this deadline which allows you to spread the invoice

Are you liable for property tax? You have until June 30 to subscribe to the monthly levy for the year 2023.

Here’s a quick procedure that can save you from the unpleasant surprise of an overly salty bill in the fall. Instead of paying your property tax (or even your housing tax if you have a second home) all at once in October, you can apply today for a monthly installment of the bill. Deadline to join the monthly payment in 2023: June 30. Then, you can only claim the monthly payment for 2024.

A higher levy for 3 months to be expected

By claiming the monthly payment of your local taxes during the year, you will have to catch up with the monthly payments of the last few months. The monthly direct debit will in fact be set up on the 15th of the following month, from July 15 for a request in June, and in any case before June 30. The sum of the direct debits due since January 1st is distributed in equal parts over your first three monthly direct debitswarns the Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP).

The monthly payment normally amounts to dividing the estimated tax by 10, and staggering the payments over 10 months, from January to October. By starting a monthly payment in July, you will pay more than a usual monthly payment in July, August and September, and return to the normal withdrawal in October. A examplesimulated for a property tax of 1000 euros:

As a reminder, the month of October will also be that of the regularization of the annual balance for the 2023 property tax. If this increases slightly, the monthly payment could be slightly higher than expected. And if it increases very sharply, the DGFiP can give you an extra chance in mid-November. For example, if your property tax increases by 10% in the example above, and rises to 1100 euros, an additional 100 euros will be levied in November 2023.

But you will still have already paid most of your debt, and experienced the unpleasant fall surprise.

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How to make the monthly payment request?

First option: make the request by post, email, telephone or directly by going to your tax office. Second option, simpler: make an online request, in your personal space on impots.gouv.fr. In your dashboard, go to the Payments section then Adhere to the levy for the payment of my taxes (housing tax, property tax) and finally Subscribe to the monthly direct debit.

You can then select the local taxes for which you choose the monthly payment: be careful to select only the property tax unless you are one of those who will continue to pay housing tax for their second home! If the property tax does not appear in the list, you can enter the reference of the last notice (received in the fall of 2022) in the corresponding box. Then ask for a Effective in 2023.

You will then need to enter your bank details to activate the monthly direct debit mandate. Check carefully, again, which local tax is affected by this monthly levy: the tax authorities remind you of this on the tax type line before definitively confirming the monthly payment. The Public Treasury then informs you of a first levy on July 15, 2023, and it promises you as soon as possible a schedule detailing the amount and date of your monthly levies concerning your 2023 tax notice.

Dj monthly? You can modify or stop your direct debits

Do you anticipate a large increase in your property tax in 2023 and prefer to pay the excess in advance? The process is the same, but choose manage my direct debits in the payments section. Then manage my contract and finally modify the amount of my direct debit.

The same procedure allows you to stop the withdrawals in progress. Of course, this will not exempt you from paying the balance of the tax d. The monthly payment remains a spread of the tax payment in advance.