“It will not be enough” to clean up public finances, warns Le Maire

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2023-05-09 16:12:46


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“It is absolutely essential to fight more forcefully against tax evasion and social fraud, we will have the opportunity to come back to this with Gabriel Attal”, noted the Minister of the Economy.

«Make the ultra-rich and the multinationals pay what they owe“: this is the objective of the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, who presents this Tuesday a plan to fight against tax evasion. An initiative hailed on France Culture by his boss at Bercy, the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, Bruno Le Maire. “That we guarantee that everyone pays their taxes well, with what we launched with Gabriel Attal […], Yes. That we avoid tax optimization […]once again, three times yes“, he said, defending the “justice fiscale».

But if he judgedabsolutely essential to fight more forcefully against tax evasion and social fraud“, he acknowledged that the measures announced by the Minister of Public Accounts “it is [suffiraient] notto replenish state accounts on their own. “I see that some in the opposition are saying that we can fund all of our programs by fighting tax evasion. No, that won’t be enough“, he estimated. “It is absolutely essential to fight more forcefully against tax evasion and social fraud, we will have the opportunity to come back to this with Gabriel Attal“, he then added.


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“Necessary for social cohesion”

The plan to fight against tax evasion, which will be doubled in the coming weeks by a plan to fight against social fraud, is proving “necessary for social cohesion, for the efficiency of tax collection and for the feeling of justice”, said the Minister of the Economy. The fact remains that these measures are one of the pillars of the government’s strategy to restore public finances.

The Minister of Public Accounts has declared that he wants to increase by 25% the tax audits of “biggest assets“by the end of the five-year term and control”every two years» the hundred largest market capitalizations. Bruno Le Maire welcomed in particular the creation of a tax intelligence service in Bercy dedicated to the fight against major international fraud, with around a hundred “elite agentsby the end of the five-year period, which will use intelligence techniques such aseavesdropping, data capture, laying beacons». “A first”according to him.


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