Beira institutions owe over 350 million meticais to INSS
(AIM) – Various institutions in the central city of Beira owe over 350 million meticais (5.5 million US dollars at the current exchange rate) to Mozambique’s National Social Security Institute (INSS).
According to the INSS delegate in Beira, Jaime Chicamisse, cited in Thursday’s issue of the Maputo daily “Notícias”, this amount is an accumulated debt over several years.
“For the current year, we established a goal of recovering 98 million meticais but we only have about 75 million so far. Much of this amount is the result of extra-judicial collections or pay by instalment agreements”, he said.
Chicamisse said that any debt is dynamic, “subjected to increase or decrease, and charged in a peaceful way through awareness campaigns or through coercive charges through the bodies of the administration of justice.”
Therefore, he said, the INSS is carrying out actions in order to make the managers of various institutions aware of the need to pay their debts. They are effectively stealing the money from their workers, since social security contributions are discounted from wages, but the managers do not channel the money to the INSS.
“20 companies have to face the courts and, because of that, they have been paying their debts”, Chicamisse said, appreciating the collaboration of tax execution judges in recovering the debts.
(AIM)
