For the application of the provisions of 18° of Article L. 4425-29, the Corsican local authority shall depreciate its fixed assets, including those made available or allocated:
1° Intangible;
> Tangible
2° Tangible, with the exception of road networks and installations for which depreciation is optional.
This depreciation does not apply to fixed assets owned by the Corsican local authority and which are handed over on assignment or made available, nor to land, with the exception of mineral deposits, nor to collections and works of art.
The depreciation of these fixed assets does not apply to the Corsican local authority and which are handed over on assignment or made available, nor to land, with the exception of mineral deposits, nor to collections and works of art.
Depreciation of these assets is calculated on the basis of their gross value, less their residual value. The straight-line method is applied.
However, the Corsican local authority may, by deliberation, adopt a declining balance or variable depreciation method.
The depreciation periods for fixed assets, which must correspond to their probable useful life, are set for each asset or each category of asset by the deliberative assembly, with the exception of:
study costs and insertion costs not followed by completion, depreciated over a maximum period of five years;
> – research and development costs, depreciated over a maximum period of five years
research and development costs, amortised over a maximum period of five years if the project is successful and immediately in full if it is unsuccessful;
-patents, amortised over a maximum period of five years if the project is successful and immediately in full if it unsuccessful
patents, amortised over the shorter of the duration of the privilege from which they benefit or the actual duration of their use;
-equipment subsidies paid out, amortised over the shorter of the duration of the privilege or the actual duration of their use
-capital grants paid, depreciated over a maximum period of five years when the grant finances movable property, equipment or studies, thirty years when it finances real estate or installations and forty years when it finances infrastructure projects of national interest; investment aid to companies not falling into any of these categories is depreciated over a maximum period of five years.
Any depreciation plan started must be continued to completion, unless the asset is sold, assigned, made available, reformed or destroyed. The depreciation schedule is amended following the recognition or reversal of a depreciation or if there is a significant change in the conditions of use of the asset. The beneficiary of the provision or allocation continues to depreciate the asset in accordance with the initial depreciation schedule or in accordance with its own rules, as defined by this article.
The Corsican Assembly may set the depreciation schedule for the asset.
The Corsican Assembly may set a unit threshold below which fixed assets of little value or which are consumed very quickly are depreciated over one year. The corresponding decision is sent to the public accountant and may not be modified during the same financial year.
The Assembly of Corsica may instruct the authorising officer to determine the depreciation period for an asset within the minimum and maximum periods that it has set for the category to which the asset belongs.