French Tax Compliance Certificate Request (Business)

Log in to your espace professionnel (business account) at impots.gouv.fr using your DGFiP credentials or via France Connect+ (the French government's secure identity gateway). Navigate to "Consulter > Mes attestations fiscales" and select the tax compliance certificate. The DGFiP checks your VAT, IS and CFE position in real time and generates a time-stamped PDF instantly — no paper form or in-person visit is required. If any tax line has an outstanding balance not covered by a formally approved repayment plan, the certificate will flag that line as irregular.

The certificate reflects your tax position at the exact moment it is generated. French public buyers (pouvoirs adjudicateurs) set their own freshness requirements in their tender rules — most require a document less than 3 to 6 months old, and some require less than 3 months. Any subsequent tax assessment (avis de mise en recouvrement) issued after the certificate date makes the earlier document unreliable. Always generate a fresh certificate as close as possible to the bid submission deadline.

Yes. Articles L2141-7 and R2143-6 of the Code de la commande publique require the contracting authority to verify that the winning bidder is compliant with both its tax obligations (DGFiP certificate) and its social security contributions (a separate URSSAF vigilance certificate) before notifying the contract award. Public buyers connected to the API Entreprise platform can run these checks automatically, without asking the company to submit the documents manually.

Yes, provided the plan d'apurement (repayment schedule) has been formally approved in writing by your local business tax office (SIE — Service des Impôts des Entreprises) — either by a signed letter or a formal ruling (rescrit) — and you are current on all scheduled instalments. A verbal agreement or an unvalidated email exchange is not sufficient: the DGFiP only issues the certificate when a signed arrangement appears in your tax file. Formalise any agreement in writing before requesting the document.

The certificate covers all declarations and payments managed by the DGFiP: VAT (including intra-EU transactions and import VAT integrated since 2022), IS, CFE, and other business taxes handled by your SIE. It does not cover employer and employee social security contributions (cotisations sociales), which are administered by URSSAF. A separate attestation de vigilance URSSAF is always required alongside the DGFiP certificate for public contracts and subcontracting arrangements.

Yes. Through the delegation management section (gestion des habilitations) of your espace professionnel on impots.gouv.fr, you can grant access rights to your expert-comptable (French chartered accountant) or any authorised representative. Once the delegation is configured, the representative can view and download your tax certificates directly from their own DGFiP account without contacting you each time. The delegation can be revoked at any moment from the habilitations dashboard.