Housing taxes claimed from children: the “bug” will be corrected automatically

2023-11-23 13:46:43

The Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, recognizes this Thursday “a bug” which will be corrected automatically. Thousands of erroneous requests for housing taxes on second homes, particularly to minors, have been sent recently.

“It is not a bug in the “Manage my real estate” platform, set up by the tax authorities this year, but “it is indeed a bug because the declarations arrived by mistake”, he admits on franceinfo, without going into further detail regarding responsibilities in this matter. These taxpayers, “in general, put the names of their children in their declarations, there was undoubtedly an excess of goodwill on their part,” he argued.

???? Thousands of minors received a letter from the Tax Office to pay housing tax ➡️ “It’s a bug, the declarations arrived by mistake. The correction will be automatic, taxpayers do not have to do anything,” declares Bruno Le Maire. #8h30franceinfo pic.twitter.com/SqA0b76SFq

— franceinfo (@franceinfo) November 23, 2023

“Certainly errors were made, but in any case it was not that of the platform,” he insisted. According to him, these are “a few thousand” errors “out of several million declarations”. “The correction will be automatic, the general directorate of public finances will take care of it, taxpayers have nothing to do: when there is an error it is the administration which must correct it, this will be the case,” said -he affirmed.

“All digital” called into question

Numerous cases of young people being asked for housing taxes, particularly for a “second home” which would be their parents’ home, have appeared since the start of the month. On Wednesday, the national union Solidaires Finances Publiques blamed the “Manage my real estate” campaign, largely responsible according to it for the increase of “nearly 70%” in the number of secondary housing taxes claimed by the tax authorities this year. year, compared to last year.

“Some families have seen a secondary housing tax arrive in the name of their son or daughter, whether he or she is 2 years old or 7 years old! », assured the union in a press release. Owners, from the same source, would also have received a council tax notice for elements such as a balcony.

Solidaires Finances Publiques, which is calling for more jobs, estimated on this occasion that “the ideological dogmatism marked by the dominant thought that digital technology can and must solve everything must stop”.