 F, 1464 G, 1465,1465 A, 1465 B, 1466 A and 1466 B and those of this article, the taxpayer must specify the regime under which he intends to place himself. This choice, which is irrevocable, must be exercised within the time limit set for filing, as the case may be, the annual declaration or the provisional declaration of the business property tax referred to in Article 1477.