Please note, the taxman has set up a novelty on the income tax return. This field will have to be completed under penalty of losing money.
The tax return to taxes is already approaching. A scary moment for many taxpayers, between the fear of poorly filling the dozens and dozens of boxes and the fear of receiving a tax recovery in several months. An anxiety exacerbated by the changes that occur from year to year. And 2025 will not escape the rule.
A new obligation has been added in the next income declaration. It concerns 4.5 million French people and the latter will have to take care to fill it, under penalty of paying much more taxes than expected.
Today, when you use a nanny at your home, an assistant for tutoring a gardener or aid to the elderly or disabled, expenses are to be indicated in his tax return. The amount must be noted in box 7DB, “tax credit for the employment of an employee at home.” Thanks to this device, half of the sum is deduced from taxes.
So far, this was only declarative. Each taxpayer could note the amount he wanted. The taxman did not systematically carry out a check. It was simply compulsory to keep the supporting documents (mainly invoices) of these expenses if the taxes were to check the declaration.
Now the rule has changed. From the tax declaration of April 2025, the French who use this system will have a new obligation. It will now be imperative to detail, in a box, the nature of the organization, the person or the company that has been remunerated, as well as the details of the services provided, while keeping the supporting documents at home.
This novelty is not to be taken lightly. Indeed, the law provides that the tax credit now applies only “subject” to the taxpayer to submits to this new obligation. Otherwise, he will not be able to benefit from the 50% tax reduction. The sum paid to the taxman will therefore be higher. In addition, he could expose himself to a fine of taxes so as not to have submitted to declarative rules.