The Union of Workers of Taxes revealed today that get daily tax workers contacts to ask for help, after being notified by search data “taxpayers” famous. The pressure on employees who access data more known personalities of public opinion will have increased in the last two months from the time it was referred to tax information of Prime Minister: since December, were opened over 30 cases and over a hundred tax workers was called to present justifications, tells the TSF. The situation, says the union, is unprecedented, but became applicant since it emerged “a report of the Prime Minister and the Tecnoforma.”
Paul Ralha, president of the Union of Taxation Employees, clarifies the pressure is not restricted to cases that are consulted Prime Minister’s data and extends to other names of politicians and bankers or big business. Employees are called even when the query they do is ordered by the supervisor and “as part of a broader enforcement.” At this time, there will be more than 130 workers in the sights of the Tax Authority because of the known names search.
In the radio, Paul Ralha also said that there is “strong evidence that there is a kind of VIP list of special taxpayers “: a training for 300 inspectors tax, it was explicitly stated that” all the names that were accessed bag that would lead to the employee’s call to be justified. ” For the union, this this VIP list exists even considering “unacceptable” to compile names to create a kind of “Portuguese first and second.”
In a statement sent to the TSF, the Ministry of Finance ensures that there is no list “VIP”.
“According to information provided by the Tax and Customs Authority (AT), that list does not exist. In all cases where the AT is aware of suspicious violation of confidentiality regarding any Portuguese taxpayer is established the corresponding internal audit process for the sole purpose of defending the fundamental right of every taxpayer to tax secrecy, “the statement said.
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