Pure fraud or simple “declarative errors”, “hidden work” caused Social Security to lose at least 6,000 million euros in “evaded contributions” last year, according to a report published this Wednesday, which underlines the “fraud nature” of microenterprises.
Social Security does not collect everything you owe. On the eve of a pension reform, the Higher Council for the Financing of Social Protection (HCFiPS) recalls the deficit linked to “hidden work”.
In the private sector, “evaded contributions” thus represent 2.2% to 2.7% of the total forecast -adjustments and overpayments included-, that is, from 5,100 to 6,400 million euros in 2021. Extending to unemployment insurance , the deficit is estimated even between 5.6 and 7.1 billion. Added to this are 500 million in the agricultural sector and especially 1 to 1,500 million among microentrepreneurs, that is, 17% to 26% of unpaid contributions. Figures that “confirm the very fraudulent nature” of these companies, especially in the construction sector.
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However, the prize goes to platform workers, with a rate of “evaded contributions” of 43%, which rises to 58% among home delivery drivers and 62% for passenger vehicles with drivers (VTC). Pointing out the responsibility of the platforms that “still provide partial or erroneous information, or even fail to declare” the income of their workers, the HCFiPS points out “the interest that there would be in studying the systematization of a withholding” by them. East.
The report specifies that these “fraud assessment results should not be confused with the sums that could ultimately be rectified.” However, it is possible to reconcile them with the deficit projections, the subject of another note from the same organization. Despite an “indisputable recovery” since the Covid-related shock (from -39 billion in 2020 to -7 billion expected in 2023), social security should see its losses recede rapidly (to around -12 billion in 2025). and 2026), weighed down by its branch of old age “at the origin of most of the growing deficit”.
Source: BFM TV
