The flash audit presented today provides an insight into the coordination and conditions for supporting and taking in Ukrainian refugees in the wake of the war that broke out in the country on 24 February 2022. Between the start of the conflict and September 2022, more than 7.1 million Ukrainian nat...
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The First President of the Court of Accounts was heard on 10 January by the Senate's Committee on Culture, Education and Communication and then by the National Assembly’s Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education. These hearings follow the submission to Parliament of a progress report on the prepa...
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The Greater Paris Metropolis (MGP) comprises 130 municipalities and the City of Paris, representing a total population of over seven million inhabitants. The report published today by the Court of Auditors begins with a reminder that the decision to create the MGP was prompted by an ambitious reform...
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Value Added Tax (VAT) is a general consumption tax charged directly to customers on the goods they consume or the services they use in France. The substantial changes in its budgetary and legal framework, as well as recent developments in the economic situation, marked by the health crisis, the ener...
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The Court of Accounts was asked by the National Assembly’s Public Policy Evaluation and Audit Committee to investigate the State’s policy for managing the 192,000 buildings in its stock. This report comprises three sections, devoted respectively to a description of this very large and highly diversi...
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While France has recently adopted a possible warming scenario of around 2°C by 2050, in that same year the country could have 7.2 million inhabitants aged between 75 and 84, i.e. 75% more than today. As such, the objective of “living better at home”, in addition to efforts to combat global warming, ...
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Tax expenditure (commonly referred to as "tax loopholes") covers all the tax breaks and reductions provided for by law and intended to benefit different categories of taxpayer. They are introduced to encourage taxpayers to behave in a particular way (for example, the research tax credit to support p...
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Since 2021, various studies by the Court of Accounts have focused on block-release and vocational training for employees, which mobilised € 21.8 billion in public funding in 2022. This note summarises the results. The liberalisation of the framework for employee block-release and vocational training...
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The initial Budget Act for 2023 provided for € 158 billion in financial transfers from the central government to local authorities (municipalities, groups of municipalities, departments and regions), or 5.7 % of forecast GDP. Since 2021, these transfers have grown to account for more than half of lo...
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In 2020, an emergency plan was implemented to deal with the immediate economic consequences of the health crisis, followed from 2022 onwards by a resilience plan, which remains in progress, to support business in the face of the energy crisis. Numerous schemes to help businesses have been launched, ...
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