It is tax time for French individual taxpayers!
The French individual income tax season started on April 7, 2022 and will end on June 8, 2022. If you’re required to file French individual income tax return, the due date of your return depends on your principal residence as of December 31, 2021 and whether you paper file or web-file your tax return.
If you paper file your tax return, May 31, 2022 is the deadline to file your tax return. You should have received a hard copy of your tax Forms in the mail. The French tax administration mailed them out between April 6, 2022 andApril 25, 2022 to taxpayers who haven’t elected yet to receive electronic tax forms rather than in paper forms through the mail.
If you e-file or web-file your tax return, the due date of your tax return is as follows:
- May 24, 2022 if the first two digits of the zip code of your tax home is between 01 and 19 or your tax home is abroad,
- May 31, 2022 if the first two digits of the zip code of your tax home is between 20 and 54,
- June 8, 2022 if the first two digits of the zip code of your tax home is between 55 and 976.
Unlike in the United States of America where taxpayers may request and are automatically granted additional time to prepare and file their tax return, there are no extensions of time for French taxpayers.
We expect about 40 million households to prepare and file their French individual income tax return during the French tax season. One taxpayer out of five lives in Ile-de-France, Paris and its surroundings. French taxpayers pay EUR74 billion of individual income tax net of refund on their 2020 income with 16% of the taxpayers paying more than half of that amount.
The French individual income tax is by bracket. For the taxes due by June 8, 2022 on the income earned in 2021, there were five tax brackets: 0%, 11%, 30%, 41%, 45%. In 2021, one taxpayer out of three was taxed on their 2020 income at a marginal tax rate of 0% and one taxpayer out two was taxed at a marginal tax rate of 11%. Your tax bracket depends on your taxable income, your filing status and the number of dependents that you claimed.