New data protection measures can cost about 5 … – Business Journal – Portugal

Data protection measures taxpayers that the Tax Authority (AT) intends to apply can cost five million euros by 2017, more than half a computerized mechanism to monitor the access of workers to tax information.

After the case of ‘VIP list’ and the reports of the National Commission for Data Protection (NCDP) and the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF), both very critical of Treasury’s actions in With regard to the protection of taxpayer information, the Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs, Paulo Nuncio (pictured) called on the AT to submit to the Government an action plan, which was made on Friday, 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 data of taxpayers who may cost more than half of the five million euros to be spent with about 30 measures planned by 2017.

This mechanism provides for the creation of a blank space where workers should previously explain why the access to information of 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.

A ‘VIP’ pocket, as was 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 deputy prime 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 defended those involved in the creation of ‘VIP list’ were the subject of disciplinary proceedings:. in both cases, are still not known the results

The case eventually caused the resignation of the then Director-General of 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.