With the machine the tax administration to work at full throttle on the marking liens, coercive debt collection from taxpayers to the Tax and Customs Authority (TA) last year amounted to 1148 million euros.
According to the figures by the Economic Daily and becoming available by the Ministry of Finance, the value is well below the amount collected in this way in 2013 (about 1900 million), as compared with the year it was released a tax amne sty for the settlement of debts.
In a statement, the Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs considers, therefore, that 1148 million that went to the state treasury a sum are “particularly significant given that the implementation in 2013 of Outstanding Debt Settlement Scheme (RERD) significantly reduced the value of the debt portfolio.” But nothing is said about the year before that, when not in force any extraordinary debt relief to the tax authorities. In 2012, the enforced collection was higher than 2014, in the order of 1228 million euros, according to the value that the Finance released two years ago.
The Ministry of Finance is an optimistic reading, highlighting that of AT have surpassed 48 million euros the target set by the Treasury for the last year, to raise in coercive collection 1100 million – a number that is not in the state budget proposal for 2014 report, but that the Secretariat State led by Paul Nuncio now says.
In 2014, still guarantee the Finance, voluntary compliance by taxpayers reached “the highest value ever.” What is that amount? The ministry does not mention, but merely disclose that “the three main taxes (VAT, personal and corporate income) reached a record 93.4%” and to compare this value with 2010 (87.2%) to highlight the consolidation of the “downward trend observed over the the past four years” on the voluntary compliance of debt.
PUBLIC however questioned the Ministry of Finance on which the value of enforced collection that resulted from Pawn execution, a as also not in the statement sent to the media by the ministry led by Maria Luís Albuquerque.
The ministry sees the data the “increasing effectiveness in enforcing payment of tax debts and combating non-compliance and tax evasion as a result of modernization and reform operated in the past four years in the Portuguese tax authorities “.
In addition to the payments taxpayers regularize their debts after notified by the Finance, says the Economic Daily, the amount of coercive collection also includes amounts from deposits, the sale of seized property and call credit compensation (for example, when the payment of a customer to a company with debts to the tax authorities is shot down by the tax authorities directly).
According to reports cited by Economic Daily , the total debt of the taxpayer to the tax authorities amounted at the end of the first half of last year totaled EUR 14 billion, down from 14,200 million in the previous year . But only 6800 million was considered collectible debt.
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