Autoentrepreneurs who do not declare their activity and do not pay their dues are targeted.
Despite the intensification of the fight against social fraud, “black work” remains a badly controlled scourge, according to the latest observatory of hidden work published Thursday by the High Council for the Financing of Social Protection (HCFIPS). The phenomenon remains significant among autoentrepreneurs, where 17% to 26% of the contributions due would be evaded, representing a shortfall estimated between 1 and 1.5 billion euros in 2021, with a high prevalence in the construction sector. The uberization of the economy also fuels the phenomenon, even if the platforms are now obliged to declare the income of their employees to the tax authorities. Two out of three platform workers declare to Urssaf a turnover lower than the amounts of the transactions recorded by the platforms, and almost half of them declared nothing. This share even rises to 90% for VTC and 73% for home delivery.
“There is a real subject of under-reporting at…