TALLINN - Estonian Tax and Customs Board last year lost 35 percent of tax disputes in courts, while in monetary terms, the amount of tax decisions that have been abolished is much bigger than of those that stayed in force, LETA reports, referring to Aripaev.
In court cases that ended in 2009-2011, over 79 million euros worth of tax claims were under dispute and 50 million euros worth of them were abolished. Two big losses of the Tax Board, to timber firm Sylvester and scrap metal firm Refonda, already amounted to around 32 million euros worth of tax claims.
"The tax administrator has lost a couple of very large volume disputes. If those are not taken into consideration, less claims in monetary terms than in numbers are abolished. In other words, despite losses, the tax administrator is not afraid to fight the big and strong ones either," said Tax Board legal department deputy head Kaupo Kruusvee, commenting upon the lost court cases. "The main problem is evaluation and sufficiency of evidence," he added.
Lawyer Aivar Pilv, who has a major tax disputes experience, pointed out two problems: first, tax laws are changed to frequently and second, courts lack stability in fundamental issues.
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