Employee claims that the tax authorities consulted Steps of data … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

An employee of Finance of Amadora Service who is friend Pedro Passos Coelho has received a call from the prime minister’s personal phone related to your tax return, which led the employee to consult the tax registration steps in early November last year and, days later, to be called to explain themselves before the Tax and Customs Authority (TA).

                     

                          This version of events described in the edition of Friday the Economic Daily , contained in the minutes of the official hearing by the Internal Audit Services Directorate AT.

consulted by the economic newspaper confirmed that Passos contacted the employee of the tax authorities concerned, the prime minister’s office does not clarify whether there was in fact a phone conversation reported by the working, answering before the head of government did not ask “inside information” not a “favorable treatment”.

“The prime minister did not seek to obtain any favorable treatment by the Tax and Customs Authority, nor requested privileged or confidential information about your tax situation to any employee of that institution, “he writes Steps cabinet, adding that,” as happens to every citizen in their relationship with the tax authorities when he was called to regulate aspects of your contributory life, the Prime Minister did so in strict law enforcement, without any subterfuge, dilatory behavior or favorable treatment. “

The employee who commits Pedro Passos Coelho, describes the Economic Daily , consulted the fiscal data to 15h51 from November 6 last year. The consultation was detected because AT was then to perform “tests” the alert system known as the “VIP list”, a mechanism which allowed us to identify who the AT service acedia data some – few – taxpayers, all to exercise political office (Passos Coelho, Paulo Portas, Cavaco Silva and Paulo Nuncio, Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs).

Days after consultation, on 13 November, the employee was heard in Lisbon in audit services internal. His version of events is described in the minutes that the Economic Daily discloses partially. The worker confirms that acceded to the tax registration steps in the Finance Service Amadora 2 and explains what led her to do so: “The result of the consultation’s own request [Passos Coelho] through private telephone number, your mobile phone to my, to help you understand an issue related to their tax return. The fact that it was given such support, via phone, only occurred because the taxpayer Pedro Passos Coelho is a person of my personal relationships and friendship. “