According to a press release from the Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) published Monday, April 11, a million civil servants would be affected by an error by the tax authorities in filling out their income declaration.
It took the tax authorities three days to figure out where the error was. On Monday April 11, the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) finally indicated thata million civil servants had been subject in recent days to pre-filling differences in their income. In other words, their tax-exempt overtime was reported in the wrong box by the tax authorities.
However, overtime and additional hours worked in 2021 are exempt from income tax within the limit of 5000 euros per year and by salary. Only the surplus to be taxed as wages. This reporting error could have the potential consequence of making the civil servants concerned pay tax on hours worked, which are nevertheless exempt from income tax.
A slightly damaging pre-fill gap
However, according to the tax authorities, this error is minimal since it can be repaired. Asked by Capital, she asserts that most civil servants have not yet signed their declaration. They will receive a personal message, by e-mail or post, very soon, to let them know the way forwardwe specify on the side of Bercy.
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From then on, the injured officials will be able to rectify the situation by referring to the amounts presented on their tax certificate or their last payslip for 2021 and by modifying the amounts in squares 1AJ and 1BJ. On impots.gouv.fr, this manipulation is carried out in the Amount of taxable income column. Finally, the tax authorities recall that last year’s tax having already been deducted at source, this pre-filling discrepancy has no consequence on the amount of income tax for 2021.
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