Abstract

The article 305 of the Spanish Criminal Code, in its fourth section, sets up a particular and rather controversial term that allows anyone who has committed tax crimes, to be exempt from de prescribed penalty if they plead guilty and regularize their debt with tax authorities, by recognizing and covering the unpaid tax debt. This has to be done before the Public Administration, a Public Prosecutor or a Judge could notify them the beginning of the administrative or the judicial proceedings that are aimed to investigate the tax fraud. The purpose of this project is to analyse from a dogmatic perspective the legal nature and systematic positioning of tax regularization. These are two main issues that are extensively discussed by many authors who brought multiple theories and opinions which condition significantly the exegesis of the article 305.4 of the Criminal Code and its effects.