For the inhabitants of Marseille (and of all the cities of the departments numbered from 1 to 19), the deadline for declaring income 2021 is Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The residents of Nantes and Toulouse have them until May 31 while the deadline is fixed at June 8 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 just over 6 weeks and almost 9 weeks).
For example, Marseille, located in the department of Bouches-du-Rhne (13), is systematically part of the first wave: this year, the deadline for completing your online declaration is May 24. Paris, department 75, and the whole of the Paris region (departments 77, 78, 91, 92, 93, 94 and 95), are still part of the last wave, where the deadline is June 8. Between the two, Bordeaux (33), Nantes (44) or even Dijon (21) are in the second wave: the deadline is there this year, fixed for May 31.
| Departments | Deadline |
|---|---|
| 1 19 and non-resident households | Tuesday May 2411:59 p.m. |
| 20 54 | Tuesday May 31st11:59 p.m. |
| 55 and beyond | Wednesday June 811:59 p.m. |
Source: DGFiP
Why this division of the territory into 3 zones? Last year, The world asked the innocuous but relevant question of the Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP). Answer: This makes it possible to streamline traffic on the Impots.gouv.fr site and smooth out peak loads.. Since 2010, these are zones by department number, previously it was based on school holiday zones. The zones have been divided according to the number of tax households in order to be homogeneous.
The world had also emerged from a response from Bercy to the written question of MP Olivier Falorni to find out why the protocol order does not change from one year to another (on the model of the dates of school holidays). The Minister’s response, which dates from 2016: Maintaining the same order of zones each year for the closure of the online declaration has a pedagogical virtue. Clear: upsetting this order could, according to the DGFiP, lead to 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 declaration of income 2019.
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Is a change in the number of groups or the distribution of departments in the zones, however, planned on the side of Bercy? Contacted by MoneyVox in April 2022, the Directorate General of Public Finance specifies that no reflection is underway on the zoning of the dates for filing the tax return. It works well and we have no negative feedback.