Legal issue: the cоnstitutionality of the rule which does not allow, in case of equating the cadastre value of land with its market value for tax purposes, to extend the resultant market assessment of land to previous tax periods.
Ratio decidendi: in the opinion of the Court, even though the market price is determined with respect to specific land plots, which implies more precision as compared to mass cadastre assessment, the contested rule does not deprive the taxpayer of the right to determine the cadastre value of the land in the amount equal to its market value, and also of the right to challenge the dubious results of cadastre assessment or mistakes in the cadastre information. Having deemed the petition to be inadmissible, because it essentially seeks reviewing of court decisions delivered as regards the applicant, the Court pointed out, however, that the possibility of perfection of legislative regulation of State cadastre assessment based on market value of land is not to be excluded (a mild form of inviting the legislator to intervene).