French tax return 2021 : the deadlines

French tax return 2021 : Deadlines for 2022

The declaration platform will open on April 7, 2022.

The deadlines are as follows:

• For declarations via paper form: Thursday, May 19, 2022, postmarked.
• For online declarations:
  • Zone 1 (departments 01 to 19 and taxpayers not resident in France): Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 11:59 pm.
  • Zone 2 (departments 20 to 54): Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 11:59 pm.
  • Zone 3 (departments 55 to 976): Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 11:59 pm.

The brackets of the progressive scale used to calculate income tax are revalued by 1.4% as of January 1, 2022.

As stated in Article 2 of the Finance Act for 2022, taxpayers declaring an income of more than €10,225 in 2021 will be liable for income tax for that year (instead of a threshold of €10,084 in 2021).

French tax return 2021: Scale and tax rates

The Article 197 of the French General Tax Code sets the minimum tax threshold and the applicable tax brackets for the 2022 income tax in France.

The 2022 Schedule of Income Tax is as follows:

How is income tax calculated ?

According to the Article 193 of the French General Tax Code, the tax amount is calculated in 3 steps, applied to the net taxable income of the taxpayer’s household:

• Division of the income by the number of shares included in the household. The taxpayer’s household is composed of themself, their spouse or PACS partner, as well as people considered as being dependent on them or attached to their household by option. The couple of taxpayers represents 2 shares, to which are added the dependents’ half and full shares.
• Application of the progressive scale of tax per bracket to this result.
• Multiplication of this amount by the number of shares in order to obtain the total tax amount of the household.