Out of 800 million euros of adjustments notified last year, Urssaf has recovered only 80. Gabriel Attal, the Minister of Public Accounts, is determined to go to war against undeclared work, the cost of which is estimated at 8 billion euros.
If the administration has so much difficulty in recovering the sums due, it is partly because of the delays in the procedure. For example, on a posted labour fraud case against the Spanish company Terra Fecundis, which provides labour to many French farmers in Gard and Vaucluse, a judgment took place at first instance in 2021.