The Tax Authority and Customs introduced last year, 137 disciplinary proceedings and investigation officials who unjustifiably accessed data contributors, constituting a breach of the right to tax secrecy. Are 12 more than in 2013 and already include 27 open following a consultation of tax data Passos Coelho.
The cases stem from internal audit processes, according to an official source in the Ministry of Finance, are open when the Tax Authority is aware of “suspected breaches of confidentiality with respect to any taxpayer.” The goal is to “defend the fundamental right of every taxpayer to tax secrecy”. The number surprised the union leaders, who have no memory of a few years ago this type of situation go beyond a dozen. As surprised the volume-finding processes to employees following the tax register of consulting the Prime Minister. There currently are 27 disciplinary proceedings opened as a result of this case, according to forward this week the Business Journal. One has already been filed.
The legal services of the Trade Union of Professionals of the Tax and Customs Inspection Association (PATI) and the Tax Workers Union (STI) are monitoring these processes, some of which were motivated by “curiosity” guarantee. The sanction which may be applied to them have not yet been decided, but Nuno Barroso, president of APIC, does not believe that may be punished sternly an employee only for this reason.
The situations that have come to the attention of the unions largely go beyond the case of Pedro Passos Coelho and indicate that the number of employees of the Tax Authority called to justify access to tax data from certain taxpayers amounts to several dozen. It will deal with tax information queries of politicians and businessmen but also taxpayers “anonymous”.
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