For residents of Marseille, Nice, La Rochelle… and all cities in departments numbered 1 to 19, the 2023 income declaration deadline is Thursday May 23, 2024. Residents of Nantes and Toulouse have until 30 May while the deadline is June 6 for Parisians and Lyonnais for example. Why this discrepancy between territories?
3 zones, 3 different calendars. Each year, French taxpayers are divided into three groups, according to their department of residence. With more or less long income declaration deadlines (between 6 and 8 weeks).
For example, Marseille, located in the Bouches-du-Rhne department (13), is systematically part of the first wave: this year, the deadline for completing your online declaration is Thursday, May 23, 11:59 p.m. Paris, department 75, and the entire Paris region (departments 77, 78, 91, 92, 93, 94 and 95), are still part of the last wave, where the deadline this year is Thursday June 6. Between the two, Bordeaux (33), Nantes (44) and Dijon (21) are in the second wave: the deadline this year is Thursday June 1.
| Departments | Deadline for online declaration |
|---|---|
1 19 and non-resident households | THURSDAY May 2311:59 p.m. |
20 54 (including Corsica) | THURSDAY May 3011:59 p.m. |
55 and beyond (including the French Overseas Territories) | THURSDAY June 611:59 p.m. |
| For the declaration on paper (if it is impossible to declare on impots.gouv.fr) | |
| All departments | Tuesday May 21st11:59 p.m., |
Source: DGFiP
Why this division of the territory into 3 zones? Three years ago, The world asked the (innocuous but relevant) question to the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP). Answer: This makes traffic on the Impots.gouv.fr site smoother and smoothes out load peaks.. Since 2010, these are zones by department number, previously it was according to school holiday zones. The zones were divided according to the number of tax households in order to be homogeneous.
The world had also emerged a response from Bercy the written question from MP Olivier Falorni to find out why the protocol order does not change from one year to the next (like the dates of school holidays). The minister’s response, which dates from 2016: Maintaining the same order of zones each year for closing the online declaration has an educational virtue. Clear: upsetting this order would, according to the DGFiP, risk causing confusion. However, this does not prevent the administration from making some adjustments when necessary: the inhabitants of departments numbered 50 to 54 had thus moved from the 3rd to the 2nd group in 2020, for the 2019 income declaration.
However, is a change in the number of groups or the distribution of departments in the zones envisaged on the Bercy side? Contacted by MoneyVox in 2022, the General Directorate of Public Finances specified: No reflection is underway on the zoning of the filing dates of the income declaration. It works well and we have no negative feedback.
Income tax 2024 *
Thursday May 23, 2024 11:59 p.m.
Thursday May 30, 2024 11:59 p.m.
Thursday June 6, 2024 11:59 p.m.
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*Declaration deadlines 2024 2023 revenue