A report from the Consumer Protection Association, Deco, today said what most water customers already know, water tariffs in Portugal are "incoherent" and "continue to be guided by inequality."
According to Deco, "from north to south and from the coast to the interior, tariffs continue to be guided by inequality."
The Inspector General of Finance has confirmed that there was indeed a VIP Taxpayers list and calls for some sort of disciplinary action to be taken against those officials involved in drawing up the list whose existence was denied at senior level until uncovered by media investigation.
The Inspector Generral's report concluded that within the treasury there indeed was a system to monitor and protect access to the data of various big-wigs, using an "unfounded, arbitrary and discriminatory" scheme.
The executive director of the Portuguese Association of Resorts said today that delays in the Golden Visa application process, apparent since November last year, has led to a loss of foreign investment of €185 million.
"We are very concerned about the delays that have been occurring since about November. From the data that we have seen, up to November there were about 150 Golden Visa being issued each month on average ... and the average in the five months subsequent to November has fallen by half," according to Pedro Fontainhas, director of the association.
Internet use is expected to be available to half of the world’s population by the end of this year.
Some 3.2 billion people predicted to be online, out of the world population of 7.2 billion. About 2 billion of these will be in parts of the developing world.
Amazon could be changing its stripes by altering the way it records sales.
The move appears to come during the course of a formal EU investigation, opened last year, to consider the tax arrangements between Amazon and Luxembourg.
French legislation banning the destruction of edible food could go global if the man behind the scheme has his way.
Arash Derambarsh, a local councillor in a Paris suburb, has campaigned against food waste and this led to a national law obliging French supermarkets to find outlets, such as charities, for its unsold but edible food stuffs.
A poll of more than 35,000 football fans in 30 countries has been taken in the run up to the election to pick the next president of FIFA, world football’s governing body.
The results showed that four out of five fans do not think Sepp Blatter should stand for the post and 69.2% said they had 'no confidence' in FIFA.
A seminar in Albufeira, attended by 200 delegates, was devoted unravelling the new ‘local lettings’ legislation launched on April 21st, 2015 by the Secretary of State for Tourism, Adolfo Mesquita Nunes.
There are many questions but few clear answers for owners and companies involved in the buoyant lettings market and in this third such session hosted by Moneris, the attendees included property owners, business people, lawyers, solicitors and accountants.
