Tax avoidance and rationality of law

Hanna Filipczyk

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"Fiscal" and "moral termites" (in the words of Vito Tanzi and John Braithwaite) are eating away taxes due, not only by tax evasion but also by a more sophisticated conduct: tax avoidance. Tax Avoidance and Rationality of Law is a theoretical journ...

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Abbreviations and Acronyms | str11
Foreword | str13
1. Purpose of the study | str15
Introduction | str15
2. State of the art | str17
3. Lawmaking and interpretation | str19
4. Methodology of the study | str22
5. Structure of the study | str24
1. Introductory remarks | str27
Tax avoidance - the concept | str27
2. In search of a definition | str29
2.1. Three criteria of tax avoidance | str29
2.2. Defeating the purpose of the law | str30
2.3. Artificiality | str33
2.4. Tax minimisation motive | str44
3. Distinctions | str52
3.1. Tax avoidance - tax evasion - tax planning | str52
3.2. Tax avoidance - sham transactions | str58
3.3. Tax avoidance - aggressive tax planning - base erosion and profit shifting | str61
4. Conclusions | str65
1. Introductory remarks | str67
Justification for countering tax avoidance | str67
2. Rule of law and anti-avoidance rules | str68
2.1. Rule of law | str68
2.2. Legitimacy (legality) | str73
2.3. Certainty | str74
2.4. Formal equality | str80
3. The puzzle of tax avoidance | str83
3.1. The illegal and the immoral | str83
3.2. "Fair share" | str85
3.3. Consequences of tax avoidance | str90
3.4. Corporate social responsibility | str92
3.5. Right to tax minimisation | str97
4. Conclusions | str103
1. Introductory remarks | str105
Rationality of law | str105
2. Law and interpretation | str108
2.1. Communicative nature of law | str108
2.2. Interpretation as attribution of meaning | str109
2.3. Interpretation as optimisation within constraints | str114
2.4. Interpretation as attribution of communication intentions | str123
3. Rationality of law as intelligibility | str131
3.1. Intelligibility and its three aspects | str131
3.2. Communicativeness | str133
3.3. Reasonability (justifiability) | str148
3.4. Coherence | str154
4. Conclusions | str165
1. Introductory remarks | str167
Tax avoidance and rationality of law | str167
2. Tax avoidance as defeating rationality of law | str168
2.1. Communicativeness | str168
2.2. Reasonability (justifiability) | str175
2.3. Coherence | str180
3. Why rationality? | str183
4. Certainty, equality and dignity | str192
5. Conclusions | str202
1. Introductory remarks | str205
Rationality of income tax law | str205
2. What to tax? Concept of income | str207
2.1. Origins | str207
2.2. From economic phenomenon to legal construct | str209
2.3. Ectopia of income taxation (Prebble) | str218
3. Where to tax? Allocation of taxing rights | str225
3.1. Paradigm | str225
3.2. Crisis | str229
3.3. Solutions | str239
4. How to tax? Formalism | str250
4.1. State of complexity | str250
4.2. Reasons | str254
5. Conclusions | str264
1. Introductory remarks | str267
Countering tax avoidance | str267
2. Principle-based legislation | str268
2.1. What PBL is (empirically) | str268
2.2. What PBL should be (theoretically) | str270
2.3. Rationality of law | str280
2.4. Objections | str283
3. General anti-avoidance rules | str291
3.1. What a GAAR is (empirically) | str291
3.2. What a GAAR should be (theoretically) | str295
3.3. Rationality of law | str304
3.4. Objections | str306
4. Programmes of co-operative compliance (CC) | str316
4.1. What CC is (empirically) | str316
4.2. What CC should be (theoretically) | str322
4.3. Rationality of law | str328
4.4. Objections | str330
5. Conclusions | str335
"Power and trust" | str337
1. Introductory remarks | str337
2. Contemporary models of tax compliance | str338
2.1. Model of economic rationality and new reflection | str338
2.2. "Responsive regulation" | str341
2.3. "Power" and "trust" - "slippery slope" framework | str344
2.4. Procedural justice | str348
3. Relevance for tax avoidance | str350
3.1. Shades of non-compliance | str350
3.2. Applicability to tax avoidance | str353
3.3. Coercive and non-coercive measures | str356
3.4. Effectiveness and fairness of tax law | str357
4. Conclusions | str360
Summary and conclusions | str361
Legal acts and proposals | str371
Literature and sources | str373

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ChapterI.Introduction

GAARs.Temainsourceoftheproblemisthatsuchclausesfortheir

efectivenessneedtotaketheshapewhichfallsfoulofthestandard

ofprecisionanddeterminacytypicallyrequiredoftaxlawprovisions

andthattheyconferexcessivediscretiononlaw-applyingadmin-

istrativeauthoritiesandcourts,leadingtoarbitrarinessintaxlaw

application.Consequently,asitisofenclaimed,theyviolatetheprin-

cipleoftheruleoflaw,andmorespeciﬁcally,theprincipleoflegal

certaintywhichresultsfromtheruleoflawideal.11

4.Methodologyofthestudy

Teperspectiveofthestudyisexplanatoryandevaluative(normative).

Teevaluativecriteriausedtothisaimare:instrumentalefectiveness

(i.e.whetherandtowhatextentitispossibletoreachtheobjectivessought

throughthecontemplatedlegalmeasures)andfairness(i.e.whetherand

towhatextentthecontemplatedlegalmeasuresrespectthevaluespro-

tectedandrealisedbylaw).

Taxavoidanceisageneralphenomenon.Infact,itisevenmoregen-

eralthanitwillbepresentedinthisbook.Itisjusttheabuseoflaw,

knownfromtheancientRomantimes,whereulaw”happenstobeutax

law”.Teof-madecontentionisthattaxavoidanceoccursonlyinthe

domesticcontext,soitissenselesstodiscusstheuobjectandpurpose”,

orasitshallbeargued,rationalityoflawinthecontextofinterna-

tionaltaxlaw.Whilethebooksubscribestotheviewthatthestructure

andcontentofcontemporaryinternationalincometaxlawisﬂawed,

forreasonswhicharetobeshown,thisfactdoesnotdepriveofsense

thediscoursereferringtorationalityofthislaw.

Teotherchallengewastocombinetheoreticalconsiderationswith

practicalobservations.Tebalanceofthisbookistiltedtowardsthe-

ory.However,abooksuchasthisonewouldbeﬂawedifcompletely

11ItisforthatreasonthatthePolishanti-avoidanceclause,includedinArticle24b

oftheTaxOrdinancein2003,waspronouncedunconstitutionalbytheConstitutional

Tribunalrulingof11May2004,K4/03,OTK-A2004/5/41.