Next week's recipe will destroy more than 1300 tons of pirated products
Author: Communication Advisory - ASCOM
Source: Federal Revenue of Brazil, 29/05/2009
The Federal Revenue of Brazil will destroy in several regions of the country, among
1st and 5th of June, more than 1300 tons of pirated products and
smuggled, in operation IV National Mutirão of Destruction of
Goods.
Pirated CDs and DVDs, cigarettes, used tires,
drinks, cosmetics, condoms, medicines and foods unsuitable for
consumption or use, in addition to counterfeit products (toys, batteries,
lighters, watches, pesticides) and chemicals that do not meet the standards
health surveillance or agricultural defense.
Until April of this year, the Federal Revenue of Brazil seized R $ 415 million in
goods as a result of its activity in combating piracy and
other illegal practices, avoiding the circulation, in national territory, of
products potentially harmful to health and the environment, and inhibiting the practice
crimes that generate unemployment, tax evasion and competition
disloyal to industry and regularly installed commerce.
Of the total seized products, the Federal Revenue donated 24% to organs
public, 12% to charities, 21% were auctioned, 8,5%
were returned to those interested in administrative and judicial disputes and
34,5% were driven to destruction because they are potentially
harmful to health and the environment.
In addition to carrying out repressive actions, the IRS also acts
preventive. An example of this are the Fiscal Education actions, work that
allows an approximation with society in order to disseminate information
and knowledge to the citizen about the increasing losses of these activities
the national economy.
