Africa-Press – Angola. Nine hundred and ninety-nine (999) public and private companies, in Cabinda, owe more than one billion kwanzas to the National Social Security Institute (INSS), in Cabinda.
These companies have not paid their workers’ mandatory social benefits since 2000.
In statements Thursday, the head of the provincial services of the National Social Security Institute in Cabinda, Hilário Joaquim, said that the sector adopted coercive collection measures against the respective companies, within the scope of the social security system in course across the country.
He mentioned that, in this first coercive phase, which started in April this year, the INSS notified 350 companies out of the 999 registered, through the database.
Of the companies already notified, a total of 203 of them presented their proof of payment to the INSS, which estimated a value of 52 million 986 thousand 381 kwanzas.
For Hilário Joaquim, companies in the service provision, industry, commerce, hotel and tourism and agriculture sectors are the most non-compliant.
He stressed that the process will continue with the notification of more companies, although many of them have changed their initial addresses, contained in the INSS database.
Coercive collection is set out in Presidential Decree number 2/19, which establishes the legal regime for regularization, collection of taxpayers and beneficiaries from the entity responsible for mandatory social protection.
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