Usually not very favorable to sectoral bonuses in the public service, the deputies of Nupes suggested on Wednesday to boost the remuneration of agents responsible for the fight against tax evasion, to improve the attractiveness of these professions and recover more silver.
The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office or the investigation services find themselves in great difficulty recruiting experts because they are in competition with consulting firms or tax lawyers who offer staggering salaries that the public service absolutely cannot keep up with, regretted the deputy Charlotte Leduc (LFI, Moselle) during a press conference at the National Assembly.
In a report on tax evasion that it has just published, it therefore proposes setting up possibilities for derogations from the civil service salary scales, so as to attract high-skilled profiles in the tax, legal and computer science.
A departure from the logic of general increases for the 5.7 million public officials traditionally supported by the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), which has joined the report.
This measure would nevertheless be justified by the concern to avoid back and forth between these services and private practices, argues Charlotte Leduc.
Sometimes people start their career in the investigation and control services (tax, editor’s note) and then move on to tax firms. It still poses a problem of security, confidentiality and transfer of skills, she argues.
The report also proposes to better remunerate tax advisors. At present, these persons outside the tax administration can be rewarded by the public authorities in exchange for information allowing the discovery of a breach of international tax rules, but this reward is not systematic.
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Among the 34 recommendations of the Leduc report are also a moratorium on job cuts in tax audit and the hiring of 4,000 agents by 2027, the establishment or generalization of random tax audits by the General Directorate of Public Finances or the publication each year of an evaluation of the amounts of tax evasion.
In general, the deputy believes that the State is not up to the challenge in terms of the fight against tax evasion.
According to the report, the amounts recovered by the State between 2012 and 2021 show relative stability, around 10 billion euros annually.