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The Ministry of Finance announced today that it will cancel the € 75 fines for self-employed workers who have lost their income and who have retroactively reopened their activity in order to benefit from Extraordinary Support for the Reduction of Self-Employed Economic Activity.
“Considering that the actions of the State must be uniform, the Undersecretary of State for Tax Affairs, António Mendonça Mendes, together with the Secretary of State for Social Security, Gabriel Bastos, considers that the conditions to be determined will be determined by the Tax Authority. and Customs (AT) the nullity of the respective administrative offenses and the respective fines, “according to a statement released today by the Government.
The guardianship indicates that this extraordinary support is based on the “opening of activity as a freelancer” and that the form was made available in September “due to the need to operationalize the support.”
“The Government has ensured that Social Security will transmit to AT the universe of people benefiting from the benefit, repairing the situation to this universe of beneficiaries automatically (cancellation of initiated procedures and eventual return of fines in the meantime paid)”, according to the statement issued.
“Without prejudice to the law that requires the declaration of beginning of activity – declarative obligation that is reaffirmed must be fulfilled punctually by all economic agents – the situation under consideration justifies this decision, to the extent that the condition of access to aid it is the entry of these workers into the system ”, concludes the guardianship.
The Precários Inflexíveis association reported today that the Tax Authority is imposing fines of 75 euros on precarious workers who have lost their income and are resorting to the new “Extraordinary Support for Workers”.
The association said Tuesday that many of these workers informed the association that they were unable to submit the application for support for July, due to the short deadline to submit the application (one week, without notice) and the time it takes to confirm. the reopening of activity.
“As a result of late and inaccurate information released by the Social Security Institute (ISS), many people began to work as self-employed from July, before the time of application, which led TA to consider that there was a delay in ordering and applying blind fines ”, denounces the association.
The organization also adds that many people were also prevented from applying because they could not “open activity on time or because they opened in September, the month in which support forms were finally made available.”
According to the ACP, “after the enormous delay in the application of the measure and the lack of adequate regulation, it was the information from the ISS, two months after the entry into force of the provision, which led the precarious to request the opening of the activity with effect from the previous month, so as not to lose support. The Government is responsible for this situation and must immediately eliminate these fines ”, he argues.
The association points out these difficulties to the “delays and irresponsible management of the Ministry of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security in all the application of this extraordinary support”, and adds that “two months after the start of the support period, it has still not been paid . No provision was published or the Ordinance that should regulate the measure, as provided in the article of the Supplementary Budget Law that created the support. These issues add injustice to insufficient and inappropriate support, as we have said since it was passed. At the option of the Government, it excludes many people and does not respond adequately to the urgent situation of those who suffer doubly the effects of the most extreme precariousness, with loss of income and with social vulnerability ”.
Inflexible populations denounce that tax authorities are fining workers who expect extraordinary support with 75 euros
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