According to figures from the Ministry of the Economy, the amounts collected after tax audit reached an unprecedented level in 2022, with a total of 14.6 billion euros, or 8.2% and 1.2 billion more than in 2021. “The results not only returned to their level before the health crisis but exceeded those obtained in 2019,” we congratulate ourselves at Bercy.
“The good results of the tax audit in 2022 are notably the result of the use of data mining [exploration des données] to better target tax audits, as part of the Fraud Targeting and Request Valorization (CFVR) IT project”points out, for its part, the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) in its 2022 activity report. Figures that could be more spectacular?
The Solidaires public finances union, for its part, believes that the entire tax fraud in France would reach between 80 and 100 billion euros per year, which is much more than the social fraudwhich would amount to 20 or 25 billion, he insists, while some regularly denounce the scale of this phenomenon.
At the global level, the various collaborative surveys carried out by The world with other press organizations regularly show the extent of tax fraud on the planet. The latter takes on the appearance of an organized system thanks to tax planning strategies used by multinational companies which exploit differences in tax rules to avoid paying taxes.
“The phenomenon of base erosion and profit shifting is responsible for a loss of tax revenue of 100 to 240 billion dollars (approximately 227 billion euros) per year across the world , the equivalent of 4% to 10% of revenues generated by corporate taxes globally”notes the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The British NGO Tax Justice Network estimates the sums that escape tax each year at $472 billion (445 billion euros), an increase of $45 billion (40.6 billion euros). compared to a previous estimate from the NGO dated 2020, which then estimated them at 427 billion, including 245 billion due to companies and 182 billion due to individuals.
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These figures are questioned by others. According to Pascal Saint-Amans, the former director of the OECD tax administration, we can only make umptions on this subject.
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