Object's details: Basic trends in European Court of Human Rights case-law on tax matters

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Title:
Basic trends in European Court of Human Rights case-law on tax matters
Creator:
Jasudowicz, Tadeusz
Description:
The case-law of the European Court of Human Rights in tax matters has developed in three dimensions. Firstly, it involved Article 1 of the Protocol No. 1 to the Convention with reference to “the payment of taxes”, viewed, notwithstanding the State’s wide margin of appreciation, in the light of the principle of the peaceful enjoyment of one’s possessions. Secondly, from the perspective of Article 6 paragraph 1 of the Convention, tax disputes can be covered by the guarantees of a fair trial where the proceedings and sanctions, for example, concerning tax surcharges, are qualified in their autonomous Convention meaning as a “criminal charge” against the taxpayer. Moreover, despite its traditional case-law, in the last years the Court has seemed to allow the possibility of qualifying tax disputes as concerning “civilrights and obligations” Thirdly, on the basis of Article 4 of Protocol No. 7 to the Convention, the Court has found violations of the prohibition “to be tried or punished again in criminal proceedings” in the context of dual, i.e. tax (administrative) and penal, proceedings. The author critically assesses the Court judgment in the case of A. and B. v. Norway, in which the Court did not find a violation of Article 4 of Protocol No. 7. In the Norwegian case, the distinct administrative and penal proceedings were in fact merged, since the state introduced a system of integrated legal answers to taxpayers’ behavior. According to Judge Pinto de Albuquerque, expressing a dissenting opinion, the Court in this judgment wrongly changed its stance from pro persona to pro auctoritate, possibly forgetting that it is a court of humanrights, and not a pleader of raison d’Etat. Although the Court declared that it considers the Convention “as a whole”, and seeks to ensure the consistency of the Convention system and harmony of its provisions, it might have lost sight of ties existing between them. Taxpayers are also individual humansand have a title to human rights, thus tax disputes are those of a human rights nature. Understandably, the ECHR must persist as a Court of Human Rights.
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free access
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Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Tadeusz Jasudowicz;
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Date:
2020.10.15
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
Artykuł naukow;
Artykuł naukowy
Language:
Polish;
pol
Source:
Studia Prawa Publicznego; No. 3 (31) (2020); 9-32;
Studia Prawa Publicznego; Nr 3 (31) (2020); 9-32;
2720-2445;
2300-3936
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/spp/article/view/25964/23713
Subject:
taxes;
criminal charge;
dual proceedings;
human rights;
Strasbourg;
case-law
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/spp/article/view/25964
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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