Receive a notice from property tax For a property that we no longer own: it is possible and more common than you think. This mishap arrived twice in Camille*. The first time for theApartment inherited from his parents And that she had sold shortly after their death. Two years after this sale, Camille received a property tax notice to pay for this property that was no longer her. Rebelote a few years later, with his own apartment this time. She may have sold her, she receives, there too Two years latera property tax notice to be paid.
How is this kind of unpleasant surprise possible, is the property tax being due by the owner of the apartment on January 1 of the current year? “After the signing of thedeed of salethe notary has one month to file it at the service of the land advertisingand it is this deposit which allows the modification of the role (of the allocation, note) of the property tax», Recalls on his website Florence de Graeve, notary in Morières-les-Avignon (Vaucluse).
Property tax: more than 3,600 euros in certain departments, against barely 1,000 elsewhere
20 to 24 months late for land advertising
But “Some land advertising services may be 20 and 24 months late. As a result, the role of the property tax is only updated at the end of this period. This is why you wrongly receive a property tax notice for a good that you have sold ”explains the notary. These deadlines were particularly extended in 2020 and 2021, under the double effect of very dynamic real estate sales and land advertising services closed during the confinements imposed by the health crisis.
Do not panic, in such a case, just ask the tax administration a “graceful decreaseFrom this undue property tax, by joining the sales certificate of your property that the notary gave you when signing the authentic act. The case of a Mail at the Public Finance Center transmitter of the property tax notice, or an email via secure messaging on the Impots.gouv.fr site. After which Camille received a discharge notice from the taxman. And quickly enough so that it did not need to pay this property tax before the deadline, in which case the tax authorities would have reimbursed it. Nothing very boring in the end but a little cold sweat that she would have gladly passed!
*The first name has been changed
