Each year, officials from the Ministry of Finance not realize less than 46,000 tax audits. Therefore a job that often leads to adjustments … or not.
On Wednesday, Le Parisien shows indeed that a “note of a few pages” was drafted by the tax management service, “one of the strongest departments in the Financial Branch (DGFIP) and transmitted to the national delegation the fight against fraud (DNLF)”. Yet this precious notes, “helpful”, has never been “made public”. Only a few people there have even had access. And for good reason.
An amount abysmal
Our colleagues show and the document is enough “embarrass Bercy”. On these pages, those few words, in a country where the crisis seems insolvent, have no reassuring. Officials say such things as “an amount of fraud estimated at € 17 billion in 2012″. They state that “the amount of shortfall of VAT appears higher than that presented in previous assessments (between 10 and 12 billion euros).”
“At the origin of this revaluation, a change in the calculation method. Using new mathematical models, officials have plunged back into the conclusions of the approximately 46,000 tax audits every year, “indicated Le Parisien .
What does the Ministry of Finance? “This is an internal working document produced by an office manager. This is not an official note, it is not validated.” He added: “The fraud estimates may inherently be wrong.”
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