Thousands of erroneous requests for housing taxes on second homes have been sent, particularly to minors. This Thursday, Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire recognized “a bug”, ensuring that this will be corrected automatically.
“It is not a bug in the “Manage my real estate” platform, set up by the tax authorities this year, but “it is indeed a bug because the declarations arrived by mistake,” admitted Bruno Le Maire on France Info, without going into further detail as to the responsibilities in this affair. These taxpayers, “in general, put the names of their children in their declarations, there was undoubtedly an excess of goodwill on their part,” he argued.
“The correction will be automatic,” assures the minister
“Certainly errors were made, but in any case it was not that of the platform,” he insisted. According to Bruno Le Maire, these are “a few thousand” errors “out of several million declarations”. “The correction will be automatic, the general directorate of public finances will take care of it, taxpayers have nothing to do: when there is an error it is the administration which must correct it, this will be the case,” said -he affirmed.
Numerous cases of young people being asked for housing taxes, particularly for a “second home” which would be their parents’ home, have appeared since the start of the month. “As every year, marginal errors could be observed in these opinions,” recognized the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) in a statement.
The “Manage my real estate” campaign singled out
This is particularly the case for users who have recently moved, with the DGFiP emphasizing that notices issued in the name of minor children were “more marginal errors”. “The number of requests for DGFIP services since the beginning of November by taxpayers” remains “similar to that of last year,” she added.
On Wednesday, the national union Solidaires Finances Publiques blamed the “Manage my real estate” campaign, largely responsible according to it for the increase of “nearly 70%” in the number of secondary housing taxes claimed by the tax authorities this year. year, compared to last year. “Some families have seen a secondary housing tax arrive in the name of their son or daughter, whether he or she is 2 years old or 7 years old! », assured the union in a press release.