French social benefits paid to non-European bank accounts, which will cease in 2023 as part of the fight against fraud, are valued at 150 million euros over five years, said Sunday the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal.
Gabriel Attal announces in the columns of Parisian that it will present a specific plan on tax and social fraud at the beginning of 2023. From next year, we will automatically be able to withdraw the VAT number of a fraudulent company. And we are making progress on the site of electronic invoicing, which will be implemented from July 2024 for large companies and in the following years for the others, indicates the minister.
INSEE assesses VAT fraud at around 20 billion euros per year, explains Gabriel Attal. He considers that if there has been progress on social fraud, this still represents several billion euros.
The Minister recalls that from July 1, 2023, allowances (excluding pensions) can no longer be paid into non-European bank accounts. It gives for the first time a figure of these payments, for which there are sometimes doubts about the real existence of the beneficiary, which represent 150 million euros over five years.
The benefits covered include the ASPA (solidarity allowance for the elderly), family benefits, the RSA and the supplementary disability allowance.
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Non-European accounts will be concerned, i.e. outside the SEPA zone which includes the member countries of the European Union, the member countries of the European Economic Area, as well as Switzerland, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican. .
The question of fraud in social security benefits which are paid to people who do not reside in our territory regularly feeds a certain number of studies, articles, and rightly scandalizes our fellow citizens, had launched the minister last October, considering that to cheat is simply to steal.
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