Check yourself and your counterparty on the tax.ru website

The problem of counterparty integrity is quite acute in modern business. Every year the state introduces many amendments to tax and administrative legislation to increase the transparency of transactions and combat fly-by-night companies and fraudulent schemes.

If an organization has entered a certain sector of the market seriously and for a long time, values its name and reputation, it needs to be as confident as possible in its partners.

Let's take a closer look at what risks come from imprudently concluding contracts with unverified counterparties and how to protect yourself from such risks.

Why you may need to find out the counterparty by TIN before concluding an agreement

A partner applying for long-term cooperation with an enterprise may turn out to be unreliable for the following reasons:

Lack of a license or permit to conduct certain types of activities. If you work in licensed areas, this is an extremely important point. You need to find out the types of activities according to OKVED, prescribed by the potential partner in the statutory documents, and the availability of the necessary licenses and permits.
An unreliable person in a leadership position. When one person acts as the general director of a dozen companies, half of which are at the stage of bankruptcy, this is a serious reason to think about the advisability of working with such an enterprise. Checking the general director of a company also makes sense in the event of competitions for the place of a contractor. If all the companies that submitted applications to you for such a competition belong to one person, this clearly does not indicate in his favor.
The commencement of liquidation or bankruptcy proceedings. The counterparty may remain silent about such facts, but you better be aware in advance.
The timing of the company's activities. If representatives of the organization you are interested in assure you that they have been present on the market for decades, but the company was registered six months ago, it is better to find another partner.
Bulk registration address. This fact in itself does not mean that the enterprise is unreliable, but it is definitely worth keeping in mind.
Disqualification of the entire enterprise or its management. This term refers to a ban on the right to engage in certain activities.
The provided details do not correspond to reality. This moment may arise simply due to the carelessness of the legal service of the future partner. For example, the TIN does not correspond to the specified checkpoint, however, if you do not focus attention on this in the future, this situation will bring a lot of headaches to your accounting department when trying to submit an alcohol declaration, where the invoice data is reconciled.

This is not a complete list of reasons why you may need to check the counterparty by TIN.

Why test yourself

Considering that now checking a potential counterparty by TIN is very popular and does not take much time, it would be useful to check your company in this way. This way, you can see the information that your partners will receive.

By constantly monitoring this data, you will be able to quickly respond to unwanted nuances that arise. For example:

pay taxes on time;
control your accounting service for the quality and completeness of submitted reports;
be sure that you have not become a victim of a raider takeover.

The information in the Federal Tax Service's database is updated promptly and conducting such a check regularly will be more convenient and faster than ordering an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities each time.

How to check yourself and find out the counterparty by TIN on the tax.ru website - step-by-step instructions

Step one

You need to go to the Federal Tax Service website at http://egrul.nalog.ru/.

The home page will look like this.

It has two active windows for data entry. In the top one you need to enter the TIN number of the partner you are checking or his OGRN number, and in the second captcha, that is, enter the numbers that you will see below the window, in figure one these are the numbers 703799, you will have new ones every time.

step two

So, let's check the counterparty using the TIN using an example. Let's take, for example, the TIN of OAO Gazprom. His TIN is 7736050003. Enter these numbers in the first window and the captcha in the second, click find.

Step Three

In just a few seconds, the system processed our request and provided the following information.

Already at this stage, we see that two legal entities were registered in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities with the same name - Gazprom, a single organizational and legal form - Open Joint Stock Company and an identical TIN number. But one of them was registered in 2002 and is still operating, and the second operated for only 21 days. In addition, in this window you can see information about the checkpoint and OGRN of these companies, they have different ones, different legal addresses.

Theoretically, if the audit were carried out not in relation to the mentioned companies, but, say, in relation to a potentially dishonest organization, already at this stage it would be possible to establish whether this organization is active, where it is actually registered and when.

The data in the first column, namely the name of the legal entity, is active, that is, by clicking on it you can continue the analysis of the potential business partner.

Step four

When you click on the name of the first legal entity, the system automatically downloads to your computer a PDF file with an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities for this taxpayer. This is what she looks like - .

You can glean a lot of information from this file. For example, it indicates on what date and in which Federal Tax Service an entry was made in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities about the registration of this enterprise. There is also information why this company was declared inactive.

In this example, the following reason is indicated - the inclusion of a record of state registration of a legal entity upon creation was recognized as erroneous by a decision made by the registering authority.

The date of termination of existence and the name of the document issued in confirmation of this is reflected - a certificate confirming the presence of signs of an inactive legal entity. Certificate number 855 Was issued on 07/26/2006, and a certificate reflecting the presence of this entry in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, its details and the date of provision 15 000686143 12/20/2006.

Step five

Now let's analyze the existing company. This is the PDF file the system downloads when you click on the second legal entity - . There is much more information here, already 55 sheets, we will analyze the entire extract.

What information about the counterparty can you get?

By analyzing the extract received from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, you can obtain the following information about the existing legal entity:

Its full and abbreviated legal name.
Details of the certificate of inclusion of data in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.
Date and form of creation of the legal entity.
The body that registered the establishment and the body that registered the enterprise for tax purposes.
The name of the branch of the Pension Fund in which the enterprise is registered, the registration number in this fund and the date the number was assigned.
The size and date of formation of the authorized capital of the enterprise.
Information about the person who has the right to act on behalf of the company without a power of attorney. His f. And. o., position and TIN.
Information about the main type of economic activity according to OKVED and the date of its assignment.
Information about all additional types of economic activities and the dates of their assignment.
Information about all licenses the enterprise has. Their numbers, dates of issue, names of the authorities that issued these licenses, their validity period. As well as the type of licensed activity and place of validity of the licenses.
Information about all branches and representative offices of the legal entity. Their addresses, names, dates of organization and numbers of certificates of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.
Information about all changes made to the constituent documents from the moment of registration of the enterprise. The essence of these changes and their dates.

From the second example, it becomes obvious that the information that can be found on the public website tax.ru is very extensive.

In addition, it is absolutely reliable, current as of the date of the request and, importantly, free.

Many are familiar with the phrase: “Who owns the information, owns the world.” With the new service for checking yourself and your counterparty by TIN on the tax.ru website, owning the world becomes much easier.

For now, the described service is operating in test mode, but surely, given its demand, it will be transferred to the basic services of the tax office and will complement the line of no less relevant products.

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