Gabriel Attal, the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts presents this Tuesday, May 9 the plan to fight against tax evasion. This provides for new sanctions. It attacks in particular the richest.
The government announced on Monday that it wanted to increase tax audits of the largest assets by 25% by the end of the five-year period and audit the hundred largest market capitalizations every two years, as part of a new plan to fight against fraud. tax.
Our priority: to make the ultra-rich and the multinationals who defraud pay what they owe, said Minister Delegate for Public Accounts Gabriel Attal in an interview with the newspaper. The worldrevealing the measures of the plan which will be officially presented on Tuesday.
A long-standing announcement and initially expected for the end of the first quarter, the presentation of this plan, one of the pillars of the government’s strategy to restore public finances, has been postponed several times.
Hardened penalties
Gabriel Attal announces that the sanctions will be toughened with regard to fraudsters, in particular for the most serious faults for which a sanction of fiscal and civic unworthiness may be pronounced, in the form of a deprivation of reduction or tax credit as well as than the right to vote for a certain period of time, said the minister.
He also announced the creation of a Bercy tax intelligence service devoted to the fight against major international fraud, staffed with around a hundred elite agents by the end of the five-year period, who will use intelligence techniques such as listening, data capture, beacon installation.
By attacking the wealthiest, the minister also insists on the idea of easing the pressure on the small taxpayer, the small boss, by massifying the regularizations rather than having recourse to controls and by introducing a remission of penalties automatic for the first error.
Another gesture towards common taxpayers: the creation of an automatic reverse penalty in favor of the taxpayer in the event of an administrative error, promised Gabriel Attal.
It will be 1,500 additional staff who will be dedicated to the fight against tax evasion by 2027, he further indicated.
Gabriel Attal 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). Regarding social fraud, we recovered 800 million euros of unpaid social security contributions on the side of Urssaf, according to him.
Measures to combat social fraud will be presented by the end of May, he specified.
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