It's a real sleight of hand: the government has overestimated the losses of Social Security in 2020, to better collect the catch-up of contributions in 2021 and post a sharply declining deficit, affirms Tuesday the Court of Auditors, which refuses to certify part of the accounts.
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Taxes 2022: all about your tax return
The calculation of Social Security revenue over the past two years
"does not give a true picture of the deficit and its evolution"
, indicates the Court.
At issue: the contributions of self-employed workers, whose installments had been
“halved”
at the start of the health crisis, resulting in a
“reduced amount”
of resources in 2020. But
“following the adjustments made in 2021”
, the result was
“
symmetrically”
“increased”
by 5 billion euros, which should have been attached to the previous year.
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