The Directorate General of Public Finance (DGFiP) had indicated on Friday the suspension of access to the online tax declaration site “at least for the weekend”.
The online income declaration service, suspended on Friday due to errors in the pre-filling of certain declarations, was restored on Monday morning, the general directorate of public finances (DGFiP) told AFP.
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The analysis carried out by the tax authorities led to the conclusion that the error concerned “approximately 1 million taxpayers“, all public officials, who had noted a discrepancy between their real income and that of their pre-filled declaration, a spokesperson for the DGFiP told AFP. A message will be sent to them individually to explain the procedure to follow in order to correct their declaration, and the administration will then verify that the modifications have been made, said this source.
Poor transcription of overtime
Other taxpayers can carry outnormallytheir 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. “It is advisable to check the consistency between the amounts indicated in your pre-completed income 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 payslip of your employer. December 2021“, she adds again.
The alert had come last week from teachers 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 pre-fill gaps in the display have no impact on the tax amount at this point. Indeed, the withholding tax applied to the taxpayers concerned was not 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 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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