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Chapter one: Payment of tax

Article 1657 of the French General Tax Code

1. The assessment bases for direct taxes are rounded to the nearest euro; the fraction of a euro equal to 0.50 is counted as 1. The bases for property tax and council tax on second homes and other furnished premises not used as the main dwelling, as well as those for the corresponding ancillary taxes, are rounded in accordance with the procedures defined in the first paragraph. The rates applicable…

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Article 1658 of the French General Tax Code

Direct taxes and assimilated taxes are collected by virtue of either rolls made enforceable by order of the director general of public finance or the prefect, or notices of assessment. For the application of the procedure for collection by way of rolls provided for in the first paragraph, the representative of the State in the department may delegate his powers to category A agents placed under the authority of departmental…

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Article 1659 of the French General Tax Code

The date of assessment of the rolls is set by the authority competent to approve them pursuant to article 1658. This date is indicated on the tax roll and on the tax notices issued to the taxpayers. When errors of dispatch are noted in the tax rolls, a statement of these errors is drawn up by the departmental director of public finance and approved under the same conditions as the…

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Article 1663 of the French General Tax Code

1. The direct taxes, products and assimilated taxes, referred to in the present code, are payable thirty days after the date on which the assessment is levied. 2. Moving outside the jurisdiction of the department responsible for collection, unless the taxpayer has provided proof of his new address, and a voluntary or forced sale will result in the tax being payable immediately in full, as soon as the tax assessment…

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Article 1663 bis of the French General Tax Code

When the taxpayer taxed under the conditions of 1 of article 202 becomes, within a period of three months from the date of cessation of activity, a partner in a liberal practice company mentioned in Article 2 of Law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of the liberal professions subject to legislative or regulatory status or whose title is protected or…

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Article 1663 B of the French General Tax Code

1. After deducting tax reductions and credits, levies, deductions at source and instalments, the balance of the income tax and other taxes appearing on the same roll item is recovered under the conditions set by articles 1663 and 1730. 2. In the absence of an option to the contrary, this balance is deducted by the tax authorities under the conditions set out in article 1680 A. 3. Notwithstanding articles 1663…

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Article 1663 C of the French General Tax Code

1. The advance payment calculated by the tax authorities under the conditions set out in Article 204 E is paid in twelfths no later than the 15th of each month of the year, in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 1680 A. 2. At the taxpayer’s option, the advance payment is paid in quarters no later than 15 February, 15 May, 15 August and 15 November. The option…

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Article 1665 bis of the French General Tax Code

Taxpayers shall receive, no later than 1st March of the year in which the tax relating to the previous year’s income is settled, an advance payment on the amount of the tax benefits provided for in article 199 quater C, to b to e of 2 of article 199 undecies A as well as Articles 199 quindecies, 199 sexdecies, 199 sexvicies, 199 septvicies, 199 novovicies, 199 tricies, 200 and 200…

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