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From year to year the fight against fraud devices – fiscal and social – are strengthened and perfected. The results follow, which, in times of budget scarcity, is not displeasing to the ministers of public accounts. Realizing, Tuesday, June 23, accompanied by several of their colleagues in government, the record of the fight against fraud in 2014, the finance minister, Michel Sapin, and the Secretary of State for the Budget, Christian Eckert, have certainly reaffirmed that it is “an issue of justice and equality before public burdens.” They do not underestimate, however, the role of “lever for recovery of public finance “ it is. a useful complement of resources when it comes to Brussels to present a revised copy
So, in 2014, the tax audit operations have rectify € 15.3 billion rights and apply nearly 4 billion euros in penalties for a total of 19.3 billion euros, up 7% from that of 2013 (18 billion euros). Of this, however, only € 10.4 billion actually returned into the coffers of the state, because of the collection times, legal recourse or material difficulties which the tax administration faces is to recover amounts owed.
This total includes the amounts recovered by the processing service amending statements (PADS), established in June 2013 which welcomes applications for the regularization of undeclared assets held abroad. Over 40,000 applications have been received and, in 2014, the PADS has recovered more than $ 1.9 billion in additional tax revenue. On the performance target set at 2.7 billion euros in 2015, 1.6 billion euros had already been recovered as of 1 st June
The fight against VAT fraud is particularly important now, given its scale, the tax administration assesses around 10 billion euros. New legislation was adopted as part of the Amending Finance Act of 29 December 2014. The arsenal of sanctions will be strengthened further.
Fraud rectified by the social security bodies in 2014 reached meanwhile 852.6 million euros, an increase of 34% from 2013 (636.1 million) fraud on contributions and illegal employment totaled 427.6 million euros, up 38.5% compared to 2013, the benefit to 425 million euros (+ 29.9%).
“These figures are positive , says Mr Sapin. This proves that mobilization works the exchange of information between departments are multiplying, targeting inspections spreads. “ The National Committee for the fight against fraud, met on Tuesday, intends to develop during the next year a plan to fight against terrorism financing, strengthening the transparency and traceability of financial movements, make the fight against illegal work, particularly fraud detachment, a priority.
The development of detached work becomes indeed a major challenge, both politically and economically. In 2013, according to labor inspection, 210,000 posted workers were counted, against 100,000 in 2009, a figure that suggests the magnitude of underreporting. According to the Court of Auditors, fraud detachment would be a shortfall of 380 million. Labour Minister, François Rebsamen, announced about it before the national fight against fraud Committee (CNLF) that prefects must conduct each month from the end of September 1000 operations awareness and control against fraud at work detached.
Several measures have already been adopted in the framework of the law against unfair social competition of 10 July 2014. New provisions are more stringent, announced on June 9 by Manuel Valls, were introduced in Bill “Macron” being discussed in Parliament. The controls will be better targeted and strengthened administrative penalties. Failure to submit the required documents will result in a fine of 2,000 euros per employee on secondment, suspension of the activity may be pronounced, and especially the principals will be held jointly liable for infringements committed by their subcontractors.
“Year after year, the fight against fraud extends to all areas” , welcomed Mr Sapin. The results of the mobilization against the fraud committed also reveal, alas, the extent of its development.
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