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ChapterII
TAXAVOIDANCETHECONCEPT
uItseemsthatweknowtaxavoidancewhenweseeit,
butwehavetoseeittoknowit”(Z.Prebble,J.Prebble)1
1.Introductoryremarks
Inthischapterthepreliminarydefinitionoftaxavoidanceisdeveloped.
Taxavoidanceisdefinedasacourseofactioninlinewiththeuletter”
butcontrarytotheuspirit”ofthetaxlaw,i.e.rationalityoflaw,ratiolegis
inthebroadsense.Other,andcompeting,criteriafordefiningtaxavoid-
ance(counterpropositionstothepostulatedfeature)arealsodiscussed,
inordertodiscoverandelucidaterelationsthatholdbetweenthem,and
distinctionsbetweentaxavoidanceandsimilarphenomenaaredrawn.
Tepostulateddefinitionoftaxavoidanceitscrucialelement:uration-
alityoflaw”willbeexplainedfurtherinchaptersIVandV
.
Admittedly,itisperenniallycontroversialifthereisaunique,one
anduniversal,conceptoftaxavoidance.2Itisalmostaplatitudenow
1Z.M.Prebble,J.Prebble,TeMoralityofTaxAvoidance,CreightonLawReview
2010,Vol.43,No.3,pp.693-745,atp.709.
2TisproblemisvigorouslydebatedalreadyintheEUcontext.See,exmultis,R.dela
Feria,S.Vogenauer,(eds.),ProhibitionofAbuse…;W
.Schön,AbuseofRightsandEuro-
peanTaxLaw,[in:]J.AveryJones,P
.Harris,D.Oliver(eds.),ComparativePerspectives
onRevenueLaw,CambridgeUniversityPress,Cambridge2008,pp.75-99;F
.Vanistend-
ael,HalifaxandCadburySchweppes:OneSingleEuropeanTeoryofAbuseinTaxLaw?,
ECTaxReview2006,Vol.15,Issue4,pp.192-195;A.Zalasiński,SomeBasicAspectsofthe