Taxpayer’s Important Interest and Public Interest in General Clauses of the Tax Ordinance Act

Abstract

General clauses cause “flexibility of legal act”, and consequently “application of legal provisions”. Without general clauses it is impossible to extend legal regulations to all events, giving effects, occuring in abandonment of tax collection, exemption from obligation of tax collection or tax deductions, advantages like deferment of the payment of that tax or remitting the whole or a part of tax arrears. Phrases like taxpayer’s important interest and public interest, beeing used in the regulations of the Tax Ordinance Act, have not regular range of content. During dealing with complaints, the tax authorities are obliged to fill these phrases with an appropariete content, in its sole discretion. This is done within the framework of so-called administrative discretion. The tax authorities have also a margin of discretion, both with regard to the interpretation of expressions and phrases being the content of general clauses and in evaluation of factual situation of the case. Simultaneusly, general clauses contained in Tax Ordinance Act, enable to choose legal consequences and resolve conflict of goods specified within. Essential directives of choice are contained in generally accepted value system. But these values do not have a direct impact at the choice of determined settlement.