Portal of Finance had peak access on the last day of the validation of invoices – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

The Portal of Finance registered a peak of hits on Monday, the last day that taxpayers had to confirm the outstanding bills on your personal page in E-Invoice.

according to data published by the Ministry of Finance, on that day the system held about 27 million transactions in response to requests from taxpayers. It is a record “record of electronic transactions in one day,” said the ministry in a statement. The day before, for example, the number of operations had remained below 15 000, show figures released by Finance.

About 1.4 million taxpayers authenticated up on 22 February. Initially, the deadline for the validation of invoices issued last year ended on 15 February, but the government decided to take another week for citizens to do it.

a few hours to finish this period would later be extended, a system error prevented the citizens validate the time information. in the last days of the period, it was confirmed that there was a “concentration hits. “

in order to address access in recent days, was then assembled a” contingency plan “to ensure the” availability of E-Invoice system to taxpayers, without loss of performance capability of the remaining services provided in the Portal of Finance “.

This is because the deadline for confirmation of invoices coincided with” the deadline for delivery by all companies (individual and collective), the personal and corporate income withholding source, as well as stamp duty, with the performance replied system with full success, “the ministry led by Mário Centeno.

with the postponement of the deadline for the validation of invoices, the ministry also decided expand the following deadlines to delivery of IRS statements, whose dates have also changed.

the deadline for the Tax Authority and Customs provide the final value of deductions from taxpayers in the E-Invoice site now becomes be on 15 March (instead of 1 March). From this new date until March 31, taxpayers may claim the Portal of Finance or a finance service values ​​of deductions calculated by the tax authorities.

This is the first year in which the vast majority deductions to the IRS collection (relative to 2015) are automatically calculated based on invoices submitted to the tax authorities

How is a year of adjustment, the government set up a transitional regime for some expenses. – education, health , homes and property charges – can be presented in the statement of IRS income. In this case, the calculation of tax deduction shall take into account the value declared by subject IRS liability, replacing the bill that has been communicated to the tax authorities.