Os Tax Authority employees are on strike this Thursday and Friday. The Tax Workers Union indicated that 70% of more than 300 finance services were closed existing throughout the country. The workers then gathered in front of Parliament, in a protest action.
Tax workers threw dozens of tax codes onto the steps of the in a symbolic act to protest against excessive work and lack of personnel in finance services, during a demonstration that brought together thousands in Lisboa.
Outputs from Largo do Carmo, around 2 thousand employees from AT – Tax Authority arrived at Parliament at 3 pm and threw dozens of codes of tax law, general tax law, IRC manual, IRS manual, inspection regulations, code of procedure administrative, among others.
“Those ones codes have a thousand and so many pages, when I entered the AT in two years I didn’t learn, neither close nor far away, and the codes are updated two and three times each year. They are a symbol of our work, for them see what we have to study”, said Zélia Lopes, president of the district board of (STI) of Leiria.
Few and old
Second the tax employee, the main thing about this demonstration is not even the salaries, which she considered also need to be valued, but to make it clear how services, especially local ones, “are slowly dying, depleted, with people aged”.
A employee recalled that the Federal Revenue Service is responsible for collecting taxes that finance schools, health, roads, etcbut that has tinsufficient workers for needs and average age of 56 years. Furthermore, he stated, Of the almost 10 thousand AT employees, around 3 thousand will retire in the next four to five years.
About competition open this year to fill 390 vacanciesZélia Lopes clearly considered insufficient and what does not even provide a new employee for each finance service.
Luís Agostinho, from the Porto Finance Department, told Lusa that he came to Lisbon to demonstrate edemand that careers be valued and that more employees be hired because those that exist are few and aged.
“They are better salary and working conditions are required, the age of the staff can no longer be tolerated”, he told Lusa, adding that problems ofburnout‘.
Strike: what do workers demand?
A strike was scheduled in mid-October, during a general meeting of workers, with advance notice of the strike for December 19th and 20th being sent following the lack of response from the Government to claims.
Between as requirements of the STI are a additional increase of 10% per yearstarting in 2025 and ending in 2027in order to compensate for losses in purchasing power and align with the salary increase in other general careers that saw their salary table revised in 2023 and progressions at most every six years so that it is possible reach the top of your career in 30 years work.
O STI also demands an immediate resolution of the problem of unlicensed colleagues, that workers be given the “necessary authority” to carry out their mission or even a “strict regime” of admissions to AT and exclusive access to tax and customs functions based on rules defined in the current career regime.
