Unreliable VAT payer

Vladimír Balcar

Unreliable VAT payer

Publication date: 30.06.2021

Financial Law Review, 2021, Issue 22 (2)/ 2021, pp. 18-36

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996834FLR.21.010.13978

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Unreliable VAT payer

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This paper explores legal regulation and practical application of an institute of unreliable VAT payer in the Czech Republic. The paper presents the most important conclusions made by the author within his dissertation research. The first aim is to introduce the institute of unreliable VAT payer and a mechanism of its application to foreign readers in order to enable cross-border comparisons with similar tools used in other states. The second aim of the paper is to confirm or disprove a hypothesis that legal regulation of the institute of unreliable VAT payer does not suffer from any serious deficit which would make it impossible to use this tool properly. The author mainly applies analysis, synthesis and description method. The author came to a conclusion that unreliable VAT payer is a functional tool in practice, but it suffers from several fundamental constitutional deficits.

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tax, VAT, tax evasion, Czech Republic, unreliable VAT payer, undefined legal term.

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Information: Financial Law Review, 2021, Issue 22 (2)/ 2021, pp. 18-36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/22996834FLR.21.010.13978

Article type: Original article

Authors

Vladimír Balcar

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7250-7367

Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno
Czech Republic

Published at: 30.06.2021

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported

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Vladimír Balcar (Author) - 100%

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Tax Law (K34)

Tax Evasion and Avoidance (H26)

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