The commission set up to simplify the tax process will be chaired by the inspector and former secretary of state Rogério Fernandes Ferreira and will have to present legislative changes to the government within six months, although the deadline may be extended for a further three months.
The initiative to create the Commission for the Revision of the Tax Process and Procedure and Taxpayers' Guarantees is part of the objectives of promoting competitiveness and “reformulating tax justice” that appear in the Government Programme, as well as the intention to find legislative solutions “that combat the permeability to corruption”.
The aim is for the commission to submit to the government ‘a draft of legislative changes within six months of the publication of this order, extendable for a further three months, if necessary, at the request of its chairman addressed to the Secretary of State for Tax Affairs’. .
Chaired by our colleague Rogério Fernandes Ferreira, a specialist in tax law, who was secretary of state in the government of António Guterres, the commission has ten other members, who ‘waive any kind of remuneration for the work carried out within the scope of this commission’.
