The Entity for Transparency (EpT) does not know the exact number of politicians and public office holders who are obligated to submit income declarations. This situation arises in a context where the entity faces significant difficulties in identifying and monitoring the taxable persons.
The Constitutional Court shares this same difficulty and acknowledges the same gap in obtaining accurate data on who is effectively obligated to declare. Both entities point to the same cause for this inability to quantify.
The reason given for this failure in quantification is the lack of collaboration from the public entities where the holders exercised their functions. Without the cooperation of these entities, it becomes impossible to track and confirm which individuals should be covered by the income declaration obligation.
This situation raises questions about the effectiveness of the transparency system in Portugal and about the authorities' ability to oversee compliance with declaration obligations by public office holders.
