More than half of the strategic plan for the fight against fraud and tax and customs evasion drawn up by the Government remains to be fulfilled, the application of which should end in 2022. Of the 60 measures, 37 have not yet been fulfilled, including the implementation of the alert system for cash withdrawals greater than 50,000 euros and the access of the Public Prosecutor to the database of the tax authorities.
The information is provided by Jornal de Notícias, based on the 2022 report on the fight against fraud and tax and customs evasion, the term was later extended by two years, but it is still far from being fully in force. Given these figures, the Ministry of Finance, but did not get any response.
The hiring of specialized workers in artificial intelligence was another measure of the strategic plan, however, it has not yet been implemented. For JN, Ana Gamboa, president of the Tax Workers Union, says that “the AT is on the edge.” With 294 fewer employees than in 2021, the current operation of the tax authority “harms the fight against fraud and tax evasion.”
Also speaking with JN, the director of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (FEP), oscar afonsowho helped prepare the PSD proposals for tax reform and who collaborates with Luis Montenegro’s party, considers that “political will advance in the legislative initiatives that are necessary to deal more effectively with the problems of fraud and tax and customs evasion”.
Source: Observadora
