The abuse of right in Taxes

Abuse of law in taxes - abstract The author has decided to choose this particular topic as it concerns her occupations as tax advisor. The doctrine of abuse of law is actually becoming more frequent not only in the tax cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union, by the Czech Supreme Administrative Court and lower Czech courts but also often occurs in the regular tax proceeding conducted by all levels of the Czech tax administration. The aim of the author was to analyse the doctrine and try to develop a practical instrument for decision making of common Czech taxpayers. The thesis is decided in two parts and conclusion. In the first part, the doctrine of abuse of law and related concepts as tax avoidance, tax evasion, substance-over-form rule, sham transactions and tax optimization in the Czech law theory and legislation is analysed, in second chapter the author has looked more closely into cases decided by Czech courts. In the third chapter are analysed the most important cases concerning abuse of law decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union. In second part of the thesis are commented some practical measures to avoid harmful tax planning arrangements used as in the Czech republic as abroad, including the recently adopted BEPS Action Plan of OECD which refers to tax planning..