Fisco attachment food served at a meal in February – Express

A “breaded prawns apart with orange sauce”, a “green salad (lettuce and chicory),” a “cod with spinach gratin,” a “cheesecake with red fruit coulis”, “rolls (including cover charge) “a” Waiter (pack ‘corporate lunches’) “and a” delivery within Lisbon “were seized by the tax office of Viana do Castelo.

Yes, you read well, not the employee of the restaurant, which provided the meal to a Lisbon company escapes the attachment of notification dated 16 last June. At issue is the value of the service provided by the waiter (€ 65), but it is still another case, along with the food in question, which adds to the list of liens unusual. And that has been going after the measures taken by the Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs, in April, to avoid such situations.

More. Lunch concerned, amounting to € 192.82 (the salad and rolls were free, but contained the same although the attachment of zero), was served almost four months before the seizure on 25 February. At issue is a debt restaurant to Finance that crossed with the electronic waybill generated the ridiculous order of attachment.

In the notification, the Tax and Customs Authority (AT) indicates the institution that enjoyed the meal that “should consider pledged, in favor of that tax office, the goods identified in the transport document (…) for payment of the enforceable debt (…) under the tax foreclosure process. ”

The institution was also learned that was named “trustee” of the food consumed four months before as well as employee and delivery service. And who has five working days to inform the tax authorities about the “possible absence, total or partial, of the property seized.”

Automations hinder
With the electronic guides, Finance started to cross the data of goods transported with ongoing tax collection processes and thus to act with more efficiently in order to recover taxes lacking through the seizure of assets or future claims of the debtors. However, the automatic, blind, created embarrassment tax machine, with successive food liens, for example. There were even cases of confiscation of food donated to charities.

In April, the government put brake to these automated systems. In the case of perishable goods, the liens were suspended food contained in the electronic delivery notes when the recipient are individuals or private social welfare institutions (not the case with the organization that received this notification in Lisbon, the IRS coming of Viana Castle), leaving the delivery notes to be used for coercive collection.

The Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs said that the same procedure is being extended to other situations, “particularly when concerning other entities.” The same official source maintains that, as a result of the measures taken, these cases “are becoming less common (or virtually non-existent) when they are detected and are given instructions to be corrected.” It is also emphasized that the reform of the transport documents has been very effective in the prevention and detection of fraud and tax evasion in transactions between companies and “one of the main reasons for the good performance of VAT revenue this year (9.2% growth up April). ”