1. For the application of Article 120, the incorporation of reserves by a foreign company into its share capital does not constitute a chargeable event for income tax.
The provisions set out in 1 of Article 115 are applicable in the event of a merger or demerger involving companies at least one of which is foreign.
The provisions set out in 2 of article 115 are applicable in the event of a partial contribution of assets by a foreign company and placed under a tax regime comparable to the article 210 A.
2. The following are not considered as income within the meaning of article 120:
1° The amortisation of all or part of the share capital, interest shares or limited partnerships carried out by the concessionary companies of the State, départements, communes and other public authorities, as well as by the concessionary companies of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Mayotte, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, municipalities and other public authorities in these local authorities, where such depreciation is justified by the obsolescence of all or part of the corporate assets, in particular through progressive decay or the obligation to hand them over to the concession-granting authority at the end of the concession ;
2° Repayments from reserves incorporated into capital before 1 January 1949 and sums incorporated before that date into capital or reserves on the occasion of a merger.