Public Finances go on strike this Thursday
“We refuse the massacre of jobs at the DRFiP 31”, chanted the press release of Solidarity Public Finances 31. Public Finances are going on strike this Thursday. For the occasion, the union is calling for a rally this Thursday, January 13, 2022 from 12 noon in front of the management at 34 rue des lois in Toulouse.
Symbolic actions planned
In addition to a press briefing, the Solidaires Finances Publiques 31 teams produced a symbolic and wishes to “decorate” the walls of the direction, de-they, for “denounced the negative impact of these announcements for the public service, private and professional users and staff”.
The union specifies that it is “urgent to note that the situation is particularly serious in this administration, however essential on so many stakes of the republican pact”. The “concrete” effects of these decisions will be listed this Thursday at noon. Some are already communicated upstream.
“96 job cuts in 2022, nearly 400 since 2009”
The reason for this strike movement comes from the fact that a local technical committee is convened this Thursday, January 13. This meeting would aim to “validate the location of 96 job cuts in the services of the DRFiP 31 (Regional Directorate of Public Finances) this year”, as explained in the press release. The union recalls that these are “383 jobs which have been eliminated in our department since 2009, when the DGFiP was created”.
The union also evokes the effects that these job cuts can generate:
- For individuals, an increasingly “virtual” reception with closure of local services, restriction of reception hours, trend towards “all internet” and contact forms….
- For businesses, interlocutors torn between the delocalized telephone platform in Pau, the Haute-Garonne case management center announced in Agen, debt collection specifically departmental, tax services for local businesses weakened …
- For local authorities, the loss of local interlocutors (with the closing of treasuries) replaced by industrialized management services. There has already been a reduction in checks and delays in payment.
- For owners and tenants, a weakened work chain at the DGFiP: delays in the registration of notarial deeds with delay in updating on cadastral and land aspects and therefore erroneous property and housing taxes in massive numbers causing incomprehension of citizens.
- For tax audits, an essential mission both to ensure consent to tax and to face budgetary issues, services increasingly driven by digital technology and artificial intelligence, far removed from the issues and realities on the ground.
Beyond the professional conscience and the daily involvement of DGFIP agents, these constant job cuts at the DGFIP (as a reminder, half of the job cuts of civil servants have been targeted since years in our administration), we note that ‘we cannot always do more with always less staff’ “, concludes the press release.