Bibliographic citations
Luján, C., (2021). El deber del abogado frente al sistema tributario en la evaluación de interpretaciones agresivas [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/20748
Luján, C., El deber del abogado frente al sistema tributario en la evaluación de interpretaciones agresivas []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/20748
@misc{renati/535060,
title = "El deber del abogado frente al sistema tributario en la evaluación de interpretaciones agresivas",
author = "Luján Espinoza, Carlos Alexis",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2021"
}
Recent international scandals such as the Panama Papers and investigations against huge transnational companies such as Apple, Google or Starbucks unveiled the use of tax strategies that some scholars have argued are “legal, but unfair“. In such context, the analysis of lawyers’ behavior has called special attention in the academic field because, given the uncertainty existing in tax law, taxpayers seek their advice to define how to apply tax rules in specific cases. The purpose of this study is to analyze whether lawyers who recommend or endorse the use of legal interpretations supported by little or no legal grounds fail to comply with lawyers’ ethics and professional responsibility rules in force in Peru. For such objective, we consider that said kind of legal interpretations could go unnoticed and unchallenged by the Tax Authority because it is not possible that all tax returns submitted by taxpayers be audited. To interpret Peruvian Lawyer's Code of Ethics, we mainly resort to a purposive approach, an analysis of various rules of the Peruvian legal system and a preliminary study of foreign literature in relation to the specific problem. The conclusion of this study is that lawyers who advise on the compliance of tax obligations should be considered gatekeepers of the tax system when applying lawyers’ ethics and professional responsibility rules. Additionally, taking said role into account, we conclude that lawyers should not recommend or endorse the use of aggressive interpretations of tax rules, but they should discourage it in application of their duties of obedience to the law, truthfulness and good faith.
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