The tax administration made the announcement this Friday, the day after the start of the 2021 tax return campaign.
The General Directorate of Public Finance (DGFiP) announced on Friday the suspension “from now on“access to the online tax return site”at least for the weekend“, after errors of pre-filling of the declarations, in particular for teachers.
“Access to the online declaration is temporarily suspended from today, the time to carry out the necessary investigations“, explained to AFP a spokesperson for the DGFiP, after the report by taxpayers of overstated amounts of pre-filled income, the day after the start of the income declaration campaign for 2021.
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The alert came from professors who were worried about the discrepancy between their actual income and that of their pre-filled declarations. “We have noticed discrepancies on certain categories whose teachers and expertise work is in progress at the moment“, declared to AFP the representative of the General Directorate of Public Finances. Some reactions on social networks speak of revenue increases of between 30% and 60%.
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The DGFiP considers that the differences observed will not affect the amount of tax deducted but has preferred to suspend electronic declarations “time to carry out the necessary checks“. “If you have validated a declaration containing a pre-filling error, it will be possible to correct it later and all the information will be given to you as soon as the site reopens.“, assures the administration in a press release published on Friday.
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The 2022 declaration campaign for 2021 income began on Thursday, with some new features such as the revaluation of the mileage scale decided in the face of rising fuel prices. For almost all French households who choose to do it online, the deadline runs from May 24 to June 8, depending on their department of residence. Households who cannot make a declaration online and therefore still complete a paper declaration, have until midnight on May 19 to return it.
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