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The general secretary of the Acre State Tax Union (Sindifisco-AC), Leyla Alves, warned of a blackout in state revenue in the coming years due to the retirement of tax auditors. She pointed out that, currently, the Tax Authority operates at 56% of its capacity, meaning it could lose more colleagues.
Speech took place during a hearing at Aleac/Photo: Reproduction
The union leader pointed out that the current situation is desperate, that 28 colleagues are ready to retire today, and that in the coming years another 10 could retire. This will result in a number of active employees of less than 50%, compromising revenue, which, consequently, may affect the functioning of the state. The request for help was made during the public hearing to debate the Annual Budget Law (LOA) of 2025, at the Legislative Assembly of Acre (Aleac).
“There are 85 auditors working, a number lower than the total number of vacancies available, which is 150. Of these, we have 18 who can retire today, and he highlighted that they have the help of ten more colleagues, ARE II, a position that is being eliminated, who work at the secretariat and at tax offices and they will also be able to apply for retirement, and ten others who should have the same right in the coming years. So we will have less than 50% of the workforce. I would also like to highlight that we have colleagues who are working in three different sectors, causing stress, exhaustion, in other words, the auditors are becoming ill due to excessive work, I can say that it is inhumane. Therefore, if there is no hiring, we could have a blackout”, explained Leyla Alves.
Alves asked the technical team for help to resolve the problem, with the aim of guaranteeing the payment of salaries for all government employees, avoiding delays, he spoke of the chaos of the state pension deficit and that for this not to happen it is necessary to disclose the result of Sefaz’s public competition, its approval and the immediate call for 65 auditors to increase revenue, so the state will be able to call for other careers, and even provide better working conditions for active auditors.
“A lot was said about expenses, but there was no talk about own revenue. We had an increase in revenue through transfers this year, and also in our own collection, which has been growing over more than 10 years, due to the effort and commitment of auditors to increase collection, and in the month of November we had a record collection, of 203 million. Another situation that I come to warn about is that if the exemption from the IR limit is increased to R$ 5 thousand reais, if this happens, the state will lose resources”, concluded the representative of Sindifisco-AC.
