Direction générale des Finances publiques (DGFiP)

Offers French tax support for business operations and innovation planning compliance.

Direction générale des Finances publiques (DGFiP) is France's national tax authority, known as DGFiP, and it sits inside the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Energy Sovereignty. Created in 2008 from the merger of the former tax and public-accounting directorates, it is the largest network administration in that ministry and serves every French territory.

For innovation-active companies, DGFiP administers the Crédit d'Impôt Recherche, Crédit d'Impôt Innovation, and Jeune Entreprise Innovante regimes. These are tax credits and tax exemptions, not cash grants. They reduce income-tax liability based on qualifying research or innovation spending, with claims made through the annual return, including Form 2069-A-SD.

DGFiP is the right public body for statutory tax relief, not for a judged funding competition. The practical fit is a company with eligible R&D or innovation spend that can document its claim and absorb the compliance process. Competitive R&D grants in France sit elsewhere; DGFiP's role is tax administration.