I. – Companies subject to corporation tax may benefit from a tax reduction equal to 25% of the amount of sums paid in respect of cash subscriptions made between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2024 to the capital of companies mentioned in the article 2 of law no. 86-897 of 1 August 1986 reforming the legal status of the press, subject to corporation tax under the conditions of ordinary law, publishing either:
1° One or more political and general information press publications within the meaning of article 4 of law no. 47-585 of 2 April 1947 relating to the status of companies grouping and distributing newspapers and periodical publications;
2° One or more online political and general information press services recognised under Article 1 of the aforementioned Law no. 86-897 of 1 August 1986;
3° One or more press publications or online press services devoted in large part to political and general information within the meaning of Article 39 bis A of this Code.
II. – The subscribing company must retain, for a period of five years from the date of the cash subscription, the securities that gave entitlement to the tax reduction.
III. – For the application of I, there must be no relationship of dependence, within the meaning of Article 39(12), between the subscribing company and the entity benefiting from the subscription.
IV. – The benefit of the tax reduction referred to in I is reserved for companies that are not themselves beneficiaries of subscriptions that have opened entitlement, in favour of their author, to this same tax reduction.
V. – The tax reduction is deducted from the corporation tax due by the company in respect of the financial year during which the cash subscriptions referred to in I were made.
Where the amount of the tax reduction exceeds the amount of tax due, the balance not deducted is neither refundable nor may it be carried forward.
VI. – If the condition set out in II is not met, the amount of the tax reduction is added to the corporation tax due for the financial year in which this condition is no longer met.
VII. – The benefit of the tax reduction mentioned in I of this article 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.
VIII. – A decree shall specify the procedures for applying this article, in particular the reporting obligations incumbent on companies.