It’s a record. Some 17.1 billion euros in duties and penalties were claimed in 2025 from individuals or businesses following a tax audit, the Ministry of the Economy and Finance indicated on Tuesday in its annual tax audit report.
In 2024, the amounts collected had already reached a record level of 16.7 billion euros, according to figures from Bercy. They have continued to increase since 2021. That year, they reached 13.4 billion euros.
“With more than 17 billion euros collected, the notified amounts linked to tax fraud continue to increase, particularly in terms of wealth taxation,” underlined the Minister of Action and Public Accounts, David Amiel, quoted in the press kit.
“But beyond the sanction, the most effective public response remains the one which makes fraud impossible. It is in this spirit that we are thoroughly modernizing our tools and control methods in the face of ever more complex fraud,” he added.
The amounts claimed following external tax audits (carried out on site) reached 9.8 billion euros and those linked to documentary tax audits 7.3 billion. As for them, the amounts collected as part of the tax audit by the administration in 2025 reached 11.4 billion euros, down 0.6% over one year.
A bill submitted to deputies
MPs are expected to adopt at first reading this Tuesday the bill to combat social and tax fraud, which has sharply divided the chamber, with the left denouncing a “relentlessness” against the most precarious.
The executive hopes that the text will be able to quickly bring 1.5 billion euros into the coffers, valuable in a context of reducing public deficits, according to the latest figure communicated eight days ago by the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu.
To achieve this, a wide range of measures, aimed at better detecting fraud, strengthening sanctions and giving public bodies more means of recovery.
Nearly 20 billion euros of fraud had been detected in total by the administration in 2024.
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