2023-05-20 11:15:56
In this way, the government hopes to recover 1 billion euros per year in additional tax and social security revenue by 2024. An amount impossible to obtain for the investigating judge in charge of the most important cases of corruption, tax fraud or money laundering. money, Michel Claise. “It is off the mark”he says. “The SPF Finances cites amounts that are mostly enrolled and not recovered. That’s what we get back from insolvent people.”
For him, the means put in place are far too insufficient to combat tax evasion effectively. “There are two ways to fight against tax evasion: it is either administratively through finance for simple tax evasion, or through justice for organized tax evasion. But the system is lax because of a lack of resources.” Both in the FPS finances and in the judicial police, the means are sorely lacking. “We also complicated the procedures by asking the correctional judge, by the law of May 5, 2019, to replace the tax judge for the tax audit. But the correctional judges are not trained in the very complex tax law process.”
The government is therefore not inactive in the fight against tax evasion but does not put all the chances on its side either. “What is needed is to strengthen the means both at the administrative and judicial level. Then, we have to work on tax simplification so that we no longer get lost in the rules and that the door is no longer open to fraud.”
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