Do you occasionally rent furnished accommodation on Airbnb, Booking, Abritel or PAP Vacances? Please note: for this 2024 declaration, the amounts pre-entered in your form on impots.gouv.fr may be incomplete… you should be vigilant when bringing out the summary of your 2023 earnings received at the start of 2024.
Here is some surprise information that slipped into the heart of the press conference to launch the declarative campaign, Thursday April 11, Bercy. During the question-and-answer exercise with journalists, Guillaume Robert, deputy director general of the DGFiP, suddenly wanted to point out an element on furnished rentals: Our fellow citizens were accustomed to the fact that we could make available to them at the time of the declaration process the elements transmitted by the platforms such as Airbnb, Abritel, Booking or other furniture rental sites. Something that had been put in place in France from 2020 and which made it possible to remember that [l’administration fiscale] knew that [les contribuables] had carried out furniture rentals, which the platform had told us was so much, and so please check that it was taxable or not, continued Guillaume Robert.
It was not strictly speaking a pre-filling but an aid to the declaration, he specifies. In fact, your income from collaborative economy platforms appears in an information window: you then have to enter them in the correct boxes.
Message appearing during the 2023 declaration.
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The DGFiP does not point out Airbnb… but the implication leaves little room for doubt
What’s the bug, in 2024? Guillaume Robert calls for vigilance for Airbnb rental companies or other occasional landlords on Abritel and other platforms: Have nothing displayed that moment of the declaration [l o vous aviez l’habitude de voir un montant pr-renseign, NDLR] doesn’t mean you haven’t touched anything.
For what? This year, the system is changing: it is moving to the community level, therefore to the European level, explained Guillaume Robert. We have noted difficulties in adapting to this new community framework, warns the Deputy Director General of the DGFiP.
Unfortunately, be careful: a certain number of platforms, due to technical difficulties encountered by certain platforms in certain countries, will not send us these elements of income generated by the activity and therefore taxpayers must be attentive, continued Guillaume Robert.
Faced with the press, Guillaume Robert did not wish to cite any platform. However, according to The echoes, this problem would have been encountered for platforms domiciled in Ireland. The implication leaves little room for doubt: this problem would indeed concern the most popular furniture rental platform, Airbnb, which is certainly an American group but is domiciled in Ireland, Dublin, where taxation is attractive for multinationals, for its European activities.
Rents affected in 2023: you can take out the summary received in January 2024
Olivier Touvenin, head of the tax management department, sent a warning to those who would be tempted to take advantage of this by not deferring their rents via Airbnb or other platforms: We will receive this information in the coming months. We did not receive them in time to pre-fill them in the declaration.
We will send specific information to households who have declared this type of income
We will send specific information to households who declared this type of income last year, adds Olivier Touvenin. They will receive an email in the next few days. An email therefore encouraging you to bring out the summary of the earnings sent by your rental platform at the start of 2024 to avoid anything forgotten.
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