After three postponements, the deadline for declaring real estate to the tax authorities is maintained at midnight Thursday, taxpayers risking failing to be asked for the housing tax for their main residence now exempt, indicated the tax services to the France Media Agency. “The occupancy declarations recorded on August 10 will make it possible to ensure this fall the benefit of the housing tax exemption on the main residence, and to reserve the taxation only for secondary residences and vacant premises”, assured the General Directorate of Public Finance (DGFiP).
“For those who have not completed it by this date, the challenge is simply that beyond that, we cannot guarantee automatic integration in the 2023 taxation,” said this department attached to the Ministry of Public Accounts. The DGFiP adds that “taxpayers who would be faced with tax errors in the fall will still be able to seize the services to correct their situation and their taxation” and “that no penalty will be applied this year”.
“At the end of the campaign, it appears that more than 81% of the residential premises of small owners have had their occupancy status validated, which is a result in line with expectations for a new procedure”, specifies- she. On the tax site, each owner must indicate for each of his properties his situation: if it is empty, in what capacity he occupies it himself or decline the identity of a possible tenant.
The deadline for filing this new declaration had been postponed three times: first set for the end of June, it had been extended until July 31, then to August 1 due to a problem accessing the tax website. before finally being set for August 10.
“These ten additional days have enabled more than 400,000 late owners to validate their occupancy status and 1.16 million additional premises have been declared”, according to the DGFiP. This specifies that a new temporary difficulty in accessing the tax website on Wednesday was not due to “overcrowding” but to “technical maintenance”.
The two main unions of the DGFiP, Solidaires Public Finances and the CGT Public Finances, had respectively denounced “problems of unpreparedness” and “an announced fiasco” for the implementation of this new declaration.
