The government presented this Tuesday its “battle plan” against tax evasion. A necessary fight, argued on the set of BFMTV the Delegate Minister in charge of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal, who proposes going further to identify the biggest fraudsters.
In particular, “mobilizing the file of the airlines”, to “verify the time spent in the national territory by people who say they are not residents of France and who, therefore, do not pay their taxes in France”, explains Gabriel Attal .
The Minister announces on BFMTV that the National Commission for Informatics and Liberties (Cnil) will be seized and specifies that these future data crossings between those of the tax service and those of the airlines will not be “automatic”.
“When in Doubt”
“I want the General Directorate of Public Finance, when there is a doubt about a taxpayer who declares that he is not a resident in France (…) to be able to consult the file of the airlines to verify when that person took a plane from France to destination,” continues the Minister.
In cases where the tax administration has questions, doubts, [il faut] that he can consult the airlines’ file, that is called a communication right”, insists Gabriel Attal.
On BFMTV in March, Gabriel Attal had already offered to trust airlines to track social fraud. “It is not a question of dealing” with the beneficiaries, “when you receive national solidarity funds, you must have the right to receive them,” the minister justified.
After presenting this Tuesday its measures against tax evasion, the government will announce the “against social fraud” at the end of the month.
Source: BFM TV
