The survey of Tax and Customs Authority about the existence of a “VIP list” of taxpayers was conducted by an inspector who was last year, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Administration and therefore the Ministry of Cabinet member Finance and colleague the Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs, Paulo Nuncio, advancing on Tuesday the public. The guardianship denies that there was conflict of interest.
Paul Nuncio remembers the public , began by denying that there was a so-called “VIP list” of taxpayers whose data access was restricted, but turned out to request the opening of an investigation, one that was led by Conceição Baptista, the Finance Inspection General, his former colleague in the Ministry of Finance.
The report that resulted from inspection , published on May 19, it concluded that the “VIP list” ran from September 29 to May 10 but Paul Nuncio did not know of its existence, despite being included in the list along with just three other names: Cavaco Silva, Passos Coelho and Paulo Portas.
At the newspaper, the Ministry of Finance explained that “the Inquisitor does not consider itself prevented or part of any conflict.” He also stressed that the Secretary of State for Public Administration, who Conceição Baptista was adviser during its passage by the ministry, has no competence on the Tax Authority (AT).
The Code of Ethics of the General Inspection Finance (IGF) provides for their employees a period of three years of separation between IGF activity and other entities, to prevent conflict of interest, defined by the same code as what happens “when employees have or may likely to have private or personal interests in a particular matter that may influence, directly or indirectly, or appear to influence, the impartial and objective performance of their functions, “cites the newspaper public .
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