Source: Tax News

The institute's executive president, Roberto Abdenur, will participate in a panel at ENCAT with representatives from the Finance Secretariats of SP and MG

The executive president of the Brazilian Institute of Ethics in Competition (ETCO), Roberto Abdenur, will participate next Wednesday (20), at 9:40 am, of the 47th National Meeting of State Tax Coordinators and Administrators (ENCAT), in Salvador, Bahia. The executive will give a lecture during the panel Combating Illegal Trade, which will also be attended by the representative of the Finance Secretariat of Minas Gerais, Marcos Rogério Baeta Pereira, and the representative of the Finance Secretariat of São Paulo, José Eduardo de Paula Saran.

In his lecture, Abdenur, he will show all the actions developed by ETCO to support the fight against illegal trade in the country since its foundation, in 2003. Member of the National Council to Combat Piracy and Intellectual Property Offenses (CNCP), ETCO since 2009, he has been the manager of the Cidade Livre de Piracy Program. "Brazil has, in piracy, a serious challenge for development, a relatively new social and economic phenomenon, but one that grows exponentially, supported by criminal organizations", says Abdenur.

According to Eudaldo Almeida de Jesus, general coordinator of ENCAT, the choice of this approach was strategic for the current Brazilian scenario. "The definition of the theme occurred in the last ENCAT, since piracy and illegal trade violate the legislation, resulting in tax evasion and a consequent reduction in revenue for the States".

The 47th National Meeting of State Tax Coordinators and Administrators (ENCAT) takes place from March 18 to 21 in Salvador, BA.

About the Free Piracy City

As a member of the National Council for Combating Piracy and Intellectual Property Offenses (CNCP), an organ of the Ministry of Justice, ETCO has been managing the Cidade Livre de Piracy program since 2009. Started in 2010 and already implemented in São Paulo, Curitiba, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Osasco, Vitória and Rio de Janeiro, the project municipalizes the fight against illegal trade in products. ETCO's goal is to involve all the host cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in the program.

About ETCO

The Brazilian Institute of Ethics in Competition, ETCO, is a civil society organization of public interest (OSCIP) founded in 2003 with the objective of identifying, discussing, proposing and supporting actions, practices and projects that result in concrete improvement of the business environment in the Brazil. To this end, it acts to influence decision-makers to adopt measures aimed at reducing tax evasion, illegal trade and informality, in addition to actions to simplify the tax system and combat corruption and other misconduct. The institute seeks to maintain a strong presence in the Brazilian business and political circles in order to create mechanisms and tools that strengthen competitive ethics. There are three action strategies: to foster studies on the factors that encourage these deviations in conduct; propose and support initiatives, actions or changes in legal texts and administrative practices; and to develop and support actions to raise public awareness about the harmful social and economic effects and the dangers of these illegalities and social leniency with these deviations from ethical behavior.