Written Explanations of the Russian Tax Law

Abstract

The article is devoted to the theoretical description of the interpretation of the norms of the tax law and the definition of the legal status of written explanations of the tax legislation, their place in the mechanism of legal tax regulation. The purpose of the article is to confirm or refute the following hypothesis: written explanations of the tax legislation – an act of official interpretation of the norms of the tax law and mandatory for subjects of tax law enforcement. Methods: the methodological basis of the study was a set of methods of scientific knowledge. General scientific (dialectics, analysis and synthesis, abstraction and concretisation) and private scientific methods of research (formal-legal, comparative-legal, technical-legal) were used. To obtain new knowledge, the author also used the systemic and instrumental approach, empirical methods of description, comparison; methods of analogy, abstraction and the structural- functional method.