When the tax administration is interested in the rich, it does not hide its desire to recover money in the event of controls.
Within the powerful Directorate General of Public Finances, the armed wing of Bercy responsible for collecting taxes and combating fraud, the status of "rich" is defined by thresholds: the DFE are the tax centers that earn more than 270,000 euros gross per year and / or who have assets valued at 3.9 M €.
There is even a higher category of ultrariche, the “very high stakes files” (DTFE), for taxpayers with incomes above 2 M € and assets of more than 15 M €!
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The status of rich exposes to more regular tax audits.
According to documents sent by Bercy each year to Parliament, these examinations were systematic between 2016 and 2018. Teams were tasked with scrutinizing all the documents of the rich
"according to a technique of correlated control of income and wealth"
.
Result: more than 1 billion
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