Africa-Press – Angola. A book entitled “Contencioso Tributário Angolano” was launched on Wednesday in Luanda, with a view to reinforcing the safeguarding of taxpayers’ rights and interests, authored by university professor Tito Cambanje.
The academic work, consisting of 303 pages, is aimed essentially at students, businessmen, accountants, economists and legal practitioners.
The author of the book considered “Tax Litigation” as a set of laws and rules available to safeguard the rights and interests of taxpayers, being one of the mechanisms that the taxpayer can use when he feels that his rights have been violated.
For the lawyer, the launch of this book will enable readers to have more control over matters related to the General Tax Code and Tax Execution Code, as well as better understand the impact of tax reform on the process of revenue collection for the State.
In Tito Cambanje’s view, the current Angolan reality shows that private agents have more fiscal citizenship and culture of paying their taxes, as a result of the reforms carried out in the General Tax Administration (AGT) and the behavioral change of taxpayers.
Despite acknowledging the evolution of the Angolan tax reform, the lecturer advocates the need to update the Customs Code, which still grants powers to the tax directors of the AGT to judge cases within the jurisdiction of the courts.
For the jurist, there is excessive intervention by the AGT in tax foreclosures, with the attribution of broad powers to the heads of tax offices, who continue the administrative attachments.
“Too many powers were conferred on AGT, through the head of a tax office, who has the power to pledge the bank details of taxpayers, without prior hearing of debtors with a value from two million and 500 thousand kwanzas, a measure considered unconstitutional” , underlined the author in the first chapter of his book.
In turn, lawyer Avelino Capaco considered the launch of the tax litigation book to be extremely important, as it is one of the few Angolan works that address issues of the genre.
According to the specialist, this book enriches the scientific knowledge of the academies and empowers tax policy makers.
However, he referred that there are few cases of tax litigation in Angola, for reasons still unknown.
The act of launching the book Contencioso Tributário Angolano was marked by the massive presence of students, teachers, jurists, businessmen, specialists from different areas of knowledge, members of the Government and traditional authorities, who filled the room of one of the hotels in the capital of Angola country.
On the occasion, the author of the work offered 300 books to the students who witnessed the ceremony. In addition, 200 copies of this work were sold, at the price of ten thousand kwanzas each.
According to Tito Cambanje, a total of 1,000 books will be offered, to be distributed in libraries in the country’s 18 provinces.QCB/AC
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