Gloss to the judgment of the Regional Administrative Court in Wrocław of 22th July 2019 (I SA/Wr 365/19)

Abstract

Gloss elaborates the judgement of Regional Administrative Court in Wrocław, in which for the first time Court explicitly opposed against the practice of instrumentally initiating fiscal penal proceedings in order to suspend the period of limitation of a tax liability. What is new in the Polish jurisdiction, the Court concluded that validity of initiating fiscal penal proceedings should remain under court’s jurisdiction. In abovementioned judgement issue of abuse of rights by the tax authority was developed, which was legal basis to annulment of the decision. A new versatile test of abuse of rights was proposed by the Court. In connection with the above, the author expressed hope that this judgement will be crucial and polish administrative courts will increasingly begin to question doubtful practices committed by the tax authorities.