2023-05-09 08:44:25
That « ultra-riches » and tax evading multinationals pay “what they owe” to the State: the government’s long-promised plan to combat tax evasion tightens controls and sanctions against them while reducing “the pressure on the small taxpayer”.
Before an official presentation on Tuesday May 9, the delegate minister in charge of public accounts, Gabriel Attal, reserved for theMonde the main measures of this plan, which aims to respond to the “demand for justice” formulated by the French, according to him.
This plan provides for a 25% increase in tax audits “on large assets” by the end of the five-year term. There are also plans for tax audits every two years for the 100 largest market capitalisations; to date, there was no specific rhythm set for large groups, the ministry said.
A penalty of “fiscal indignity”
As for social fraud, the sums of which are currently recovered are much lower, the government will present its reform “by the end of the month” of May, the minister said last week.
Bercy intends to toughen the sanctions against fraudsters and, “for the most serious faults” (such as concealment of assets abroad) is considering a “penalty of fiscal and civic indignity”in the form of a loss of tax reduction or credit as well as the right to vote “for a certain period”to have you Gabriel Attal.
These proposals will however have to go through the Council of State which will have to gauge their constitutionality, he conceded. The Minister also assures that “1,500 additional staff” Build teams fighting tax evasion by 2027.
Barrage on the far right
A new tax intelligence service in Bercy, with a hundred “elite agents” will be dedicated, by the end of the five-year term, to the fight against major international fraud, the minister again promised.
Tracfin, Bercy’s financial intelligence unit, cannot use tax evasion intelligence techniques, explains the ministry, “except when the case relates to organized crime”. The new service will be able to use “eavesdropping, data capture, beaconing” to find information “in non-cooperative states or territories” like Panama or the Bahamas.
“Our priority: to make the ultra-rich and the multinationals who defraud pay what they owe,” said Gabriel Attal. By attacking the wealthiest, the Minister insists at the same time on the idea of“relieve the pressure on the small taxpayer, the small boss, by massifying” regularizations rather than resorting to controls and by establishing “an automatic penalty waiver for the first error”.
Another gesture towards taxpayers in general: the creation of a “automatic reverse penalty in favor of the taxpayer in the event of an administrative error”said Gabriel Attal.
In France, “10% of taxpayers pay 70% of income tax”recalled the minister for whom the fraud “of the most powerful is unforgivable”. “I’m not saying they cheat more, but when it does, the amounts are significant”underlined the minister.
An unencrypted fraud
The latter recalled last week that in terms of tax evasion, “Last year we had 14.6 billion euros in collections notified by the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFip)”. And regarding social fraud, “we recovered 800 million euros in unpaid social security contributions from Urssaf”he had quantified.
The government is attacking a phenomenon that is not the subject of any official estimate: “Some speak of 30 billion, others of 100! » admits Gabriel Attal. But tax evasion potentially represents several billions or tens of billions to be recovered by the State.
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