A legal remedy is a legal institution established by the Constitution or by law, through which a procedure may be initiated to review the conformity of an individual (administrative) act with a legal norm laid down in substantive rules or essential procedural rules, and which serves the function of protecting both the rights of the parties and the public interest. The lodging of an appeal as a constitutional guarantee constitutes a constitutional guarantee for taxpayers. In this context, the Master's thesis illustrates the role of the appellate authority in tax administrative proceedings by means of theoretical assumptions, the applicable rules and an analysis of second-instance decisions in appeal proceedings.
The issues addressed in the master's thesis focus on the adequacy of the existing legal regulation of Article 251 of the Act on General Administrative Procedure (ZUP) with regard to the (non-)merits of the second-instance decision of the appellate authority in appeal proceedings, the reasons for which the appellate authority in tax proceedings refers cases back to the first-instance authority for reconsideration, and the comparability of the resolution of appeals in tax proceedings in the Republic of Austria and the Republic of Slovenia.
The research used normative, descriptive, dogmatic, comparative-legal, statistical analysis, inductive and deductive methods, unstructured interview method and axiological-deontological method.
The methods used in my master's thesis led me to the conclusion that the legal regulation of Article 251 of the ZUP regarding the role of the second-instance body in the appeal procedure is appropriate and that a change would not have the effect of bringing the appeal procedure to a quicker conclusion. As regards the comparative analysis of the Slovenian and Austrian tax appeal procedure, it was found that the legal regulation and the norms for the resolution of appeals in tax proceedings are only partially comparable between the two countries, because as of 2014 Austria abolished the instance of deciding on appeals in tax proceedings by introducing the Federal Finance Court, which would not be a necessary improvement in Slovenia.
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