Taxpayers whose tax residence is in France may open an equity savings plan for the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-cap companies with a credit institution, the Caisse des dépôts et consignations, the Banque de France, La Banque Postale, an investment company or an insurance company governed by the Insurance Code.
Each taxpayer or each spouse or partner in a civil solidarity pact subject to joint taxation may only hold one share savings plan intended for the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises and intermediate-sized enterprises. There can only be one holder of such a plan.
The plan gives rise to the opening of a securities account and an associated cash account, or, for plans opened with an insurance company, to the signing of a capitalisation contract.
Plan holders may make cash deposits up to a limit of €225,000 since the plan was opened. However, when the holder of a plan referred to in the first paragraph is also the holder of a plan referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 221-30, the total cash payments made into these two plans since they were opened may not exceed the limit of €225,000.