Alimony in the wrong box, forgotten donations to charities, hidden after-school fees, poorly declared dependent children, badly claimed retirement savings deduction… There are many reasons for errors or omissions for taxes. But why dive back into this drudgery in mid-December? Because you can easily correct your declaration online until this evening.
Tick tock. The France-Morocco semi-final is not the only chance of the day… The online income tax return correction service is open from Wednesday August 3 to Wednesday, December 14, 11:59 p.m., we read in the frequently asked questions (FAQ) of the online correction tool accessible on impots.gouv.fr. Tomorrow, Thursday December 15, it will be too late. If in doubt, it is therefore time to check your 2022 tax notice for errors or omissions. If you validated your declaration online (or if you benefit from the automatic declaration), you can correct almost all the information provided last spring.
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All the boxes and lines of your spring declaration can be corrected, or almost. With the exception of the modification of marital status or the change of address, which goes through another heading. Not possible, either, to modify the RA box, synonymous with TV license fee: following the abolition of the public audiovisual contribution, this box is frozen since it is obsolete.
Tax correction tool, instructions for use
Log on to your private space on impots.gouv.fr. The following button appears prominently at the top of the dashboard.
Then follow the instructions. The form looks almost identical to that of your initial teledeclaration.
After having corrected the inaccurate or forgotten amounts, you can check what has been modified: Before signing, the screen Summary presents to you all of the items you have entered or confirmed when correcting your declaration online, announces the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) in its FAQ. Finally, after validation, a correction save confirmation email of your declaration is sent to the electronic address of each of the declarants. You can also find the amending declaration in PDF on the Documents tab of your dashboard on impots.gouv.fr.
Screenshots on impots.gouv.fr
Who can correct their statement?
Last year, 600000 fixes have thus been made with this online tool according to the DGFiP, for 800,000 corrections in 2020 and 300,000 via the same form in 2019. This tool is reserved for users who have declared their income online (…) or who have been taxed according to the device of the automatic declaration, explains the tax administration. Those who declared on paper and those who declared via a third party (accountant, etc.) are therefore excluded from this online service.
Who has interest in correcting his statement?
All those who were wrong about the amounts of resources and charges, of course. But also all those who forgot to claim a tax benefit. MoneyVox lists in the following article many forgotten credits and reductions: pre-school fees, donations to associations, political and union contributions, accommodation costs for the elderly, school fees, etc.
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And after mid-December?
Passed this Wednesday, December 14, final limit to correct your salaries, income and expenses for the year 2021, online, you have two options left as explained by the tax authorities: first of all use on impots.gouv.fr My secure email (check I am reporting an error in the calculation of my tax), otherwise file a corrective statement on paper with your tax office.
To know: via your secure messaging system just like in a public finance center, you then have 2 years to make a claim. For this 2022 declaration of 2021 income, you can therefore request the correction of an amount in this way until December 31, 2024. You therefore have the possibility of correcting your declarations for past years if you ever become aware of a omission than today.
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