The head of state, candidate for the presidential election, has defended, Sunday, March 27th, the government’s use of private council firms during the five-yearly denounced by a report of the Senate.
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This is the subject on which Emmanuel Macron finds himself on the defensive, two weeks of the first round of the presidential election. Ten days after the publication of a Senate report, denouncing the broad government’s recourse to consulting firms, especially the American McKinsey, saying that this company would have paid no tax in France between 2011 and 2020, the President candidate assured that there would be nothing illegal. “There is no contract that has passed in the Republic without respecting the rule of public procurement: competition, transparency, responsibility of those who sign …”, he said, Sunday 27 March, on France 3. “It has the impression that there are combines, it’s wrong. There are rules of public procurement. France is a country of law,” he insisted. Than ministries, who are “day and night at work”, rely on “external service providers” to help them, “do not shock me,” he said.
“So everything is clear on it?”, the reporter revived. “Yes, otherwise it’s criminal,” Mr. Macron continued. Before you challenge those who say the opposite to launch a lawsuit. “Let anyone who has proof of manipulation, put the contract into question at the criminal”, said the head of state. Advocating for the “transparency” to be done, he insisted: “If there is a problem, there are judges and independent justice.” And to repeat: “If there is evidence of manipulation, that it goes to the penal! “
While his adversaries for the presidential election the snaps to be explained on this frequent remedy to private counseling practices, that the Senate considers a “sprawling phenomenon”, at the growing cost for public finances, Mr. Macron has attempted to counter-attack. “I am not persuaded that under this five-year, there have been fewer contracts than under some others, including some that attack us today,” he said. A strange formula, which suggests that its tongue has flown, by evoking “fewer contracts”, while its demonstration aimed on the contrary to insinuade that its predecessors would have had more recourse to consulting firms.
Reimbursement of taxes?
As for the tax optimization practiced by McKinsey, if he said “shocked” Wednesday, on M6, because this consulting firm would not have paid corporate tax for ten years, According to the revelations of the Senators’ report, Mr. Macron felt that this was explained by the existing tax rules. “Nobody charges taxes to businesses like this because it’s not the rules,” he said, pointing out that it was part of “an international battle”, He himself carried out in Europe, in order to compel businesses to pay “a minimum tax”. Especially digital giants. “We have an international agreement, Europe is transcoring it under the French Presidency of the European Union. We will spend the minimum tax for all companies and all these cases will be banned. In a few months We will be able to do it, “he promised. A reference to the international tax project for the largest companies, designed as a weapon against tax havens and dumping strategies. “I have been fighting since the beginning of my mandate so that all the companies working in France and make profits in France pay the tax”, still insured Mr. Macron.
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