Regime of Groups - Updating of the Deemed Deferred Depreciations, Forgiveness of

The French Tax Authorities recently gave some precisions concerning the following problems linked to the French Tax Consolidation Regime:

- the updating of the losses and deemed deferred depreciations is not forbidden, however the implementation of such a technique requires an adaptation of the rules of common right.

- moreover, the forgivenesses of debts with a betterment clause granted between companies of the same tax consolidated group are subject to a differentiated treatment depending on the date of the forgiveness of debt and that of the betterment clause.

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