I just came back from a wonderful hike and was greeted by my 2022 Taxe Fonciere bill
Last December I had an email exchange with someone from the local tax office and raised two points that I understood were reasons why my 2021 appeared too high, 1)the swimming pool that I have is currently unusable and b)the house area that they based the calculation on is higher than the actual area. Looking at today’s bill it seems they haven’t taken either of these points into account. I will visit the tax office tomorrow, but I assume they are able to issue revised bills if errors - has anyone had any experience of this??
And secondly, how do I set up a direct debit if I choose to pay monthly? And does this cost more than paying in one hit, or is it the same value?
Ah ok, so the bill I’ve just received I’ll have to pay in full then - will take a look at the impots website, which I haven’t actually been onto yet, so that’ll be a another first
If you pay on line (as we have just done) by providing your French Bank details (IBAN and account name) and in full, the date for payment will be extended by 10 days…
Worth remembering for next year if you wish to save up the payments in the meantime in advance of next years’ bill… Set up a Livret A account (or similar) and you will get interest on the savings and draw the funds to your main bank account when the bill becomes due.
Well, I’ve written to the tax office and shared photos as I was advised to do previously, so fingers crossed. I said that if they wanted to visit to inspect they are more than welcome.
I agree Graham but thought as letsmile seems so confident thought I would look at it, I also need to find out if it’s been declared anyway as we were told qite a lot of porkies at the time we bought the house!
Anyone know if there is an easy way to do this? Looked at the TF but cannot see anything,
regards
What I did was complete the form H1 from the local tax office, then declare what you have at the property. Very simple to complete and ensures you are fully legit
The simple answer is you don’t - it’s how the system works.
Once you have all your numbers you set up your impots account. You can then arrange to pay next years by direct debit - you pay in advance not arrears using the monthly system.
Im IN the system! What I did NOT realise is that when I ask to pay by direct debit (for the NEXT year) that the actual number they require is the number (i.e. our Tax No) that I have already entered in order to get into the system!!!
I (wrongly?) assumed that the “number” they wanted me to input was an “Invoice” number of the TF !!! I will now go back in and put our Tax No. (although we have 2 so I presume (as always) that it will be my husband’s Tax No that I put in!) How strange!
Not really strange if you think about it. There are two Déclarants typically in a foyer (there may be more of course) and each is entitled to their own privacy hence being given their own tax reference or TIN.
No different to bank accounts really. Our French bank accounts are entitled M ou Mme and there are accounts specific to my wife (Livret A, LDD, LEP for example) and statements for her are addressed separately.
But yes, to answer your specific question, in normal circumstances you would use the number for the 1st déclarant if that is the only online account you have set up.
