For property owners, autumn is never a favorable season… It is synonymous with paying local taxes, in particular. This year, the tax administration has set the deadline for payment of property tax at midnight on Sunday October 20. This date applies to a majority of households: namely, those with a local tax amount greater than 300 euros.
If this is your case, Bercy offers you few different ways to pay your property tax. It is possible to pay directly on the Internet via the impots.gouv.fr website. “It is also possible to pay tax via the “Impots.gouv” application (downloadable from PlayStore and the App Store) from the “Pay my taxes” tab”recalls the Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Dila). If you have activated the payment at maturity or the monthly payment, you don’t have to do anything, it’s automatic. The only good news is that the Public Treasury will not debit bank accounts from October 20, but five days later, on Friday October 25.
Another scenario: a small amount of property tax to pay, less than 300 euros. In this case, pay attention to the payment deadline! This is imminent: Bercy leaves you until this Tuesday, October 15 at midnight.
In this case, the taxpayer benefits from a wide range of possibilities to pay his local tax. By cash – with your tax notice, it is possible to pay at its public finance center or at its partner tobacconist in Bercy -; by check – made payable to the Public Treasury and accompanied by the TIPSEPA included in your tax notice, not to be « signer », « coller »is “staple”specifies Bercy -; or by TIP SEPA – simply date it, sign it and return it to your public finance center whose address is written on it. The administration finally offers one last possibility: by transfer. But this is more tedious, because you have to contact your public finance center to obtain your bank details.
Property tax: despite spectacular increases in 2024, rates remain stable on average
If it is possible to hesitate about the method of payment, there is no doubt about the amount of the invoice! And for good reason, property tax notices have been available online since August 28 on impots.gouv.fr. Taxpayers who did not opt for dematerialization received their notice by mail over a period between September 23 and October 9.
A weak revaluation of the cadastral bases
France’s budgetary situation is very deteriorated this year. In this context, the government is asking communities to make 5 billion euros in savings in 2025. So should we be worried about next year’s property tax bill? If the tax strategies of municipal councils will be scrutinized in the spring, one thing is already certain for households: the national revaluation of cadastral bases will be much lower than the +3.9% applied on January 1, 2024.
In its economic report for the month of October, INSEE indicates that the Harmonized Consumer Price Index (HICP) – used for the revaluation of cadastral rental values - reached +1.5%, over one year, in september. A figure which relegates to the rank of bad memories the +7.1% which hit property owners hard in 2023.
