Does it have an effect “Panama papers” on regularization at Bercy? – The world

This is the price of success “Panama papers.” According to Europe 1 information that the Department of Finance has confirmed to World , after revelations about offshore companies established in Panama by Mossack Fonseca, the tax exiles cell regulation has received so much calls in recent days that it will be forced to strengthen his team, which should increase from 159 to 209 agents from June

The “Panama papers’ three-point

• Le Monde and 108 other newsrooms in 76 countries, coordinated by the International Consortium of investigative journalists (ICIJ), had access to a mass of new information that cast a harsh light on the opaque world of offshore finance and tax havens.
• 11.5 million files from the archives of the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, specialist domiciliation of offshore companies between 1977 and 2015. It’s the biggest leak of information never exploited by the media.
• “Panama papers” reveal that in addition to thousands of anonymous numerous heads of State, billionaires, big names in sports, celebrities or personalities within the scope of international sanctions have used offshore arrangements to conceal their assets

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However, Bercy said that this increase staffing had been decided before the release of “Panama papers,” these revelations concerning offshore companies created by the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca.

another figure cited by Europe 1: if the number of calls to the cell exploded, only three cases have been completed yet. This may seem low but this is due to several factors, according to Bercy. On the one hand, only a week has passed since the publication of “Panama papers.” Moreover, it takes time to build his case: from Cazeneuve circular in June 2013, anonymous records are no longer accepted, whereas before we could report without revealing his identity to get an estimate of penalties would result.

All concerned by a regularization file must therefore agree (even if it is allowed to form a kind of prédossier including only the name customer and the bank, argued for an already initiated procedure). Because according to our calculations, a company is established in average 3 to 4 people. Interviews with thirty tax evaders show that it is in these cases of family stories of inheritance and succession

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an inflation already committed workforce

how are today the means of regulation? The numbers that are loaded experiencing inflation to measure the success of the “drunk tank”, set up in 2009 by the Finance Minister, Eric Woerth, to regularize the situation of tax evaders.

It should be noted that this cell only treats the files presented on the basis of voluntary approaches. Others are treated by other services and the treasury, in fine , by justice.

the 2015 balance sheet that cell, which responds to the nickname of Entry processing Service corrective (PADS), says in effect doubling the number of inspectors. Staffing was increased to 56 inspectors in 2015, while the operation was originally imagined with twenty people. If we add the coaching and support staff, 88 people were assigned to STDR

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Since June 2015, seven interregional centers were created in Paris, Vanves, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Lyon and Marseille, to treat lower folders 600 000 .

What is the effect of “Panama papers”?

As we have repeatedly announced, Le Monde provide any personal information on french names appearing in “Panama papers.” The majority of Mossack Fonseca customers consists of anonymous: for French addresses, it is 95% of the

But also the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (. ICIJ), who coordinated the investigation, announced that it would publish a list of all the names of established companies and those of their legal owners end May Ll’ICIJ and WikiLeaks partner media had used the same method when revelations so-called “Cablegate” the US diplomatic cables, as well as on previous revelations “Offshore Leaks” to provide the means to continue the investigation a broader level as the consortium

“legal owners” of offshore companies are often nominees but not always. very few French “means” to have taken the precaution of hiding behind such a screen. They most often appear as beneficiaries of the company established for themselves and their families. Several of them have contacted Le Monde to indicate that they had started a regularization procedure

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