Questão jurídica principal
Whether the taxpayer satisfied the conditions for an interim tax assessment due to cessation or essential, durable reduction of independent activity.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The reduction of the taxpayer's business activity was essential and durable within the meaning of the tax rules, so an interim assessment had to be granted for 2002.
Fundamentação extraída
The drop in turnover and profit was dramatic, persisted for years, and was not just a normal fluctuation of self-employment. Age, AVS retirement, loss of clients, and the structural reduction of the business showed a durable change in the bases of the activity.