I. – For income tax or corporation tax purposes, operating expenses incurred in scientific or technical research operations may, at the company’s option, be capitalised or deducted from the results for the year or financial year in which they were incurred.
When a company has chosen to deduct them, these expenses may not be taken into account when assessing the cost of inventories.
These provisions apply to expenses incurred in software development operations.
I bis. – Subsidies allocated to companies by the European Union or the bodies set up by its institutions, the State, local authorities and public establishments specialising in aid for scientific or technical research and which are allocated to the financing of research expenditure capitalised under the conditions set out in I above are attached to taxable profits to the extent of the depreciation of the amount of this expenditure carried out at the end of each financial year.
(Paragraph disjointed).
II. – (repealed).