Question 11311 — family

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Ms. Perrine Goulet draws the attention of the Minister of Action and Public Accounts to the difficulties that couples with children encounter regarding their tax returns when they divorce during the year. Since 2012, the tax arrangements for separating couples have been simplified, with the administration now considering both taxpayers as separated for the entire year. She then predicts that everyone must submit a separate declaration for the entire year, and no longer one joint declaration for the pre-separation period as well as two separate declarations for the rest of the year. Consequently, children must only be declared on the declaration of one of the spouses, even if the other parent has contributed to family life for part of the year. Thus, one of the spouses finds himself harmed fiscally, since considered wrong as single for the whole year, his tax rate increases. Furthermore, he cannot claim various social benefits from the family allowance fund and possibly from his employer, as his tax return no longer mentions dependent children. Faced with this problem, many couples are tempted, or even encouraged by their tax inspector, not to declare the separation for tax purposes until January 1st. of the following year. Faced with this situation, she would like to know if there are plans to return to the previous regulations which allowed a more honest income declaration, since it conforms to reality, for divorces during the year.

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