Minimum tax at 15%: additional revenue expected for the French State, the amount still debated

The complex global reform of corporate income tax was born, it should be remembered, from the awareness, accelerated by the financial crisis of 2008-2009, of the extent of tax evasion by multinationals , in the digital sector in particular. At a time when States were spending billions to revive the economy, it was politically unbearable to see substantial sums escaping from the tax services, thanks to learned, legal arrangements.

With regard to France, the annual loss of revenue suffered by these optimization practices would amount, according to an estimate of the Council of Compulsory Levies (CPO) dating back to 2016, between 2.6 billion and 6 billion euros. This figure is disputed by a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The United Nations University, in 2018, advanced the sum of 18 billion, or three times more. Almost the equivalent of the amount of expenditure mentioned recently by Bruno Le Maire (“more…