Public Finances Ministerial Statistical Office

The Ministerial Statistical Office of Public Finances is the Official Statistics and Studies Unit.

The Official Statistics and Studies Unit is a division of the Fiscal Studies and Statistics Department (DESF), which is part of the Public Finances General Directorate (DGFiP). This is overseen by the Ministry for the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty.

The Official Statistics and Studies Unit is responsible for producing and publishing statistics and studies on fiscal matters.

In addition, it provides the Official Statistical Service and researchers with numerous individual fiscal databases to feed highly important statistical output.

The Official Statistics and Studies Unit uses DGFiP tax data reporting from IT management and accounting applications, at variable intervals established based on the bureau’s projects.

These aggregated and evaluated data cover almost all taxes (VAT, personal taxation, tax on professionals and local direct taxation), as well as some fiscal expenditure (the CIR Research Tax Credit and the CICE Tax Credit, in particular).

In accordance with its status as a Ministerial Statistical Office, the Official Statistics and Studies Unit plays a key role operations, by providing general information from data gathered by the DGFiP. It carries out analyses and studies on major subjects that directly or indirectly concern taxation.

Also, alongside other entities (Universities, France Stratégie and others), it participates in evaluating public policies.

Lastly, it assists in assessing tax revenue losses.

On an annual basis, the Official Statistics and Studies Unit highlights fiscal databases by sharing numerous statistical tables regarding personal taxation, professional taxation and local taxes. These tables are accompanied by publications that comment on the main findings. It also publishes aggregated tables at a municipal level regarding income tax, the solidarity tax on wealth and direct local taxes (baselines, rates, results and consultations).

The studies and statistical productions of the Official Statistics and Studies Unit are available on the impots.gouv.fr website, under the heading Ouvrir dans un nouvel ongletÉtudes et statistiques (Studies and statistics).