The Secretary of State for Finance maintains this year the prize for the maximum productivity of tax officials, transferring 5% of the income from coercive collection to the Tax Stabilization Fund in 2021, according to an ordinance published today.
The bonus, which at least since 2013 it has always been 5%is the percentage of the amount of coercive collections, made in the previous year, derived from the processes initiated by the services of the Tax and Customs Authority (TA) that constitute the income of the Tax Stabilization Fund (FET).
The imputation of this income to the FET results from the evaluation that the Ministry of Finance makes of the overall performance or productivity of AT services, given the degree of execution of the activity plans and the fulfillment of the global objectives established or agreed upon with the authority.
“The results, both of the effective collection of tax revenues, and those achieved in the development of TA global activities, reveal the high degree of compliance with the objectives established for TA in 2021, a year in which the conditions continued particularly adverse effects caused by the covid-19 pandemic, as well as a high and demanding level of professional competence and dedication of the workers in the performance of the multiple attributions of the TA”, justifies the Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs, António Mendonça Mendes, in the diploma published today.
In 2017, the Government approved the merger of the FET with the equivalent fund for customs officials, the ugly, both funds for finance salary supplements compensation of the degree of specificity of the functions of tax and customs collection and control of the entry of goods into the European space.
The decision to merge these two funds came after an audit by the Court of Auditors, which concluded that there was a lack of conformity and transparency in the accounts and that said funds “accumulated manifestly excessive amounts” of 1,163 million euros at the end of 2015, compared to to needs, “contrary to good financial management practices”.
In view of these findings, the court recommended “Relevant initiatives to revalue utility” of the FET and the FEA.
Source: Observadora
