Sums allocated in accordance with Article L. 3323-2 are exempt from income tax.
Income from sums allocated by way of profit-sharing and used for the same purpose is exempt under the same conditions. They are then subject to the same lock-in period as these sums and are definitively exempt on expiry of the corresponding lock-in period.
After expiry of the period of unavailability, the exemption is however maintained for income from sums used to acquire shares in the company or paid to investment bodies outside the company such as those listed in 1° of article L. 3323-2, as long as the employees and, where applicable, the beneficiaries referred to in the second paragraph of article L. 3323-6 and in the third paragraph of article L. 3324-2 do not request delivery of the rights constituted for their benefit.