In the end of October, the practice of Belgorod Department of the Federal Tax Service drew attention to regional mass-media and lawyers of country. Since last year taxmen filed a lawsuit against people, who buy expensive goods, and won cases about charging income tax. Experts differed in opinions about legalism of it and level of focused attention of government to citizens` costs.
The opinion of the lawyer Yury Mirzoev on the website ‘zakon.ru’ is in the certain stylistics, which is far from the inherent restraint and correctness of formulations: The tax authorities of the Belgorod region came up with a wondrous scheme of taking money from taxpayers - individuals - in favor of the budget, and courts of general Jurisdictions have supported them. " Mirzoev is not the only specialist, concerned with such approach. In October 2014 in the profile magazine "The Main Book" an article by A.V. Zatsepin "Live beyond your funds? IFTS is coming to you! ". The author criticizes the experience of Belgorod tax specialists and warns against its spread to other regions of the country.
Belgorod Department of the Federal Tax Service doesn`t have information about numbers of tax cases about charging. But, current cases provoked a discussion in professional society. Many experts, as Yury Mirzoev, didn`t mince any words. So, the courts of general jurisdiction don`t have to take part in tax disputes according with opinions of lawyers. Because, they don`t understand all details of cooperation between specialists of Federal Tax Service and citizens unlike Arbitration court.
"It's funny, of course. We are all so honest and fighters for justice, but the state does not have the right to touch the black salaries with its dirty hands, exacting a thirteen percent tax", - said Moscow lawyer Svyatoslav Pats. "I'm closer-innocent, if not proven otherwise," retorts Soslan Kairov of the law firm Mitra. - Unfairness must be established "at the exit" of the court, and not "at the entrance." Accordingly, in the same logic, any public-legal relations should be built ... It is unlikely that the main Russian problems are due to the presence of illegal salary. The head of the snake does not need to be cut from the tail, it will bite you more than once. " "Even if the tax authority proves dishonesty of the taxpayer, this does not entitle the tax authority to add taxes outside the procedures established by the Tax Code of Russia," Mirzoev said. "Moreover, the standard of proof in tax cases, like in criminal cases, must be much higher than in civil cases, therefore, some indirect facts pointing to dishonesty are clearly not enough."
Materials were taken from web-site "Lenta.ru"
