After the case of ‘VIP list’ and the National Data Protection Commission reports (ICPD) and the Finance General Inspection (IGF), both very critical of Treasury’s actions with regard to the protection of information taxpayers, Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs, Paul Nuncio asked the AT to submit to the Government a plan of action, which was made on Friday, they told the Lusa agency sources of finance.
Among the main measures of the action plan, presented by the Director-General of the Treasury, Helena Borges, is the implementation of a computer system to control access to tax information from taxpayers, which could cost more than half EUR five million of which will be spent with about 30 measures provided for by 2017.
This mechanism provides for the creation of a blank space where workers should previously explain why access to information a taxpayer (a more immediate measure) as well as the monitoring and archiving of these accesses and the definition of risk behaviors that any undue access to data can be detected (2017).
The ICPD and the IGF confirmed the existence of the controversial ‘VIP list’ of taxpayers, which operated through an alarm that recorded the access of workers from AT to tax data only four taxpayers, differing treatment between taxpayers.
The ‘VIP bag’, as it was also called, worked for about four months and monitored only access to tax information of the President of the Republic, Cavaco Silva, Prime Minister Passos Coelho, the vice -first minister, Paulo Portas, and the Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs, Paulo Nuncio, a discriminatory measure of protection from the obligation of tax secrecy of all taxpayers.
The conclusions of the ICPD were forwarded to the prosecutor and the IGF argued that those involved in the creation of ‘VIP list’ were the subject of disciplinary proceedings: in both cases, the results are not yet known.
The case eventually caused the resignation of the director general of the AT, António Afonso fights, and then deputy director-general of the Tax Justice and Customs, José Maria Pires. Helena Borges is leading the IRS to replace regime, while running the tender for the selection of a new director-general.
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