Tax Evasion: the Committee on Finance wants names

Didier Migaud and Gilles Carrez "want to read the list of names" escaped tax in Liechtenstein.

The chairman and rapporteur of the Committee on Finance, Didier Migaud (PS) and Gilles Carrez (UMP), reported today in a letter to the Minister of Budget, Eric Woerth. The latter said that they "wish to take this opportunity to read the list of names held by the ministry as well as suites that Bercy intends to give to this case" tax evasion. Didier Migaud also wants to "implement" the interparliamentary cooperation between the Committee on Finance of the National Assembly and the Bundestag (Germany). He said that he had "been in touch with his German counterpart to consider joint initiatives in the direction of Vaduz (Liechtenstein's capital)."

Earlier in the day, Eric Woerth said that "in the interests of transparency," he asked, "if they wish, to the chairmen of the Finance committees of the Assembly and Senate and the General Budget rapporteurs" to come at the Directorate-General for Taxation (IMB) refer to data available to it. "According to him:" The case took a scale that it is important that they be informed of the measures being taken by the IMB. "

Checks in "a few weeks"

He also responded to comments made Wednesday by the PS deputy Arnaud Montebourg, who expressed surprise that the government has received a list of 200 fraudsters without having immediately prosecuted. "I refer to Mr Montebourg his law studies. There is a tax law that could not transmit (a record) to justice after a tax audit and the opinion of the Commission of tax offences, so I was not there. "

As for the work of the investigators, Eric Woerth said that the list was being verified. Then, "we déclencherons personal checks, depth on each person on whom there is a suspicion," he added. Such controls could still take "some time, a few weeks."