"I hear the anger of all the French" : Bruno Le Maire returns to McKinsey (VIDEO)

For several weeks, the McKinsey affair had him invited to campaign for the presidency. And no doubt the government would have done well had it not been for this intricate event. In mid-March, in a Senate report that was the result of 4 months of work, the McKinsey company was specifically accused of not paying taxes thanks to tax optimization. As a reminder, McKinsey, the main consulting firm for the management of the health crisis, has earmarked more than 12m euros for these repetitive tasks, but reportedly has not made a profit in France over the past decade.

The guest of “C à vous” on Wednesday, April 13, Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of Economy, Finance and Recovery, spoke about the McKinsey issue and the importance of advising these companies. “The truth is, we are one of the European countries that use them the least. I’m quite open to using them less, there are definitely things that need fixing, the Prime Minister said. Finally, who are we kidding when Marine Le Pen states that a few tens of millions of euros from McKinsey will make it possible to finance 40 to 50 billion euros for the purchase of highways, tens of billions of unfunded spending, 20 billion euros on pensions? Let’s take a look at the numbers and reality‘, the 52-year-old minister argued first.

In the process, Bruno Le Maire wanted to make an update for the French. “But at least they pay their taxes,” I hear the anger of all the French. That’s the point. We’re fighting for all these companies to pay their taxes, we’ve started a tax audit at McKinsey, McKinsey will. pay the taxes they owe to France‘, the minister assured.

At the Europe 1 wave at the end of last March, the Mayor of Bruno spoke about what no one denounces as a state scandal. “There are no lessons for the government to learn in the fight against tax optimization,” he said, in response to suspicions of tax optimization at McKinsey’s French subsidiaries.

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