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Legal certainty in taxation at authorities and courts of law: a nordic view of specialization and unbiasedness

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Legal certainty is central to taxation decisions. This article describes the current legal situation and discussions in four Nordic countries. Sweden and Finland are specialized in dealing with taxation cases in administrative courts. In Denmark and Norway, no specialization exists in taxation cases. I maintain in this article that legal certainty would benefit from explicit signals from the state about the requirement of special knowledge and unbiasedness in authority and court decisions. These signals could well take the form of specialization in the courts. The need for specialized expertise is particularly extensive in tax law. It is also crucial for the agencies’ officials and judges to be aware that a subjective sense of unbiasedness in decision making does not necessarily mean that the unbiasedness aimed for has been attained. Self-awareness of this kind would ensure that argumentation and grounds for decisions would be made credible and transparent, to the benefit of legal certainty.

Publiceringsår

2016-05-25

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

17-28

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Nordic Tax Journal

Volym

1

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

De Gruyter Open

Ämne

  • Law

Nyckelord

  • tax law
  • public law
  • skatterätt
  • offentlig rätt

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Lund Tax Academy
  • Public Law

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2246-1809