Around 100 billion kwanzas is the amount that 57 thousand public and private companies in the country owe to the National Social Security Institute (INSS), resulting from the non-payment of their workers’ mandatory social benefits.
The debt in question refers to the period from 2008 to 2023, said yesterday, in Malanje, the head of the INSS Debt Regularization and Collection Department, Lourenço da Silva, during a lecture on the Coercive Taxpayer Collection Process. He pointed out companies in the service, industry, commerce and agriculture sectors as being the most non-compliant.
He regretted the fact that the companies in question made discounts to workers, but did not allocate them to Social Security, which is why, after years of raising awareness, the process of coercive collection at country level began last March, which consists of the seizure of assets, starting with Bank accounts.
He made it known that, since the start of the coercive method, 20 cases have already been initiated in the provinces of Luanda, Malanje, Huíla and Cabinda.
Lourenço da Silva said that, during the voluntary payment period, taxpayers who do not have cash flow can negotiate the debt in up to 60 installments, thus avoiding accumulating debt.
In turn, the Provincial Finance Delegate of Malanje, Ricardo Garcia, highlighted the need for companies to pay mandatory social benefits, so that workers and their families can benefit from them in the future.
He added that this right protects workers in cases of reduced work capacity, maternity, accidents, occupational diseases, unemployment, old age and death, as well as in situations of worsening family burdens.
Coercive collection is set out in Presidential Decree No. 2/19, of March 11, which establishes the Legal Regime for Regularization, Collection of Taxpayers and Benefits for the Management Entity of Mandatory Social Protection.