top start, you can fill in or correct your 2021 income

The tax declaration, or more precisely the 2022 declaration of income for 2021, here we go. The form is already available on impots.gouv.fr.

The button Access the declaration online appeared this Thursday, April 7 in the morning, in your private space on the official tax website.

Taxpayers can thus start declaring their income and expenses for 2021 now. The form is almost unchanged, in this spring of 2022, compared to the last few years. With, however, some new tax changes to take into account, such as the revaluation of the kilometric scale decided in the face of rising fuel prices.

The 2022 online declaration form

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Deadlines: end of May beginning of June

Tax households that cannot make a declaration online and therefore still complete a paper declaration will have until midnight May 19 to return it. For those who declare their income online, the deadline runs from May 24 to June 8, depending on their department of residence.

As every year, certain measures taken during the past year bring some modifications to this declaration. One of the main novelties concerns the mileage bar, which allows taxable households to deduct part of their fuel expenses as business expenses. Faced with soaring gasoline and diesel prices, the government has decided to increase this scale by 10%, a measure that concerns the heart of the middle class, according to the Minister of the Economy. According to government sources, this measure should concern 4.3 million households declaring their actual costs, of which 2.5 million are actually taxed.

The 5 new features of the 2022 declaration

In addition, the tax-exempt purchasing power premium, known as Macron premiumwas extended in 2021. It is exempt from tax up to a limit of 1,000 euros for any employee earning less than three times the minimum wage (gross), and up to 2,000 euros for companies with fewer than 50 employees who have concluded an agreement of profit-sharing or enhancement of so-called second-line professions (i.e. professionals, excluding caregivers, who continued to work on site during the confinements).

The government also extended the recovery, 75% the amount of the donation, the tax reduction grants for a Don an association for the most disadvantaged. This increase also applies to donations made to religious associations.

Furthermore, of new tax credits are appearing this year: that of 30% granted for a first subscription to the information press, or even that of 75% (up to a limit of 300 euros) for the installation of an electric vehicle charging system in a dwelling .

Finally, the rate of the tax reduction for an investment in SMEs is increased from 18% to 25% for investments made between May 9 and December 31, 2021.

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