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Income tax - How should a caregiver report income?
Verified 06 June 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Are you a family caregiver and are you wondering about your tax situation? You have to declare the sums received if this activity is salaried. But if you're just a family caregiver and you're compensated, it's not taxable, so you don't have to declare it. We'll tell you what you need to know.
What applies to you ?
You are a family caregiver if you help someone with a disability or a loss of independence from your community for activities of daily living.
This assistance can take several forms: care, support, administrative procedures, domestic activities, etc.
If you earn income from this activity, the tax rules depend on your status with the person you are helping.
Employee caregiver
If you are an employed caregiver of a person with a disability or a loss of independence (including your family), you must declare the income you receive for this activity.
You have to report your income to the tax department if you are resident in France or your tax domicile is in France.
You have to report your family caregiver income in the family caregiver class Wages.
The declaration shall be obligatory, regardless of your income.
So you have to fill it out even if you've received only limited resources.
You can get:
- A non-taxation notice, necessary to benefit from certain aids (e.g. housing aid),
- The refund of tax credits you are entitled to.
You must not realize only one declaration of income by tax shelter.
The income and expenses of all members of your tax household are therefore taken into account when establishing a single tax.
Tax returns via Internet is required if your principal residence is equipped with internet access and you are able to file your return online.
The 2025 income tax return for 2024 is complete.
The 2026 tax return for 2025 will begin in April 2026.
The 2025 income tax return for 2024 is complete.
The 2026 tax return for 2025 will begin in April 2026.
FYI
You have the possibility to correct certain elements of your return after it has been forwarded to the tax authorities.
Indemnified caregiver
You are a compensated caregiver, if you are not employed by the person with a disability or loss of autonomy that you are helping.
You don't have to declare your family caregiver compensation.
They are not not taxable.
You're considered a family caregiver if your link with the person you are helping is one of the following:
- Spouse
- Civil partnership Partner
- Cohabiting Partner
- Ascending
- Descendant
- Collateral up to 4e degree (brother, sister, nephew, aunt, first cousin...)
- Ascending, descending, or collateral to 4e degree of the other member of the couple of the assisted person.
If you are taking caring for a disabled child, you can also be one of the following:
- Spouse, Civil partnership partner, or cohabiting partner of the parent of the assisted child
- Any person who resides with the person being assisted and who has close and stable links with him or her.
The person you are accompanying can use the amount of their Disability Compensation Benefit (DCP) to compensate you.
FYI
Caregiver's allowance is taxable. You have to declare it (with your salaries).
Who can help me?
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