Corregidor says cuts in revenue trigger fight against corruption | New

The memorandum was sent directly to the special secretary of the Federal Tax Service, Marcos Cintra. The federal income magistrate, José Pereira de Barros Neto, criticizes a decree signed by President Jair Bolsonaro in early January, which changes the structure of the body.

In the document, he says that with the edict of the decree, the Internal Revenue Office suffered heavy losses in its central command, with the extinction of a Operational and divisional coordination, in addition, three important services were converted into consulting services. .

The corregidor also said he took note of a proposed amendment to the decree stating the removal of five of the ten offices of the tax administration. According to the corregedor, these changes represent a dismantling of the body, which would have a disastrous effect on the fight against corruption with accusations of denunciations, a slowing of the pace of investigations and a paralysis of joint work with the Federal Police and the prosecutor's office .

The Tax Ombudsman is one of the oldest executive power control bodies and one of the most fired servers for fraud and corruption.

According to the National Association of Revenue Auditors, the corregidor memorandum raised concerns. In a statement, Unafisco said: "We hope that the announced adjustments will not be the result of a deliberate action to make the work of the department impractical, only because of the lack of knowledge about the operation of the public machine. ".

Sindifisco, in a note also, stated that he hoped that "any changes in the administrative organization of this sector of federal revenue and other sectors will be the subject of discussion with tax auditors to avoid any negative impact on the activities of the Internal Revenue Service. ".

In a note, Revenue stated that the reduction of physical structures and management positions did not mean a dismantling of anti-corruption work and that increasingly Revenue servers were doing their work remotely , including telecommuting, and the overworked servers of the Internal Revenue Service were mbadively badociated with telework, which, in practice, empties rooms, tables and physical structures.

By telephone, the special secretary of the Internal Revenue Service, Marcos Cintra, said that there was an ongoing fiscal adjustment effort to the government and that it was so necessary to reduce spending and reorganize the administration of some public bodies, In a short time, the government thought weaken the fight against corruption. On the contrary, he wants to reinforce the structures confronted with this type of crime.

"What we are looking for is the search for efficiency, productivity, and exceptional cost reduction." The tax adjustment wants you to do There are fats, there are duplicate structures, there are forms of organization that are useless, even depending on the current technological development, the possibility of using the technologies of the Afterwards, all these variables will be badyzed to obtain higher productivity without any loss of the end object of the activities.On the contrary, we want to improve the fight against corruption and the compliance rules, which are extremely important. , especially in an organization such as the Internal Revenue Service, "said Cintra.