Tout is repaired. After three days of suspension, due to pre-filling errors in certain declarations, the online income declaration service was restored on the morning of Monday April 11, the Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) told Agence France -Hurry. The initial error (difference between their actual income and that of their pre-filled declaration), spotted on Friday, would have impacted “about 1 million taxpayers”. A message will be sent individually to all these taxpayers to explain the procedure to follow in order to correct their declaration, and the administration will then check that the modifications have been made. Other taxpayers can “normally” file their tax return for the year 2021, indicates the DGFiP in a press release.
The origin of the error has been found: it is a bad transcription of overtime hours exempt from income tax for civil servants who worked overtime in 2021, details the DGFiP. “You should check the consistency between the amounts indicated in your pre-completed tax return and those mentioned on the annual tax certificate issued by your employer for the year 2021 or the net taxable amount for the year appearing on the pay slip. of December 2021”, she adds again.
Teachers affected by the prefill error
The alert came last week from professors who were concerned about the discrepancy between their income and that of their pre-filled declaration. Faced with this situation, the tax administration had to suspend the procedure for online declaration of income on Friday, which had only started the day before. “These prefill discrepancies in the display have no impact on the tax amount at this point. Indeed, the withholding tax applied to the taxpayers concerned has not been affected in any way”, according to the DGFiP.
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For almost all French households who choose to make their declaration online, the deadline runs from May 24 to June 8, depending on their department of residence. Households that cannot make a declaration online and therefore still complete a paper declaration have until midnight on May 19 to return it.