The Ehpad tax reduction will not be transformed into a tax credit in 2023. The 2023 budget prepared by the government for the needs of 49.3 has ruled out this measure. However, this Ehpad reduction is far from benefiting all the elderly people living in retirement homes. Illustration in 5 digits.
1174 euros, the average annual reduction
You live in an Ehpad (accommodation establishment for dependent elderly people) or in an independent residence (ex-housing-home). You pay taxes. You can benefit froma tax reduction. Extract from the government site pour-les-personnes-agees.gouv.fr, section financial aid in Ehpad, alongside the APA (personalized autonomy allowance) or housing aid. But as this site points out, by definition, this tax reduction merely reduces taxes. Non-taxable households do not benefit.
Very precisely, this reduction in income tax is equivalent to 25% of expenses in accommodation for the elderly, within the limit of 10,000 euros of expenses per person accommodated, after deduction of the APA of the expenses subject to reduction. Result: on average, the reduction reaches 1174 euros per year according to the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP), for a maximum reduction of 2500 euros.
230,000 beneficiary households
This average reduction of 1174 euros profit 230,000 beneficiary households in 2021, according to DGFiP statistics published last May. A relatively constant number of beneficiaries, year after year.
420,000 households declare accommodation costs linked to dependency
However, a little more than 420,000 households declare accommodation costs in nursing homes or independent residences, in their declaration of income, according to DGFiP statistics dating back to 2020. The detailed data of the annual declaration even make it possible to identify 450,000 taxpayers declaring such expenses, counting the two members of the same household who are both housed in a residence for the elderly.
How to explain that 190,000 households declaring accommodation costs in this type of establishment do not benefit from the reduction? The DGFiP confirms these figures and provides two explanations. First reason for this lack of reduction for these almost 200,000 households: those who are non-taxable after application of the tax scale, and for whom the reduction has no effect, for lack of income tax to be paid.
Second reason, quite similar: Those who may be subject to other tax reductions which are accounted for upstream of this one. For example, if the household also benefits from a tax reduction for donations made to aid organizations for people in difficulty, and that this tax reduction is sufficient to cancel its tax (…) then it does not is not counted as a beneficiary of the “Ehpad” tax reduction.
In fact, mathematically, if the transformation of the reduction into a tax credit had been voted, these 190,000 households would automatically benefit.
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730,000 elderly people cared for in nursing homes and independent residences
730,000 people ages supported in the various accommodation establishments mentioned above, according to DREES, the equivalent of INSEE for health and employment statistics. Why do residents, their relatives who declare for them, or members of the same tax household forget to claim this tax benefit? Lack of information?
MoneyVox has surveyed the CNSA (National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy) and several associations representing residents in nursing homes, for a conclusion: no one has an element of explanation… or at least dares to provide one.
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1363 euros of rest charge with 916 euros of resources per month
2004euros: here is the median price of accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (Ehpad), each month, according to the CNSA. But modest residents can benefit from various aids.
Here is the written response from Bercy, in 2018, following a question from Senator Yannick Vaugrenard in 2018 on the Ehpad reduction and the cost of this accommodation: The question of covering the expenses mentioned must also be assessed taking into account of all the social assistance and allowances paid by the State and local authorities which already make it possible to reduce the cost of dependency. This is the case, for example, with the personal autonomy allowance (APA) for dependent elderly people, which is exempt from income tax (…).
Gabriel Attal: Obviously, we all want to improve the quality of life of residents in nursing homes
MEP Christine Pirs Beaune is behind the amendment transforming the Ehpad reduction into a tax credit within the framework of the 2023 budget, initially voted by the deputies but ultimately not retained by the government in the text on which it played its part. responsibility. In the explanatory memorandum to its amendment, it provided the following figures, taken from a DREES report dating from 2016: Each month, on average, residents not benefiting from a tax reduction receive 297 euros of APA, 127 euros housing assistance and 301 euros ASH (social housing allowance). Their rest charge then rises 1363 euros for resources reaching an average of 916 euros per month. A significant gap… and the PS deputy even believes that this burden has worsened since then.
Obviously, we all want to improve the quality of life of residents in nursing homes, said Monday, November 7 Gabriel Attal, the National Assembly, returning to the removal of this amendment transforming the reduction into a tax credit. Pointing to the cost of the measure, valued at 675 million euros, and the risk of sprinkling these millions of euros, he nevertheless made a gesture on the subject: to entrust a mission on this Ehpad tax reduction to the deputy PS Christine Pirs Beaune. To be continued…
4.3million beneficiaries of home employment tax credit
Home employment expenses gave the right to a tax reduction until the end of the 2010s. Before this benefit was transformed into a tax credit, a tax credit accessible to all those who declare such expenses since 2018. today, this tax credit benefits 4.3 million tax households, for 1111 euros average advantage.
Tax statistics also show that this tax credit primarily benefits the wealthiest households, but that a third of the beneficiaries are still part of the poorest 50% of the population. However, the Ehpad tax reduction excludes, in fact, this same half of the population.
All the more reason to transform the tax reduction into a credit? Other avenues exist: the Libault report on old age and autonomy, submitted to the government in March 2019, proposes, for example, remove Ehpad discount in order to create a more global allocation aimed at a wider range of residents.
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Correcting your tax return is (still) possible
Did you forget to claim this tax reduction? Good news: you can still correct your 2022 declaration on 2021 income. You have until December 14 to correct your declaration on impots.gouv.fr and thus claim the forgotten tax advantages.
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