1. Companies and legal persons are prohibited from bearing the amount of withholding tax relating to:
1° Dividends and other income distributed to members, shareholders and unit holders or to members of the boards of directors of public limited companies;
2° Income referred to in 1° of Article 118 and relating to securities issued on or after 1 January 1965.
These provisions do not apply in the event of the redemption of bonus shares.
2. Insofar as they are not contrary to the provisions of 1, the clauses of the articles of association or contracts of issue, pursuant to which the debtor companies or undertakings were required to bear the proportional tax previously in force, shall apply ipso jure to the withholding tax referred to in 1 of article 1672.