tax offices cease to close at lunchtime – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

The Customer Service of the Tax Authority services (AT) will be reformulated and, from this Friday, all tax offices will function without interruption at lunchtime. According to a statement from the Ministry of Finance, released on Thursday, in all 342 of the country’s finances services “the doors are now open to the public, without interruption, between 9am and 15:30.”

Currently, continuous hours of service was only followed by 22 offices, to cover all the others.

This change will mean that, in the afternoon, the services earlier close, although the Total stay open longer hours. The practiced time here was from 9 am to 16:30, with a break for lunch between 12.30 and 14h. That is, they were opened six hours a day. From Friday, now have their doors open from 9 to 15:30, which corresponds to six hours.

“It is noted that the overall time of service to the public in the case the overwhelming majority of financial services, increased or remained “adds an official source of the ministry led by Mário Centeno.

in the Citizen Shops, financial services will continue to work at the usual time.

the changes also include the 54 customs offices and customs posts throughout the country. The opening hours shall be from 9h to 17h, “there is no stopping place in service during the lunch period.”

An official source assured the public that “keep specific times adequate to ensure performance of customs duties of ports and airports and other special times due to requests from economic operators and existing specific times for workers performing duties in the customs offices and customs posts. “

the Ministry Finance justifies the changes in service in order to “allow people to move to financial services during your lunch hour, in order to be better suited to the needs of all citizens.”

changes to opening hours come into force on the same day that begins to be applied to state employees (with employment contract in public functions) the replacement of 35 hours per week.

when questioned by PUBLIC about this coincidence, an official source said that “regardless of the entry into force of the 35 hours have meant a reformulation of times towards these services are open at lunchtime.” Thus, he concludes, “made to match both to be treated simultaneously.”