Small savings foolishly lost. The 2022 tax return opened this Thursday, April 13 and you have between six to eight weeks to complete it, depending on the department where your main residence is located. Depending on your family or professional situation, you can benefit from specific allowances or reductions. Did you know ? Some are also possible depending on your age!

As the tax site explains, “taxpayers over the age of sixty-five and disabled people of modest means can benefit, for the calculation of tax, from an abatement on taxable income”. Here is who can benefit from it, according to article 157 bis of the general tax code.

For this second point, these are people who hold:

Please note, as the tax site specifies, this allowance “can only benefit people whose total income is taken into account for the calculation of taxable income in France, not those who, being domiciled abroad for tax purposes , are taxable in France only their income from French sources”.

Like any deduction, it also depends on your overall net income. Can you benefit from it in 2023?

The amount of the allowance you can benefit from depends of course on your overall net income. The latter is obtained after deduction “deficits of previous years and expenses of global income”, explains the tax site. “It does not take into account either capital gains taxed with income tax at a proportional rate or income subject to a withholding tax”, adds the site.

For the year 2023, the overall net income of your tax household must not exceed 26,400 euros. Can you benefit from this discount? Here’s what you need to do so you don’t miss out.

If you are over 65 and have the necessary income conditions, you have nothing to do: the allowance for seniors will be automatic. No request or checkbox on your tax return!

If your overall net income is less than or equal to 16,410 euros, the allowance amounts to:

If your overall net income is between 16,410 euros and 26,400 euros, the allowance amounts to: