Financial assistance provided by private or public companies for forest owners wishing to apply a silvicultural route that improves carbon sequestration in the forest. Companies finance projects to acquire emission reductions that are part of carbon offsetting.
Aid for reforestation in the form of an advance repayable at 0% interest.
Assistance provided by companies or individuals in the form of sponsorship. Companies can benefit from a corporate tax reduction equal to 60% of the amount paid.
Aid for poplar reforestation proposed by farmers or industrialists who are members of the "Merci le Peuplier" charter
The scheme allows forest owners (including local authorities) to benefit from aid for 4 types of measures:
1. Renewal of a resinous forest by natural regeneration
2. Irregularization of forest stands (= continuous forest without clear-cutting)
3. Improvement of deciduous and pine stands (enrichment, undercover planting, thinning, baling,...)
4. Diversified reforestation of resinous clear cuts
Assistance in writing a first simple management plan
Aid for the loss-making exploitation of chestnut coppice
Robinia reforestation
resinous pruning
Encourage farmers or foresters to improve the structure of their land ownership and encourage them to acquire wooded plots adjacent to those already owned
Assistance with the planting of country hedges and the planting of the tree in the parcel of the farm.
The silviculturist is concerned by the real estate wealth tax (IFI) when his assets are greater than or equal to €1.3 million on 1 January 2019
When wood and forests are considered as professional property by their owner, they can benefit from a total exemption from ISF. Otherwise, they may benefit from a partial exemption from transfer duty free of charge
Timber and forests and shares of forest groups (held for more than 2 years) may benefit from a three-quarters exemption from transfer duties on inheritances or donations