2023-05-10 04:23:44
Barthélémy Philippe, edited by Gauthier Delomez / Photo credits: Romain Doucelin / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP
The Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal has unveiled an anti-fraud plan (tax and social), which must target the ultra-rich and multinationals as a priority. At the same time, the Minister also promised to ease the pressure on small taxpayers by strengthening the right to make mistakes.
“Tax evasion by the powerful is unforgivable.” It is in these terms that Gabriel Attal, the Minister of Public Accounts, set the tone for his anti-fraud plan (tax and social), which essentially targets the ultra-rich and multinationals. On the other hand, the minister promised to ease the pressure on small taxpayers, from the middle classes. The right to make mistakes, which allows them (since the Essoc law of 2018) to avoid penalties if they make a mistake in good faith in their tax return, will be strengthened.
The government first wants to massiveize regularization for individuals, as it already is for businesses. This procedure allows the taxpayer who has made an error in his tax return to settle the missing amount, without paying any increase or penalties.
A government unit dedicated to regularization
Another important change is that in the future, taxpayers will automatically be exempt from penalties on the first error. They will therefore no longer have to request a remission of penalties from the tax department, or even to prove their good faith to benefit from them.
A change feared by Olivier Villois, secretary general of the CGT Public Finances. “What is embarrassing is that any error will allow the remission of automatic penalties”, he notes at the microphone of Europe 1. “With the current right to error, all errors might not not be subject to a waiver of penalties. There, there is no differentiation”, he underlines, considering that it was a “door open to fraud”: “Some will say to themselves ‘if I get tricked, I will have a reduction in penalties and I will pay what I had to pay initially'”, imagines Olivier Villois.
Faced with this risk of fraud, the government plans to create a unit dedicated to regularization which will be staffed with 200 agents.
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