More than 2 thousand Tax and Customs employees will retire by 2025, almost half will leave financial services in addition to 341 from central services.
The forecast for the number of people retiring is contained in AT’s Strategic Plan 2023-2025, which has now been released, and has AT pointing to the “high average age” of its workers and a shortage of people with skills. in new areas of knowledge, among the “weak points” he identifies on the horizon.
Analyzing the development of its human resources for the period from 2023 to 2025, AT expects that a total of 2,020 workers will retire by then, and this estimate is made on the assumption that these workers will only leave active life when they have achieved legal retirement. pension. age.
Of this total, which corresponds to 19% of the employees of the company headed by Helena Borges, 385 people occupy management positions, that is, about a quarter of AT managers. On the other hand, the majority of those who will retire by 2025 are women (1,259) and 761 men.
The document clarifies that of the 341 central services employees who will leave by 2025, more than half (55%) will work in the areas of tax and customs, including the department of large taxpayers (UCG), financial resources, assets and information systems.
Recognizing the need to continue to exploit the opportunities offered by new technologies, AT also recalls the other side of this evolution, highlighting that the growth of the digital economy poses increasingly complex challenges for tax and customs authorities, making it one of the main threats facing tax and customs authorities . identifies, along with an increase in the complexity of fraud and tax evasion or an increase in the level of threats from an IT security perspective.
“Alongside the growing level of demand, the organization is grappling with the need to rejuvenate and strengthen its human capital as a result of the strong restrictions in terms of recruitment that have been imposed on the public administration for several years, which has implications for the necessary exchange of knowledge between different generations of workers and skills which each demonstrates most clearly,” says the report, which includes attracting and retaining human resources in its strategy.