Payroll software error at Toulouse University Hospital: 596 doctors caught up in taxes
An error in the payment software affects 596 doctors at the University Hospital Center (CHU) of Toulouse. They will have to regularize their situation with taxes and Urssaf for the on-call payments made for 3 years and misrepresented on their pay slip.
After two years of Covid and investment in patients, the missive was not really well received. At the beginning of the summer, 596 doctors at the Toulouse University Hospital Center (CHU) were informed of an error in the configuration of the payroll software for the payment of their trips made during their on-call duty. The Regional Directorate of Public Finances and Urssaf are asking them for a regularization for an error on the taxable net and on the calculation of the CSG during the last three years.
€25,000 to be settled, including €10,000 in CSG contributions
For some doctors, the note is salty. “I started asking myself questions in April when I filed my tax return, nothing matched. Today, I find myself owing €25,000 in catch-up, including €10,000 from CSG! Of course it makes sense to pay taxes, but if I had known about this sum, I certainly would not have contracted 2 credits”, testifies a surgeon.
His case is not isolated. The CHU’s medical affairs department was alerted by several practitioners. “A configuration error, by the company MIPIH, service provider in charge of payroll management at the Toulouse University Hospital, must be regularized. If the practitioners correctly received the sums to which they were entitled, the net taxable amount indicated on the payslip and the calculation of the CSG had been erroneous for 3 years for the payment of these trips made within the framework of on-call duty”, confirms the management of the Toulouse University Hospital which, on August 9, organized an information meeting for the practitioners concerned in the presence of a tax law firm commissioned by the payroll software provider. The CHU also indicates that it has put in place “individualized support so that no doctor is put in difficulty”.
“A risk of seeing doctors go into the private sector”
In a context of staff shortages, bad publicity is really not welcome. “Young practitioners find themselves in the most difficulty in this business because they are on a lot of on-call duty, tiring and poorly paid. The risk is that they adorn themselves and that the hospital loses its attractiveness even more. Because the opportunities outside exist, with better salaries and without call in the middle of the night, ”says Dr Pierre Rumeau, doctor at the Toulouse University Hospital and president of the National Union of Hospital Practitioners (SyNPH). His union is ready to support practitioners up to the administrative court if necessary. “It would not be abnormal for them to ask the courts that it be the professional liability insurance of the service provider who pays the late sums through his fault”, slips the president of SyNPH.
“Why outsource a key hospital function?”
The latter does not spare the management of the Toulouse University Hospital either, wondering “about the relevance of outsourcing payroll management, a key administrative function of the hospital”, and suggests that “the University Hospital is advance sums due to social organizations because he did not retain them in due time, then he spreads out the reimbursement at the simple request of the practitioners”.
A second information and follow-up meeting is scheduled for the end of the month.