Tax workers taxes will continue to receive 5% of the amount raked in this year by ‘coercive collections’ - tax foreclosure proceedings.
The percentage again was set at the maximum 5%, as in previous years, as the government shies away from threatened strike action from members of the Tax Workers Union.
Portugal’s Chartered Accountants body has applied in court for an extension of tax submission deadlines due to ‘recurrent problems’ with the Finanças website.
The injunction was lodged today in the Tax Court of Lisbon in the face of the government's view that ‘statistics show’ that the Finanças web portal is operational.
The England football team again is off to the Algarve, viewing it as an ideal training ground as the squad prepares for the World Cup.
The Football Association said that Vale do Lobo has been chosen for a five days session between 19 and 23 May.
In the face of the carefully orchestrated government campaign to persuade the nation how well everything is going, the truth in the hotel and restaurant industry is that job losses have been running at 315 each and every day since the start of this year.
The hoteliers and restaurateurs association is of course desperately concerned with "the worst results ever" which were released by the independent National Statistics Institute last Friday.
Despite nearly 6% of Portuguese adults having drink problems, over four in ten say they do not drink alcohol at all, well, in the last year anyway
The women are ahead with over half (54% ) not touching a drop of the hard stuff, or even the not so hard stuff as wine is far and away the favourite alcoholic drink in the country accounting for 55% of all alcohol consumed.
Despite many councils receiving state loans to pay off their debts last year, the amount they owe to Portugal’s national water supplier rose last year by €5 million.
The Águas de Portugal accounts were approved on Tuesday but did not make happy reading as the company attempts to groom itself for probable, yet hotly denied, privatisation.
The Algarve’s councils have signed a protocol today in Faro that see the region’s firemen able to earn an additional €15 a day.
The Special Device to Combat Forest Fires (DECIF) 2014 agrees to add the sum to the government allowance of €45 per man, per day.
A breakfast meeting between Portugal’s President Cavaco Silva and bosses from local companies, including China Eastern Airlines, has resulted in an agreement in principle for a direct air route between Shanghai and Lisbon.
The new route, probably to be run by a Chinese company such as China Eastern Airlines, is seen as crucial for boosting tourism, according to a statement today from Economy Minister, Pires de Lima .
