Carf suspends sessions after IRS inspectors strike – 05/16/2023 – Panel SA

The Carf (Administrative Council of Tax Appeals) suspended this Tuesday (16) all nine judgments of the week. The reason is the adhesion of the councilors representing the National Treasury to the strike movement of the Federal Revenue Service.

On the agenda of the classes, around R$ 20 billion in tax debts questioned by the companies in the Carf were at stake.

On the first day of shutdowns at the Revenue, the tax auditors chose to protest against the lack of investment in technology and did not use the agency’s computers. Other mobilization actions are being discussed, according to inspectors.

The strike is a response by civil servants to the breach of an agreement reached with the Lula government in which funds would be released to pay efficiency bonuses to tax auditors. The right questioned by them became law in 2017, but remains without government regulation.

The money was promised in March by Revenue Secretary Robinson Barreirinhas, but President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s decree has not yet been published – the estimated impact of the measure is nearly BRL 900 million per year on Union coffers.

Internally, auditors comment that the expectation of Minister Fernando Haddad (Finance) to recover around R$ 90 billion in revenues may be frustrated or take longer to materialize. Everything will depend on the government’s effort to release the bonus for efficiency.

There are more than 5,000 companies that need to be notified for having irregularly deducted amounts from Income Tax and CSLL (Social Contribution on Net Income) on tax incentives granted by the states.

In addition to the lack of investment in technology and bonuses for efficiency, civil servants also question the lack of public tenders to replace the 40% loss of staff in recent years.

With Diego Felix

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