While the executive seeks to close the sequence of pension reform, the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, presents, Tuesday, May 9, a plan to fight against tax evasion aimed at responding to the feeling of injustice, in doing “pay what they owe to the ultra-rich and the multinationals who defraud”.
In the processions against the pension reform, the demonstrators demand more social justice. Should the richest be involved?
France is the last country in the European Union with a national wealth tax, 10% of taxpayers pay 70% of income tax, there is an exceptional contribution on high incomes… We tax more than our neighbours, and we are not a tax haven for anyone. Of course, we hear the demand for justice. This is the purpose of the tax evasion plan that the President of the Republic asked me to present. Our priority: to make the ultra-rich and the multinationals who defraud pay what they owe.
Do the richest cheat more?
Fraud is a slow poison for our social pact. Every fraud is serious, but that of the most powerful is unforgivable. My philosophy is to focus efforts on them and ease the pressure on the middle classes. I’m not saying that they defraud more, but that when it happens, the amounts are significant: today, 80% of the rights adjusted are due to 10% to 15% of the files. From a certain level, one must be more controlled.
How ?
By more means, more sanctions, and more results. By the end of the five-year period, tax audits on the largest estates will increase by 25%. And the hundred largest market capitalizations will now be subject to a tax audit every two years.
What about penalties?
I want to strengthen the penalties for the most serious fraud, for example when there is concealment of assets abroad. In these situations, we are no longer in citizenship. We work with [le ministre de la justice] Eric Dupond-Moretti to a sanction of fiscal and civic indignity. It seems legitimate to me that a person who has committed aggravated tax evasion should be deprived of any reduction or tax credit and of his right to vote for a certain period of time. We seize the Council of State to analyze its constitutionality. Another measure: I want convictions for tax evasion without penalty of deprivation of liberty now accompanied by work of general interest. In addition to paying his fine, the big tax evader will paint the tax office.
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