Daily, face-to-face service without appointments to become compulsory in all public services
Government unveils First phase of Public Administration Reform The government has pledged to ensure that “from now on it is compulsory for all State departments” to have a “daily service
Finanças warns of new fraudulent email campaign
The AT tax authority (Finanças) warns today of a new fraudulent email campaign attempting to get taxpayers to ‘update their details’ for access to the Finanças site. Anyone receiving any
Tax authority warns of phishing emails
“These messages are false and should be ignored” – Finanças The Portuguese Tax and Customs Authority (AT) warned on Wednesday that false emails were being sent purportedly from the “Autoridade
Lawyers indignant as tax authority probes VIPs who took fiscal amnesties
Law firms are indignant as the AT tax authority has started asking inconvenient questions to high-flyers who took advantage of fiscal amnesties to bring money back to Portugal over a
Operation ‘Off Side’ targets country’s top football clubs and personalities
Operation ‘Off Side’ – the largest investigation in the history of Portugal’s tax department – swooped into action yesterday (Wednesday) searching football clubs and the properties of agents, players and
Taxman “finds more super-rich by cross-referencing data”
Portugal’s AT tax department has “detected another 921 private high net worth individuals” by cross referencing data now available through the ‘automatic exchange of banking information’. Secretary of State for
Tax department ordered to cough up (again) over excessive charges on imported vehicles
For the second time in as many months the tax department has been ordered to cough up for excessive ISV duty charged on an imported used car. This time round
Taxman seizes four 0.30 cêntimo cakes from company owing €92,000
A restaurant with a tax debt of €92,000 has seen four cakes “seized” by the Autoridade Tributária (AT). The total cost of the cakes came to €1.20. Taxmen have since
VIP taxpayers’ list scandal: new tax bosses needed
The government is currently seeking replacements for the two high-level tax bosses who resigned last week following the furore caused by the so-called “VIP tax list” scandal. António Brigas Afonso
Alert over “risk of collapse” of tax authority portal
As judicial portal CITIUS remains “slow and missing at least half-a-million cases”, Portugal’s leading IT boss has warned that the next online government system heading to crash is that of