1 The net amount of short-term capital gains may be divided equally between the year in which they are realised and the following two years.
It refers to the excess of these capital gains over capital losses of the same nature that were actually incurred during the same financial year.
These provisions do not apply to net short-term capital gains realised by companies subject to corporation tax during financial years commencing on or after 1 January 1987.
1a By way of derogation from the provisions of 1, the reintegration into taxable profits of the net amount of short-term capital gains realised during conversion operations by companies that have obtained the approval provided for in article 1465 may be spread over ten years, without the sum attached to the profits for each year being less than one tenth of that amount.
1 ter By way of derogation from the provisions of 1, the net short-term capital gain relating to depreciable assets, realised following the receipt of insurance compensation or the expropriation of buildings included in the assets, may be spread, in equal fractions, over several financial years starting from the one following the realisation of the capital gain.
Each fraction is equal to the ratio of the amount of this net capital gain, within the limit of the overall amount of the net short-term capital gain for the financial year in which it is realised, to the average depreciation period already applied to the destroyed or expropriated assets, weighted according to the acquisition price of these assets and limited to fifteen years.
1 quater (Repealed).
1 quinquies The profit realised on the repurchase by its debtor of a claim linked to a medium and long-term debt with a credit institution or finance company for a price lower than its nominal amount may be distributed, for its part corresponding to the difference between the discounting of the sum of the capital and interest remaining due at the date of repurchase, discounted at a rate equal to the constant maturity rate whose maturity is closest to the period remaining from the repurchase date to the date of each maturity, and the repurchase price of the debt, in equal fractions, over the five financial years following the repurchase. The fraction of the profit taken into account in taxable income is increased by an amount equal to the product of this fraction multiplied by one and a half times the rate of late payment interest provided for in Article 1727.
The first paragraph does not apply to credit institutions, finance companies or repurchases where the debtor and creditor are related companies within the meaning of 12 of article 39. However, in the latter case, where the claim has been acquired by the creditor from a person with whom it is not related within the meaning of Article 39(12), the first paragraph remains applicable, under the same conditions, to the extent of the fraction of the profit recorded by the debtor which does not exceed the difference between the discounted value of the claim and its acquisition price by the creditor.
These provisions are applicable on the twofold condition that the company’s share capital at the close of the financial year in which the repurchase takes place is higher than that at the start of the same financial year and that the ratio between the amount of medium- and long-term debt and the amount formed by the total gross assets calculated at the close of the financial year in which the repurchase takes place is at least 10% lower than this same ratio calculated at the start of the same financial year. For the purpose of calculating this ratio at the end of the financial year, the gross assets are reduced by the accounting loss for the financial year.
These provisions cease to apply when, at the end of one of the five financial years following that of the repurchase of the claim, this same ratio is higher than that recorded at the start of the repurchase financial year. In this case, the fractions of profit not yet taxed are included in the taxable profit for the financial year in which the excess occurred, under the conditions set out in the last sentence of the first paragraph.
2 In the event of the disposal or total cessation of a business, the capital gains or profits, increased under the conditions of 1 quinquies, the taxation of which has been deferred pursuant to the foregoing provisions, are brought back into the taxable profit for the financial year ended at the time of this operation, subject to the provisions of articles 41 and 210 A to 210 C.
Subject to the provisions of the third paragraph of 1, the provisions of the first paragraph do not apply in the event of the contribution of a sole proprietorship to a company under the conditions provided for in Article 151 octies if the company benefiting from the transfer undertakes in the transfer deed to reintegrate short-term capital gains into its results as the transferring company should have done.
2 bis. The capital loss resulting from the sale, less than two years after their issue, of equity securities acquired as consideration for a contribution made and whose actual value on the date of their issue is less than their book value, is not deductible, up to the amount resulting from the difference between the book value of the said securities and their actual value on the date of their issue.
3 Where applicable, the excess of short-term capital losses recognised during a financial year is deducted from the profits for that financial year.
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