Pedro Passos Coelho has not yet responded to the six questions that the PUBLIC sent him on Monday and Tuesday about a number of defaults which have marked their relationship with tax authorities between 2003 and 2007.
In statements he made on Tuesday in Porto, the Prime Minister referred in detail to the first question from the newspaper, but without identifying, and responding specifically to the question. However, clearly assumed the existence of problems in your tax records, placing them only in the sphere of delay in delivery of tax returns.
At issue, that question is just a confirmation or denial, that in that time period that overlaps with the years that did not pay the contributions due to Social Security, was the target of five tax enforcement procedures. Steps answered nothing so far – but also did not respond to Express online , which on Wednesday questioned on the same subject – but the public statement that “often “made late deliveries to the State, which in the context of speech can only be understood as tax returns, seems to correspond to the recognition that something is not right in its fiscal history.
The controversy about this case has a source which is similar to the controversy triggered in March 2007 concerning the degree of José Sócrates. Then everything began with the release blog From Portugal Deep, long before, numerous data on the academic career of former prime minister now being held. By the PUBLIC started its own investigation into the case and have begun to disseminate the results, it was not in the media sphere.
This time, the data for possible tax violations committed by Passos Coelho were revealed as early as May 2011, the blog True Blue Pencil. There are since then, nothing more has been added and without that it has won public relief, various data on the fiscal career then prime minister candidate. There are also numerous reports of penalties and fines imposed by the environmental authorities and courts (some of them reported at the time they occurred) at various company Fomentinvest group of which Passos Coelho had been a director since 2004.
With regard to the now Prime Minister’s relations with the tax authorities, the blog identifies with the number, the date of opening and closing, and the amount that involved five tax enforcement processes that Passos Coelho would have been target . The first of these processes date of May 2003, presumably referring to the fiscal year 2002, and relates to an amount of just € 101.
Sources of Finance heard by the PUBLIC express serious doubts about the possibility of this process as another, which began in October 2007 and the same value, to relate to delays in the delivery of tax returns. The fines then applied for an offense, guarantee, were much lower and usually processes not followed for tax enforcement.
Now the process said to have begun in February 2004, July 2004 and June 2006 and relating, respectively, the values of 2419, 2464 and 781 euros, the same sources exclude the possibility that this was delays in delivery of statements. Most likely they added, is that the case of taxes paid by the Treasury, and not paid in due time by the taxpayer, which were to tax enforcement, the values corresponding to taxes missing, plus court costs and interest for late payment.
All of the blog process have been resolved, it is not known with liens or payments until November 2007.
PUBLIC sent to the office of Passos Coelho, right on Monday, all the data for each of these processes, looking for whether Prime Minister confirms or denies that they concern you. As explained in writing, the data were known for PUBLIC for some time, but until now had not been given enough credibility to question the prime minister. Until he himself acknowledged that he had debts to Social Security.
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