Rare are the reports of the Court of Auditors which welcome a government reform... In a document published on Tuesday, the magistrates of the rue Cambon judge that the withholding tax (PAS) - which makes it possible to deduct income tax each month instead of waiting for the following year - is an "
operational success
". And all the more so since the cost of this reform at the start of the five-year term was limited to some 215 million euros for the tax administration. Unsurprisingly, the two tenants of Bercy, Bruno Le Maire and Olivier Dussopt, hastened to communicate on this satisfaction, believing that "
it is also the demonstration that the State knows how to carry out major reforms and modernize
".
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However, it was not a foregone conclusion.
After being postponed several times (1973 then 2009), this project was relaunched in 2015, under the Hollande five-year term, then confirmed by Emmanuel Macron in 2017 for an implementation initially planned for 2018 and finally carried out in 2019…
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