News on 2009 tax declaration

[Clair]

Impôt sur le revenu 2009: les nouveautés de la déclaration de revenus

The main points (Google translation)

in 2009, reporting on the Internet will be even easier thanks to two innovations:

• Users can declare their income online from any computer with easy
  and secure acces, using three identifiers. The electronic
  certificate will no longer be necessary.
• if there are no addition or modification to bring to their
  pre-completed tax return, a simplified procedure will allow
  them to declare in 3 clicks
• Taxpayers retain, as in past years, the possibility of
  declaring with a certificate that gives them access to their tax
  account online.

Internet users still have all the benefits of the online declaration.

• Users who choose the online declaration have an extended deadline to complete their declaration.

• They do not need to send proof or evidence.

• They know immediately the
  amount of taxes owed.
• They can correct their statement at any time.
• Those who report online for the first time and choose to pay their income tax online either monthly or in full, or by direct debit, will receive a tax reduction of 20 €.

The deadline for filing the paper declaration is Friday 29 May at midnight.

Taxpayers who choose to declare their income on

www.impots.gouv.fr will again this year benefit from an extended deadline.

• for zone A: Thursday 11 June at midnight
• for zone B and Corsica: Thursday 18 June at midnight
• for zone C and overseas departments (DOM): Thursday 25 June at midnight

• Non-residents taxpayers residing in Europe, the
  Mediterranean coastal countries, North America and Africa must complete their tax returns - paper or online - by
  Tuesday 30 June at midnight .
• Non-residents taxpayers residing in other countries in the world must complete their tax returns - paper or online - by
  Wednesday at midnight July 15.

[mint]

[kiss] pour toi, Clair.

[Nell]

Thanks Clair - Any idea when we should see the paper forms dropping through our letterboxes ??

[Clair]

No delivery calendar yet...

[Chrissie]

My local Impots say the forms won't be coming out until beginning of May.

Chrissie 981)

[Gardian]

Excellent info - thanks.

[Clair]

Déclarez plus simple

(in Google English here)

[Araucaria]

My local bureau des impots assured me that I could file online, even though it was the first French tax return I would be making (I became resident in 2008).

I feel fairly sure this is wrong, as filing on line seems to require various identifying numbers that come from the previous year's paper return or tax payments statement - but can anyone confirm or deny this?

I am aware that the FAQs above say that the first ever filing has to be done on paper, but the lady at the tax office was so sure that this wasn't so that she wouldn't even take my name and address to send me the paper forms.

[Sunday Driver]

One of the key identifiers for an on-line declaration is your teledeclarant number which only appears on the 2042K (pre-rempli) tax return form that you automatically receive from year two onwards.  At the moment, you have no tax record in France to access on-line.

Best call into the tax office around the beginning of May, by which time the forms should be available.  You'll then have the month in which to fill them in and send them off.

 

 

[Araucaria]

Thanks Sunday Driver - the lady at the tax office did say that the paper forms would be available on 5 May, as I asked specifically. She also said that this was a later date than ever before (which I think is right - the FAQs section above says "usually April"). But as far as filing on-line is concerned, clearly she was talking through her hat.