Since this Thursday, it is possible to declare your 2023 income online. In theory, nearly eleven million taxpayers do not have to worry about this thanks to automatic declaration. But there is a catch for certain households. Explanations.
Around 11 million users benefit from automatic declaration each year. An advance that allows you to no longer worry too much about the income declaration. If they consider that the information presented by the tax authorities in their pre-filled declaration is correct, taxpayers then do not have to do nothing.
In fact, they will then be automatically taken into account for the final calculation of the tax, without any additional action. In principle, the vast majority of people eligible for automatic declaration in 2022 are also eligible this year while the 2024 campaign for 2023 income declaration opened this Thursday.
Attention! In some cases, those who benefited from automatic declaration in 2023 no longer do so. In what cases? If they have reported a change in their tax household or new types of income, such as: a change of address; a change in family situation (marriage or civil partnership, divorce or breakdown of civil partnership, etc.); a creation of a withholding deposit at source (in the event of starting an independent professional activity or new receipt of property income for example).
How to avoid the 3 pitfalls of automatic declaration
Informed mid-April by email
These people will be notified by the tax administration. Users who were eligible for automatic declaration in 2023 but who will no longer be eligible in 2024 will be informed that they must file an income declaration this year:
- by email (mid-April) if they have opted to no longer receive a declaration in paper format
- by a specific message on their paper declaration if they have not opted for the online declaration, the tax authorities announced in their press kit on the 2024 income declaration.
So watch your emails carefully. Because if you thought you would benefit from automatic declaration and that is no longer the case, forgetting to declare your income can be very expensive.
All our advice for the 2024 income declaration