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Article 63 of the French General Tax Code

For the purposes of income tax, profits from farming are deemed to be the income that the farming of rural property provides either to farmers, sharecroppers or to the farming owners themselves. These profits include in particular those from forestry production, even if the owners limit themselves to selling standing timber cuts. They also include the proceeds from the exploitation of mushroom beds in underground galleries and those from beekeeping,…

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Article 64 bis of the French General Tax Code

I.-Subject to articles 76 and 76 A, the taxable profit of farmers who are not subject to the tax system defined in article 69 is determined in application of the present article. The taxable profit, before taking into account capital gains or losses from the disposal of assets allocated to the farm, is equal to the average revenue excluding tax for the tax year and the two previous years, less…

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Article 69 of the French General Tax Code

I. When the average income of a farmer, for all of his farms, exceeds €91,900, excluding tax, over three consecutive years, the person concerned is compulsorily taxed according to a real system of taxation from the taxation of income for the first year following the three-year period in question. II. A simplified tax regime applies to small and medium-sized farmers subject to income tax: a. By option, to farmers normally…

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Article 69 C of the French General Tax Code

Persons who carry out commercial import, sale, commission and brokerage operations involving live butchery and charcuterie animals, as well as those who carry out commercial purchase operations involving butchery and charcuterie animals, are subject to the system of taxation based on actual profits for the profits they make, either personally or as members of a company not subject to corporation tax, in the course of their farming activities, regardless of…

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Article 69 D of the French General Tax Code

Companies engaged in agricultural activity, other than those mentioned in article 71, created as from 1st January 1997 and whose results are taxed under the conditions provided for in l’article 8, are subject to the system of taxation based on actual profits. However, limited liability farms where the sole shareholder is a natural person managing the farm may benefit from the tax regime mentioned in article 64 bis.

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Article 69 E of the French General Tax Code

Farmers who carry out an activity mentioned in the fifth or sixth paragraph of Article 63 are subject to an actual taxation system. The same applies to farmers all or part of whose assets allocated to the business are included in a fiduciary estate pursuant to a trust transaction defined in Article 2011 of the Civil Code.

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Article 70 of the French General Tax Code

For the application of articles 69, 69 C, 69 D , and 72, account shall be taken of revenue generated by companies and groupings not subject to corporation tax of which the taxpayer is a member, in proportion to his rights in the accounting profits of these companies and groupings. However, the tax treatment of such companies and groupings remains determined solely by the total amount of their revenue. For…

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Article 72 of the French General Tax Code

I. Subject to the application of articles 71 and 72 A to 73 E, the actual profit of the agricultural holding is determined and taxed according to the general principles applicable to industrial and commercial businesses, in accordance with all the legislative provisions and their implementing texts, without restriction or reservation in particular of vocabulary, applicable to industrialists or traders who have opted for the actual system but with rules…

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Article 72 A of the French General Tax Code

I. – As from the first financial year opened after 31 December 1983, for crop production, income in progress consists solely of advances to crops which are entered, at their cost price, in the incoming and outgoing stocks of agricultural holdings subject to the system of taxation based on actual profits. II. – Advances to crops are represented by all costs and charges incurred during a financial year with a…

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