Each year, when taxes are collected, Francis Lopez, an octogenarian from Montpellier, sees the income of his namesake appear on his return, in addition to his own.
It must be said that the two men share a lot of points in common, an extremely rare case: they were born on the same day, in the same city, have the same name and the same first name.
"
We have the same social security number except the last three digits
" even Francis confides at RMC's microphone.
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This proximity in the identity of the two octogenarians seems to have sown trouble in the complementary AG2R.
This is in fact responsible for transmitting the amount of the taxable supplementary pension of its clients to the general tax department.
But since 2006, during the transmission of information, the organization adds to that of Francis the income of a namesake.
700 euros in taxes paid for its namesake
Before the entry into force of the withholding tax, the victim of this administrative error got out of it by correcting his income tax return. "
It was enough for him to correct the pre-filled declaration in the box which corresponded
" indicates the General Directorate of Taxes, contacted by
Le Figaro
. The process is restrictive but the man would therefore always have paid the "
correct amount of his taxes
". However, he says he paid almost 700 euros in taxes on income he never received last year. According to taxes, the octogenarian would have simply "
forgot to correct his declaration last year
”, Perhaps thinking that the withholding tax made the correction impossible.
They also specify that "
each user is responsible for controlling the information communicated
".
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The octogenarian explains, a little desperate, having tried everything with the tax service and AG2R without ever succeeding in regularizing his situation.
"
I am always told that I am in the bad service
", he laments.
The tax service indicates, however, that he will be received in the coming days to study the situation and possibly reimburse the sums paid for his namesake.
