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Does the Implementation of DAC 5 Represent a Breach of Attorney Confidentiality?

Publication at Faculty of Law |
2019

Abstract

This contribution is devoted to an issue of the correlation between anti-money laundering measures and measures combating tax evasion. This problem is widely discussed and the regulation requiring sharing tax relevant information between tax and AML authorities begins to occur.

The example is the well-known directive DAC 5 and its transposition into the national legal orders which initiated the discussion about the nature of the confidentiality of the lawyer and the attorney-client privilege once again. This contribution therefore analyses the new obligation imposed on attorneys by the law implementing DAC 5 in the Czech Republic.

The used scientific methods are description, analysis, induction and deduction