End of payment of allowances to non-European bank accounts

The Social benefits French push on Bank accounts Non-European countries will stop in 2023 as part of the fight against it Forgery. The Public Accounts Minister said on Sunday that it is worth 150 million euros over five years. Gabriel Attalwhich is announced in columns Parisian He will present “at the beginning of 2023 a specific plan about tax fraud and social.”

“From next year we will be able to withdraw a number Value added tax fraudulent company The Minister notes that we are making progress on the electronic invoicing site that will be implemented from July 2024 for large companies and in the following years for others. “L”Forget assesses fraud Value added tax About 20 billion euros annually, ”explains Gabriel Atal.

“doubts about the real existence of the beneficiary”

It feels that if “there is progress” on social fraudThis is still several billion euros. The Minister states that from July 1, 2023, allowances (except for pensions) can no longer be paid into non-European bank accounts. It gives for the first time an estimate of these “payments, in which doubts are sometimes raised about the real existence of the beneficiary”, which “represent 150 million euros over five years”.

“The issue of fraud in social benefits paid to people who do not reside in our lands regularly feeds a certain number of studies and articles and rightly scandals our citizens,” the minister had launched last October, considering that “fraud is theft, quite simply.”

“fraud theft”

Non-European accounts would be concerned, i.e. outside of the SEPA area which includes EU member states and EEA member states, as well SwissAnd the AndorraAnd the Monacoand San Marino and Vatican.

“The issue of fraud in social benefits paid to people who do not reside in our lands regularly feeds a certain number of studies and articles and rightly scandals our citizens,” the minister had launched last October, considering that “fraud is theft, quite simply.”