Before the heavy influx of connections on “impots.gouv.fr” on Monday, the government announced an additional delay to declare his / her income, up to Thursday evening.

The website of the tax has not managed to digest the huge influx of taxpayers wishing to declare their income on Monday evening – the deadline – prompting the government to grant an additional period up to Thursday night midnight.

“Impots.gouv.fr before the heavy influx of connections last moments knows few difficulties. So I asked [the general directorate of public finances] to leave within 48 hours + (Thursday midnight) to report its income,” wrote the minister of the Action and of the public Accounts Gérald Darmanin on his Twitter account with the hashtags #administrationbienveillante.

“there has been a lot of connections tonight, more than four million of our compatriots who are attached if I dare say, at the last moment to complete their tax return form”, said Gérald Darmanin on Franceinfo.

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the website of The tax administration is working again normally on Tuesday morning, said the tax administration. “Our teams worked throughout the night, the service is now fully restored,” said Maryvonne The Brignonen, head of tax at source at the general Directorate of public finances, on the waves of the same radio.

“Long weekend sunny” and “procrastination”

Gérald Darmanin has attributed the influx of outstanding and late, 24 hours of the initial deadline, to “the effect of this long sunny weekend” of the Climb, but also “the increase in the number of people who télédéclarent” and “probably a bit of procrastination”.

“The truth is that more than 3 million people connecting at the same time, of course this is a bit of the ransom of the glory and ease of the tax declaration by Internet : it’s bugue,” said Gérald Darmanin. It was suggested that the website of the tax administration had responded to this large number of simultaneous requests by interpreting it as an attack computer.

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“When there are millions of connections in a few minutes, this site protects itself” by refusing new connections, he explained, welcoming the fact that the administration has “not lost the tax data” on taxpayers during this incident.

Tuesday night midnight until then was the due date of income tax return online for residents of the counties in the number 50 to those overseas, including, therefore, the departments in densely populated Ile-de-France.

Declarations “paper” discouraged

Before that, two other time frames have expired since may 21, and these “first two waves went very well”, according to the minister. The statement “paper” classic, now in the minority, is supposed to have been sent before the 16th of may.

Among the new features of campaign reporting in 2019, was in fact the generalization of the statement in line : fans of the paper version could, in theory, a fine of 15 euros if they still refused to send their return by mail. Taxpayers whose principal residence is not connected to the internet or who are unable to perform this approach could continue to use the paper, by reporting their situation to the administration.

38.3 million of tax households concerned by the statement

This “bug” of Monday evening tarnishes a positive balance for Bercy since the implementation of the levy of the tax at the source, the beginning of 2019, which was held globally without a hitch. “There is necessarily a small problem that we will manage to solve (…) we will obviously do things to make sure it doesn happen again,” promised Gerald Darmanin.

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“It is all the more true that next year, we will put an end to a part of the tax return, since thanks to the tax at the source, 11 million tax households will no longer have to fill in tax returns”, he added.

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The minister nevertheless warned the taxpayers that expect to new the last time to bring their income to the administration : “Try not to all declare Thursday, in the evening, because otherwise there is a risk of having almost the same problem”.