Taxes: a computer incident forces the French to redo their declaration

The amounts paid by Health Insurance have not been taken into account in the pre-filled tax returns of some French people, forcing them to review their copy.

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Many taxpayers will have to review their tax return. In question ? A computer incident that prevented the automatic transmission of data on taxable benefits from policyholders on the pre-filled 2020 income statements. The French have been on sick leave, on maternity or paternity leave, or those victims of an accident at work or having received disability pension are concerned, as reported West France.

Since May 14, the Health Insurance has sent thousands of letters, SMS and emails to taxpayers affected by this computer bug. ” Following a national IT incident, the transmission of data on the taxable benefits of insured persons (sick leave, maternity / paternity leave, work accident or disability pension) was not automatically transferred to the pre-filled income statements. 2020, produced by the tax authorities “, Confirmed to Ouest-France the spokesperson for the Primary Health Insurance Fund. For now, the affected outbreaks are mainly located in Brittany but the CPAM says that the bug was ” national ».

400,000 French people concerned

In total, nearly 400,000 French people will therefore have to fill in these allowances online in their declaration. This is the case for 132,279 households in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and 397,119 across the Brittany region, according to the daily. For some, the corrections to be made are a bad surprise because they risk paying more taxes.

In order to make the changes, taxpayers must go to their personal space on the impots.gouv.fr portal before clicking on ” access my declaration online “. They will then have to correct the declaration previously made. According to Ouest-France, the tax services wish to reassure the French. All households affected by the computer incident will be able to modify their declaration when they receive their tax notice at the end of the summer. The period will then be three months.

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