Bicycle Bonus for companies

Verified 26 July 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

The bike bonus is a aid for the purchase or long-term hire of bicycles (using electricity, hydrogen or a combination of the two as the exclusive source of energy). The bike bonus takes the form of a variable amount payment or a deduction on the cost of buying or renting the bike. It can be applied to bicycles with or without electric propulsion. Individual companies and businesses can benefit.

One ecological bonus applicable to passenger cars, vans and motor vehicles (2 or 3 wheels) and quadricycles also exist.

The bike bonus can benefit:

  • All individual business domiciled in France, if the reference tax income per share of the entrepreneur is less than or equal to €15,400
  • All business with evidence of establishment in France

In order to benefit from it, the company must:

  • Either buy a bike that can benefit from the bonus
  • Either rent a bicycle that can benefit from the bonus, as part of a contract of 2 years or more

FYI  

Individual business A person can only benefit from the bike bonus once.

The bikes that can benefit from the bike bonus are those who, on the date of their invoicing (in case of purchase) or on the date of payment of 1er the rent provided for in the vehicle rental contract corresponds to one of the following situations. These are:

  • Either cycles (examples: bikes, cargo bikes, adapted bikes, folding bikes)
  • Either by pedal-assisted cycles that do not use lead-acid batteries (Examples: bicycles, cargo bikes, retrofit bikes, electrically powered folding bikes)
  • Or electric trailers for cycles.

FYI  

The legal persons may only benefit from the bicycle bonus for electric trailers for cycles and for cycles that meet at least one of the following conditions:

  • Arranged to allow the transport of persons or goods to the rear or front of the driver
  • Accommodated to accommodate the needs of persons with disabilities
  • Folding.

Recipients of the bike bonus must not give up the bike having given them the bonus within one year after its date of invoicing or payment of 1er rent.

In addition, a company who buys or rents a bicycle that meets the conditions for qualifying for the ecological bonus and who rents it for a period of 2 years or more cannot qualify for the bonus.

The amount of the bike bonus depends on the type of bike and other parameters.

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Cycles designed for the transport of persons or goods, folding cycles and electric trailers for cycles

Individual entrepreneur whose reference tax income per unit is less than or equal to € 7 100

For cycles designed to allow the transport of persons or goods at the rear or front of the driver, for folding cycles and for electric trailers for cycles, the amount of the bicycle bonus is fixed at 40% of cost of acquisition or lease, in the limit of €2,000. This threshold applies only if the vehicle is acquired or leased by an individual entrepreneur whose reference tax income per unit is less than or equal to €7,100.

Businesses and other individual companies

For cycles designed to carry persons or goods at the rear or front of the driver, for folding cycles and for electric trailers for cycles, the amount of the bike bonus is set at 40% of cost of acquisition or lease, in the limit of €1,000.

Other cycles with pedaling assistance

Individual entrepreneur whose reference tax income per unit is less than or equal to € 7 100

For pedaling cycles that are not fitted out or folding, the amount of the bike bonus is set at 40% of cost of acquisition or lease, in the limit of €400. This threshold applies only if the vehicle is acquired or leased by an individual entrepreneur whose reference tax income per unit is less than or equal to €7,100.

Other individual companies

For pedaling cycles that are not fitted out or folding, the amount of the bike bonus is set at 40% of cost of acquisition or lease, in the limit of €300.

Businesses

The legal persons cannot benefit from the bike bonus for cycles with assisted pedaling that are not fitted out or folding.

Other cycles (without assisted pedaling)

For other cycles not powered by pedaling, the amount of the bike bonus is set at 40% of cost of acquisition or lease, in the limit of €150.

That applies only if the vehicle is acquired or leased by a sole trader whose per-unit reference tax income is less than or equal to €7,100.

FYI  

Other people (including legal persons) are not eligible for the bike bonus for these cycles.

The cumulative amount of the bike bonus, the conversion bonus and the retrofit bonus for the same bike may not exceed the cost of acquisition including all taxes of the bicycle, plus the cost of the battery if it is rented and for electric bicycles, reduced commercial discounts.

No request must be made if sellers, car rentals or other organizations make the advance of the bike bonus.

If this advance is not made, requests for bike bonuses must be made no later than 6 months next:

  • Either the date of the bicycle's invoice, in the case of a purchase
  • Either the payment date of 1er rent, in the case of a rental

The request for a bike bonus takes place via the online service dedicated to ecological bonuses:

Online application for the ecological bonus and/or the conversion bonus

The bike bonus is:

  • Either advance to the beneficiary by sellers or car rentals or other organizations distributing loans related to the Payment and Services Agency (PSA). In this case, the aid shall apply in full to the amount, including taxes, of the bicycle mentioned on the purchase or hire invoice, after any rebate, discount, deduction or advantage granted by the seller. For a rental of a duration greater than or equal to 2 years, the bonus must be paid to the tenant at the latest at the end of 1re term provided for in the lease and up to the amount expressly mentioned in the lease.
  • Either paid directly to its payee by the Payment and Services Agency (on request)

The aid must appear clearly on the invoice, the receipt or the lease contract and must be accompanied by the words: ‘Ecological bonus - aid for the acquisition and rental of low-emission vehicles’.

The beneficiary of the bike bonus must return the amount within 3 months when the bicycle which enabled him to benefit from it is transferred:

  • Within one year after the date of the vehicle's invoice, if the beneficiary purchased the vehicle
  • Within one year after the date of payment of the first rent, if the beneficiary has rented the vehicle

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