System monitorowania przewozu drogowego i kolejowego niektórych towarów (SENT) – eksplikacja de lege lata

This publication presents the current legal status in the area of using one of many IT tools for sealing the tax system, which is the monitoring system for road and rail transport of some goods, called the SENT system. The study presents the main assumptions of the provisions of the Act, including the obligations of “sensitive goods” trading participants and control powers of the organs of the National Tax Administration. The standards of the road monitoring system, its technical requirements and characteristics were thoroughly assessed and, what is more, the key role that it currently plays in the Polish tax system was indicated. The issues related to criminal liability borne by entities obliged to pay for failure to comply with the obligations resulting from the application of the Act in question, have not been disregarded.