Czy potrzebna jest prekluzja dowodowa w procedurach podatkowych?
Is Evidence Preclusion Necessary in Tax Proceedings?

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to answer the question whether it is legitimate to consider the implementation of evidence preclusion as an institution that disciplines the parties to tax proceedings to submit evidence. Evidence preclusion consists in statutory setting of a deadline until which a taxpayer may provide evidence. The evidence may no longer be submitted after the deadline. This issue is prompted by the fact that the idea of implementing such an institution emerged in the recent draft amendments to the provisions of the Tax Ordinance Act. Admittedly, the legislator did not work further on those provisions, however, given the widely known dynamics of adopting certain fiscal tax regulations in recent years, it is worth having a closer look at the idea. The fact that it is the amendment to the substantive law provisions that currently comes to the fore does not mean that the legislator may not return to the abandoned ideas in the area of the tax procedure. That is why it is at this stage that one should have a look at the institution of evidence preclusion and try not only to analyse the objectives of the draft amendments to the Tax Ordinance Act, but primarily to assess how that institution functions in other branches of Polish law and how it is evaluated in the doctrine. This will allow for a conclusion that evidence preclusion should not be applied in tax proceedings or tax audits and the legislator should definitely give up on the idea of transposing it into the tax law.

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