The battle that the president of Sporting football club is engaged in with the Tax Authority continues. Between February 27 and March 7th this year, Bruno de Carvalho filed four counter claims to four tax enforcement proceedings for a debt of almost €3.3 million.All of the lawsuits were filed with the Lisbon Tax Court, with the first three filed against the Lisbon Finance Department and the last one (filed on July 7th) filed against the Tax Justice Service (DSJT), the body that that oversees the execution of tax debts.
'Brexit fears' have restricted the flow of Portuguese workers moving to the UK with 26% fewer opting for grey northern climes last year, compared to 2016.
After storm Felix exhausts itself, to the detriment of Portugal’s coastline and agricultural infrastructure, Portugal’s weather service has warned of the next event, storm Gisele.
An inevitable explosion of indignation has been heard from the offices of the Portuguese Hotels Association and the Algarve’s regional hoteliers’ trade body over the proposal by the region’s mayors to introduce a ‘tourist tax.’
The audit of Silves council finances, ordered by the Public Prosecutor's Office and carried out in the last quarter of 2017, has resulted in the Court of Auditors issuing a (reduced) demand for €260,000, to be paid by the former mayors Isabel Soares and Rogério Pinto.
In an effort to attract film and television production, Portugal is introducing a new incentive programme, offering substantial rebates of 25 percent of the cost of production up to €4 million per project.
Oskar Groening, the former Auschwitz guard convicted in his 90s for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at the concentration camp, has died in Germany, writes the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Luís Graça has been elected leader of the regional Socialist Party in the Algarve, taking over from António Eusébio.
