Income tax - What is the tax notice used for?
Verified 01 January 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Your opinion justifies your income with banks and administrations.
If you are tax-free, it entitles you to certain social rights.
Your tax notice also shows your average tax rate.
This is the rate used for your withholding tax.
Starting in 2023, your tax notice will also show your marginal tax rate.
That's the rate at which you're taxed for the highest income bracket.
If you file online, you can get a status report as soon as you file your tax return.
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You declare online
If you reported your income online, you can get a income tax status report as soon as your statement is complete.
The status notice can be used without waiting to receive thetax advice.
In the summer following your tax return, you receive a income tax notice.
If you are not taxable, you receive a status report.
Warning
thenotice of non-taxation no longer exists. The status report replaces it.
L'notice of assessment or situation is sent to you by mail.
If you have not received it, you can get it in your particular space on the website impots.gouv.fr.
You are not declaring online
In the summer following your tax return, you receive a income tax notice.
If you are not taxable, you receive a status report.
L'notice of assessment or situation is sent to you by mail.
If you have not received it, you can get it in your particular space on the website impots.gouv.fr.
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Department in charge of taxes (treasury, tax department...)
- General Tax Code: Articles 170 to 175aInformation specified in the tax notice
- Tax procedures book: Article L253Information specified in the tax notice
- Law No. 2022-1499 of 1 December 2022 amending finance for 2022Indication of the average and marginal tax brackets
- Taxes: access your Special Space
Online service
- 2023 Simulator: 2022 Income Tax
Simulator
- 2022 Online Income Tax Return 2021
Online service
- Income Tax Return (Paper)
Form
- Income tax: return and reportable incomeService-Public.fr
- Income tax: deductions, reductions and tax creditsService-Public.fr
- Income Tax - Annual Income Tax ReturnService-Public.fr
- Tax SiteMinistry of Finance
- 2022 Practice Brochure - 2021 Income Tax ReturnMinistry of Finance
- Income tax: information leafletsMinistry of Finance
- What is the Income Tax Reporting Status Notice (Asdir)?Ministry of Finance