The Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal announces in the columns of the Parisian that it will present “at the beginning of 2023 a specific plan on tax and social fraud”.
On the business side, “starting next year, we will be able to automatically withdraw the VAT number of a fraudulent company. And we are making progress on the electronic invoicing site, which will be implemented as of July 2024 for large companies and in the following years for others”, indicates the minister.
“INSEE estimates VAT fraud at around 20,000 million euros a year,” he explains.
He judges that if “there has been progress” in terms of social fraud, “this still represents several billion euros.”
“To cheat is to steal”
The Minister reminds that as of July 1, 2023, allowances (excluding pensions) can no longer be deposited into non-European bank accounts.
For the first time, he gives an estimate of these “payments, about which there are sometimes doubts about the real existence of the beneficiary”, which “represent 150 million euros in five years”.
The benefits covered are, in particular, the ASPA (solidarity allowance for the elderly), family benefits, the RSA or even the supplementary disability allowance.
Non-European accounts will be affected, that is, accounts outside the SEPA zone that includes the member countries of the European Union, the member countries of the European Economic Area, as well as Switzerland, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican.
“The question of fraud in social benefits paid to people who do not reside in our territory regularly feeds a certain number of studies, articles and rightly scandalizes our fellow citizens”, the minister had launched last October, considering that ” to defraud is to steal, simply”.
Source: BFM TV
