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Taxes: why are the tax return deadlines different from one department to another?

2023-04-28T14:37:47.999Z


While residents of Charente or Calvados have until May 25 to declare their income, their neighbors have an extra week, or even two, to do so.


Since April 13, individuals can report their 2022 income online.

However, not all French people have the same deadlines, the declaration deadline depending on the department of residence.

Residents of departments numbered 1 to 19 have until Thursday, May 25 at 11:59 p.m., those ranging from numbers 20 to 54 have until June 1.

And those ranging from 55 to 974/976 have a deadline of June 8.

Individuals who make a paper declaration all have the same due date: May 22 at 11:59 p.m., as evidenced by the postmark.

Residents of Aisne or Ardèche have seven days less than those of Haute-Marne or Gironde and even two weeks less than those living in Oise or Tarn to declare their income. .

But then why this difference?

In 2014, the deputy of Charente-Maritime, Olivier Falorni, had already asked the question to the Minister of Finance and Public Accounts.

According to him, “

there is no rotation system, which has the consequence, each year, of subjecting the same taxpayers to the same deadline

”.

He even mentions “

a problem from the point of view of equality before the tax

”.

Some readers of Le

Figaro

have also wondered about this difference: “

How is this systematic inequality of treatment that is repeated from year to year justified?

asks a surfer.

"

Every year, living in 13 and making the declarations of the elderly people in the family in addition to mine, I live in hell because of this collected time…

”says another.

Reduce peak phenomena

The Ministry of Finance and Public Accounts responded to Olivier Falorni by explaining that the existence of three geographical areas with different deadlines made it possible "

to prevent and mitigate the phenomena of information system load peaks, which occur at the approaching a filing deadline

.

The goal is therefore to streamline the service so as not to clutter the platform.

The Ministry of Finance at the time invoked a certain “

pedagogical virtue

” in not rotating between the different zones from one year to the next.

Users can "

know in advance which zone they belong to and the closing date of the service

", it is specified.

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Le Figaro

has posed these questions to the General Directorate of Public Finances, which considers that this has "no

impact except for a different filing date

".

The main reason for the different deadlines would therefore be the need to "

smooth the flow of online declarations

".

No modification is envisaged for the moment, "

it is a modus operandi now well anchored in the habits of taxpayers and there is no request for a change

", answers the DGFIP.

Source: lefigaro

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