An error may have slipped into your 2025 income declaration, and to your disadvantage. Do not panic: as every year, the tax administration offers you a second chance. THE telecorrection service will be accessible online From July 30 and will remain open until December 3. This will allow you to correct the shooting, especially if you have forgotten to declare a credit or a tax reduction.
However, particularity of this year, a judgment of the Council of State, rendered on May 9, 2025came to sow trouble. Some media and taxpayers have interpreted this decision as a questioning, for the taxpayer, of the possibility of correcting his declaration to his advantage. According to this reading, only the tax authorities could now make rectifications, and only when they are favorable to it. However, it is not.
Two thirds of the downward corrections accepted by the taxman
Contacted by Capital, there Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFIP) is to reassure taxpayers: “Decreasing corrections via telecorrection remain possible, as they have always been, and are mainly accepted. ” Thus, the decision of the Council of State does not constitute a change in tax policy but is indeed a “clarification” on telecorrection.
As in other years, the administration may refuse your request “If she has serious doubts about the merits of the correction». For example, in case “of manifest inconsistency “ or in “The absence of justification”. Understand that you will need, like the other yearsGOOD Justify your remote correction. As an indication, Bercy cites the figures for the past year: in 2024, out of 689,473 remote corrections, 424,362 downward corrections were accepted.
To correct your income declaration this year, you will have to wait until July 30. To carry out this approach, you will need to connect to your particular space and click on “Access the online correction”. You can then correct the erroneous elements. As a reminder, certain information cannot be changed, including a change in family situation or A new address.