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2019-05-30
José Pedro Barros speaks to Jornal Económico about the mechanisms for detecting tax fraud

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José Pedro Barros, Associate of the CCA’s Tax Department, in declarations to Jornal Económico, analyzes the different mechanisms for detecting and combating tax evasion available to the Tax Authority (TA), as well as the type of events that can "trigger" alerts in the TA system.

"In view of the many mechanisms available and the absence of banking secrecy practiced before the TA, the latter has extensive information either to apply indirect methods to displays of wealth or to trigger tax inspections. And the TA does not do it more assertively because it does not have enough staff to do so", says José Pedro Barros.