TAX DATE 2022. The declarative campaign is now over. What do I risk if I declare my income late? How to do ? Manual.
[Mis à jour le 10 juin 2022 à 15h25] Forgot to complete your tax return on time? Since this Thursday, June 9, 2022, the deadline has now passed! However, it’s not too late to catch up. Be aware, however, that your delay will not be completely forgiven, the tax authorities will now proceed to sanctions. Indeed, increases will be applied to the amount of income tax you must pay this summer. Sanctions and increases proportional to your delay. Here are the penalties you will have to pay:
- 10% in the absence of formal notice
- 20% in the event of filing of the tax return within 30 days of the formal notice
- 40% in the event of non-filing of the tax return within 30 days of the formal notice
But the penalties don’t stop there. Know that if the tax authorities learn of the exercise of an illegal activity on your part, el parallel to your declared activity, an increase of 80% will be applied to you, without it being necessary to send you a formal notice. Finally, late payment interest may also be applied to you. They amount to 0,20% of the tax due per month of delay.
To declare online, you must connect to your private space with your tax number and your password. If you do not yet have a password, enter your tax number, your online access number and your reference tax income. You will find these identifiers on the tax return received in April (tax number and online access number) and on the tax notice received in August N-1 (reference tax income).
If you have forgotten your tax number or your password, on the authentication screen, the procedures allow you to recover your identifiers.
Once authenticated, select the “Declare my income” service. Your online declaration will be pre-filled with information known to the administration. All you have to do is verify your marital status, your address and the pre-filled amounts. You can correct them if necessary. Then, you will complete the other income you have received and the charges, reductions or tax credits to which you are entitled. Don’t forget to sign your online declaration for it to be taken into account.
The deadline for online taxes on impots.gouv.fr depends exclusively on your department number. In total, three zones have been determined by the tax authorities. Here are the deadlines that applied this year:
- 1time areas: le May 24, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. for departments n° 01 to 19 and residents not resident in France
- 2th areas: le May 31, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. for departments 20 to 54 including the two departments of Corsica
- 3th areas: le June 8, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. for departments n° 55 to 974/976 (Meuse, Morbihan, Moselle, Nièvre, North, Oise, Orne, Pas-de-Calais, Puy-de-Dôme, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Pyrénées-Orientales, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Rhône, Haute-Saône, Saone-et-Loire, Sarthe, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Paris, Seine-Maritime, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Deux-Sèvres, Somme, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Var, Vaucluse, Haute-Vienne, Vosges, Yonne, Territory of Belfort, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Val-d’Oise, Reunion and Mayotte).
Taxpayers who use the paper form have up to May 31, 2022, at midnight, to submit their income tax return, postmarked, regardless of their place of residence. The deadline is therefore the same for everyone. As a reminder, only taxpayers who do not have Internet access or who do not have the capacity to use digital tools can still use the paper form. Internet tax filing is now mandatory.