The consulting firm is accused of tax optimization, so that its French entities would have paid no corporate tax between 2011 and 2020.
Le Monde With Reuters
After political controversy, the controversy on consulting firms takes a judicial turn. The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) announced Wednesday 6 April, the opening of a preliminary investigation for aggravated tax evasion as a result of the Senate report on the use of public advisory firms in France. This report, detailed in the survey of the world published on March 17, described “the growing influence of private consulting firms on public policies”.
The survey, launched after PNF’s “audits”, has been entrusted to the Finance Courts (SEJF).
Management of the health crisis, reform of APL, organization of symposia: the Senate Senate Commission on State Recourse to Cabinets denounces a “tentacular phenomenon”, at the growing cost for public finances. “It is a political will, a choice of the government to use consulting firms instead of the Administration”, lamented the rapporteur of the Eliane Assassi Commission (Community CRCE Group). “This is an in-depth intrusion of the private sector in the public sphere,” she still stated.