What is in force as at 26 July 2026: the caps of 600 euros per year and per employee, of which no more than 300 euros of fuel, and of 900 euros at least where combined with the season-ticket contribution. They appear at b of 19° ter of article 81 of the code général des impôts, in its version applicable since 1 July 2026. That version date reflects no reform: it results from article 2 of décret n° 2026-562 du 29 juin 2026, a codification text. The amounts have been unchanged since article 7 of loi n° 2023-1322 du 29 décembre 2023 de finances pour 2024, applicable from the taxation of 2025 income.
What is settled for one year only: the exemption of the optional element of the transport season-ticket contribution, beyond the compulsory floor of 50 per cent of the ticket cost, up to a further 25 per cent of the price of the tickets, as it results from III of article 2 of loi n° 2022-1157 du 16 août 2022. Article 68 of loi n° 2026-103 du 19 février 2026 de finances pour 2026 did no more than substitute the year 2026 for the year 2025 in that text. Nothing is written for 2027. If you are building a mobility policy over three years, this point belongs to your assumptions, not to your certainties.
What has expired: the enhanced regime applicable to the income of the years 2022 to 2024, namely 700 euros per year of which 400 euros of fuel, amounts raised to 900 euros of which 600 euros in the overseas territories governed by article 73 of the Constitution for the whole duration of that regime, together with the 800 euro cap that applied, under that regime, where the forfait was combined with a season ticket. That regime was introduced by article 2 of loi n° 2022-1157 du 16 août 2022 for the income of 2022 and 2023, then extended by one year by article 29 of loi n° 2023-1322 du 29 décembre 2023 for the income of 2024. Pages still showing 700 or 800 euros are out of date, some of them public pages: a government web address is no guarantee that the page has been kept up to date. Always check the update date before repeating an amount.
A word, finally, on the lever specific to fleets, because a false formula circulates widely about it. The corporation-tax reduction under article 220 undecies A of the code général des impôts is not equal to 25 per cent of the costs incurred. It is equal to the costs generated by making the fleet available free of charge, those costs being taken into account up to 25 per cent of the purchase or rental price of that fleet. Since the doctrine update of 8 January 2025, that limit is assessed per purchase or rental, and not per financial year. Any unused excess reduction is neither refundable nor capable of being carried forward to later financial years.
There are two caveats to this scheme, and we state them rather than pass over them. First, the cut-off date written into the text is 31 December 2027 as the law stood at 26 July 2026: no extension can be presented as settled, and no early repeal as ruled out. Second, the statute itself makes the tax reduction conditional, where the fleet is rented, on a contract taken out for a minimum term of three years, at the second alinéa of I of article 220 undecies A. The doctrine adds that this contract must be taken out with a rental company, and makes no mention of crédit-bail. We therefore do not present the eligibility of a crédit-bail as settled: this point is secured by way of a rescrit (a binding advance ruling from the French tax authorities), on the basis of article L. 80 B of the livre des procédures fiscales (the French Book of Tax Procedures).