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The government will introduce in the state budget an amendment that will allow ViaCTT other means of electronic notification of green revenues and businesses, said Tuesday the State Secretary for Tax Affairs . "We are working so that we can present as part of the state budget [para 2019] an amendment to the general tax law which allows, in addition to ViaCTT, other means of ensuring the notification "said the State Secretary for Tax Affairs, António Mendonça Mendes, in Parliament
However, a legislative amendment should not be necessary. As the observer reported Friday that this alternative already exists, it is simply not operational. The Portuguese State approved a year and a half ago a bill that was to be promulgated by the President of the Republic last summer for the creation of a "digital unique address", which certify any e-mail address – any gmail or hotmail, for example – with public administration and, basically, to terminate the registration requirement in ViaCTT.
The problem is that this service, which was supposed to be ready in the second half of last year, is still not operational. In fact, there have already been two calls for public tenders for the creation of the service, and there is no estimate as to when it might work.
Nevertheless, António Mendonça Mendes announced in Parliament that the government was working. find an alternative. On the same subject, the State Secretary argued that electronic notification is important, not only environmentally but also for the "promotion of legal certainty", that is to say that 39, it must guarantee the date of warning.
Accession to electronic notification via ViaCTT is mandatory for self-employed and businesses since 2012, but a recent audit of the tax administration concluded that this obligation was not fulfilled, which led to the taxpayers
In a first reaction, the Secretary of State stated that taxpayers could request the remission of the fine, alleging the absence of "loss of income" and of "negligible culpability".
] Later, the Ministry of Finance announced that it had suspended the collection of fines on self-employed workers and businesses
"I have order to suspend all cases of". misconduct, ensuring that this obligation is ignored for the future and to ensure, within the framework of the principle of equality, that those who have paid [as coimas] have the same treatment, "said António Mendonca Mendes in parliament.
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