I. – Natural or legal persons carrying on a commercial, industrial, craft, agricultural or liberal profession activity are authorised to revalue their non-depreciable fixed assets, including equity interests, appearing in the balance sheet for the first financial year ending on 31 December 1976.
This revaluation may be carried out either in the accounts for the first financial year, ending on 31 December 1976, or in those for the three following financial years.
The revaluation is compulsory for companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market and for companies in which a company whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market has a holding falling within the scope of the preparation of consolidated accounts.
Non-depreciable fixed assets are revalued, according to the usefulness that their possession presents for the company on 31 December 1976, at their estimated cost of acquisition or reconstitution in their current state.
II. – The revaluation surplus is entered, free of tax, in a revaluation reserve on the liabilities side of the balance sheet. This reserve is not available for distribution.
III. – The capital gain or loss on the disposal of non-depreciable fixed assets is, for tax purposes, calculated on the basis of their non-revalued value.
IV. – A decree of the Conseil d’Etat, issued after consultation with the Autorité des normes comptables, sets out the conditions for application of this article, in particular the revaluation techniques, and the nature of the obligations incumbent on companies. It shall adapt the provisions of I to III to the case of the liberal professions.
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