Nation Reader Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Hi there! My old housemate in France sent me (belatedly) a letter from my year teaching there entitled déclaration fiscale des traitements et salaires perçus au cours de l'année 2011' - does any one know exactly what this translates as, and what, if anything, I have to do about it? I thought my tax came out of my pay every month, so I am a little confused...When I try and translate it myself it comes out as 'Tax declaration of salaries and wages collected in 2011'Any help would be very much appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Hope you have kept your pay slips as you will see that all those deductions were not for income tax but all the other deductions that everyone pays in France.Only under very exceptional circumstances does PAYE exist in France.Usually everyone living in France gets a tax form in the spring time to make a tax declaration for the previous year. The tax year being from the 1st of Jan to the 31st Dec. ie people will be filling in tax forms around 'now' for the whole of 2014 and will get their bill later in the year.As you appear to not have done your tax form I suggest that you get onto it. The figure you use is the 'net impots' figure on the bottom of your very last pay slip.If you worked over two different tax years, then both years will need a tax form filling in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nation Reader Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 Thanks for your quick response.I don't think I have my payslips, so I will have to contact the French tax department and explain the situation. I didn't earn too much (about 10,000 euros a year) so hopefully the bill won't be too big...although I imagine there will be penalty for late payment. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Maybe you won't owe any tax, but as you say maybe a penalty payment, as one has to fill the forms in, if having worked but owing nothing.Get in touch with your former employer, they should still have copies of your last pay slip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nation Reader Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsnips Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 [quote user="idun"]Maybe you won't owe any tax, but as you say maybe a penalty payment, as one has to fill the forms in, if having worked but owing nothing.Get in touch with your former employer, they should still have copies of your last pay slip.[/quote]Hi, The penalty for late declaration - (which can be annuled by a "remise gracieuse" -see here;http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/abc-lettres/remise-gracieuse/impots/argent.htmlThese are usually granted where there is no evidence of "mauvais foi" on the part of the taxpayer.) -is a "majoration" of 10% of the tax due.so if no tax was due , there will be no penalty . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val_2 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 And if the OP does not realise it, you must keep all payslips for life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 [:D] Rather too late for that methinks!!!I know that the bureau de paie keep them for years and years, as I have a friend who is a pay clerk, so they should have copies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindal1000 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Goodness, I don't keep anything for life! I thought it was just for 7 years! I actually don't keep hard copies of anything. It's all scanned and saved on the cloud! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 When we first got to France we were told to keep everything for ever and we did. Which, in fact, even though we found out that some things do not need keeping 'that' long, as we had a couple of hiccoughs when we were leaving France and I had the paperwork, not quite to hand, but I did find it.I have thrown lots away, but have kept all the impots stuff and payslips from 1981 and all the stuff pertaining to the house purchase along with about 15 years bank statements. Frankly there is so much, that I could not be bothered to be harris'd to copy all the stuff we need to keep now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindal1000 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I don't think we'd have the space to store all that stuff! We have always scanned everything since arriving..so I guess in a sense we do keep absolutely everything.. but just not in paper. It is a pain but relatively easy to find most things..not withstanding by illogical filing system (according to OH)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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