The Minister of Public Accounts Amélie de Montchalin said this Tuesday that she wanted to recover 15 billion euros on fraud in 2026.
The Minister of Public Accounts Amélie de Montchalin said this Tuesday, April 15, wanting to recover 15 billion euros on fraud in 2026, while 40 billion euros are to be found to maintain the deficit target of 4.6% of GDP in 2026.
In 2024, “all the tax fraud, social together, it is 20 billion euros that we detected, but it is above all, and that is the big news, 13 billion euros that we collected”, quantified the minister on France 2.
“The objective for 2026 is that we collect 15 billion euros,” she continued.
“It’s money stolen from the French”
Amélie de Montchalin spoke of an “organized crime industry” and said that we continue to collect money, because it is the money stolen from the French “.
Recovering the fraud money constitutes a crucial issue for the government, which wishes to reduce the France’s public deficit to 4.6% of the GDP in 2026. Maintain this objective “will ask for an additional effort of 40 billion euros”, which is “very considerable”, had revealed the French Minister of Economy Eric Lombard on Sunday.
Fighting fraud, “this is a way of resolving the deficit issues without increasing taxes so that honest people do not have to pay for criminals and fraudsters,” said Amélie de Montchalin on Tuesday. “For years, fraud was anecdotal. Today, it is challenges in tens of billions that are essential to public services,” she concluded.
