Declarations de revenus

So after two visits to the tax office it was finally time to fill in my first tax return in France.

You have to wait til May after the first year you’ve been here but getting appointments at the tax office is hard. So I took a phone appointment and a helpful woman gave emailed me the forms I needed to fill in and with some directions.

But there are a lot of forms.

There are also lots of hard words to understand. Foncier, hébergement, viagères.

But with help from my French teacher and my colleague Javi – who warned me that if I didn’t tell them about my British bank accounts I would be fined €1500 per account.

But that meant another form to fill in – actually another three forms.

Javier also showed me where I needed to write:

Le journalisme ayant été en 2022 mon activité principale, régulière et rétribuée, j’ai déduit 7.650 euros des salaires imposables, tirés de ma profession, au titre de l’allocation pour frais d’emploi des journalistes

Which has hopefully saved me a few quid.

Then it was off to the tax office to drop it off.