2023-10-10 13:33:51
The government launched a Fraud Evaluation Council on Tuesday, which brings together around thirty personalities responsible “before next summer” for putting initial figures on these phenomena. While the government has announced that it is making the fight against fraud “a priority” in a context of degraded public finances. “We need to see more clearly about the reality of fraud,” declared the Minister for Public Accounts, Thomas Cazenave, during the presentation of the case.
“Strengthen your arsenal to fight against fraud”
“If we want an effective policy to combat tax and social fraud, we need to be able to have data and be able to set objectives,” he added. A mission entrusted to the new Fraud Evaluation Council, made up of around thirty representatives of the administration, parliamentarians, international experts, economists or independent authorities. It will meet every three months, the next meeting is scheduled for December, with the objective “before the summer” of providing “a progress update”.
Among the main topics on which the government wants to move forward are the assessment of income tax and corporate tax fraud, as well as tobacco-related fraud and health insurance expenses, Thomas stressed. Cazenave. The use of random control methods is also considered necessary to help identify them, he specified. The government also plans to strengthen its arsenal to fight fraud, with new measures provided for in the finance bill (PLF) and the social security financing bill (PLFSS).
A phenomenon that is difficult to quantify
“Even beyond these financial issues, there is an issue of social cohesion, of consent to tax,” declared the minister. “We must be able to guarantee that all those who have to pay tax actually pay it. And that those who benefit from social assistance benefit from it wisely,” he said.
Very difficult to quantify, the amount of tax fraud in France is not the subject of any official estimate. The tip of the iceberg, the amounts collected by the tax authorities after tax audit reached 14.6 billion euros in 2022, or 1.2 billion more than in 2021. Following the controls carried out by the State, 10.6 billion euros were collected by the tax authorities, as much as in 2021.
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