Bruno The mayor said he could not comment at this stage, but that “the General Directorate of Public Finance (…) would undoubtedly initiate the necessary steps” in case of fraud.
Le Monde with AFP
After the revelations of an international consortium of 150 writing (ICIJ), of which Le Monde is part, through the “Pandora Papers”, Bercy has launched audits concerning the presence or absence of French tax residents among people Included, announced, Tuesday, October 5, the Minister of Bruno Economy the Mayor. “We can not confirm for the moment the presence of” French tax residents, “he said in a statement forwarded to the France-Presse Agency.
#pandorapapers | I asked the @dgfip_officiel to check if French tax residents have fraud.
If … https://t.co/6vpiwylk11 “/p>- brunolemaire (@bruno the mayor)
“If French tax residents needed to be involved in abusive optimization schemes, the General Directorate of Public Finance, at my request, would undoubtedly incur necessary approaches related to justice to recover all the sums due” , again claimed the Mayor.
600 English involved
The revelations of the “Pandora Papers”, which rely on some 11.9 million documents from 14 financial services companies, have brought up more than 29,000 offshore companies. The opacity surrounding these structures located in countries or territories with very advantageous tax can be used to conceal financial assets and to defraud the tax administration.
Some 600 French appear in the investigation. But they can be tax residents of other countries, like Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who says to be a Moroccan resident since 2013. “The exemplary fiscal is the keystone of confidence in the institutions”, still has again Estimated Bruno the Mayor, saying “shocked” by these “Pandora Papers”.