Gabriel Attal, Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, presented this Tuesday, May 9 the measures that the government wishes to put in place to fight against tax evasion.
Tax evasion, the government’s new big fight? This Tuesday, May 9, Gabriel Attal, Minister Delegate in charge of Public Accounts at the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, announced a series of measures to combat tax and customs fraud, the first part of the government’s roadmap for fight against all public finance fraud.
Disenfranchisement for Fraudsters?
Gabriel Attal began by recalling that over the period 2017-2021, in five years, 9 billion euros were collected on average each year following a tax audit, i.e. 45 billion euros collected in total over the first five-year period.
But the government wants to put in place measures to go even further. In a press release, he assures that he is studying the methods of creating a sanction of tax unworthiness, which would temporarily deprive convicted persons for serious breaches of their tax obligations, the right to receive tax reductions and tax credits. A proposal will be made on this subject by the government to Parliament on the occasion of the 2024 finance bill.
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But Gabriel Attal went further, explaining on the microphone of BFMTV that when you are in a case of aggravated tax evasion, with concealment of assets abroad, you are no longer in the citizenship, and therefore it seems normal that for a certain hardness, there is deprivation of the right to vote.
Among the other measures proposed, the government also wishes increase the number of personal tax audits by 25% by 2027 and this effort will focus on the largest assets. Finally, the government would like an additional sentence of work of general interest (TIG) to be voted on and then pronounced against those found guilty of tax evasion, even without a prison sentence.
In return for all these measures, it has been announced that the right to make mistakes will be extended and reinforced. Thus, in the event of an error by the tax authorities default interest will be systematically paid to taxpayers each time an error is made, even without complaint, depending on the delay in returning the undue amount.