How to find out an individual’s last name and other data using the TIN

How to find a person by TIN is a popular question for the network. But why this particular document? The answer is simple - an individual taxpayer number is assigned to everyone, and everyone who is in the status of an individual entrepreneur is also assigned an additional one. This data is maintained by the tax service of our country. But how, knowing only the TIN, can you find the rest of the data? And why is this necessary if they are supposed to be confidential?

Let's take a closer look. And let's start with what a TIN actually is.

A little about the TIN and why a search for a person is most often carried out using the TIN

Individual tax number is a number code that allows you to identify a citizen or organization as a taxpayer.

• The TIN, like passport data, is unique and is assigned only to one person. Unlike a passport, which does change periodically, a TIN is assigned once for life. If the certificate is lost, the citizen has the right to receive a duplicate, but the number will remain the same.
• If the case concerns an organization or individual entrepreneur, the tax number is retained by the legal entity or entrepreneur for the entire existence of the business entity. It is canceled and archived upon liquidation of the company or closure of the individual entrepreneur.

Here it is important for us to note that the TIN is a tax identifier. Accordingly, you can use it to find out information related to tax assessments.

Is it legal to use a TIN to verify the employment of citizens?

Due to the fact that a taxpayer ID is assigned to almost every Russian, it is this document that they try to turn to first. The certificate is issued by the Tax Inspectorate, and it will be the main source of data.

TIN is issued to each person and contains a certain set of numbers that encrypts data about the taxpayer. This digital set is individual; all the necessary information is collected from it in the databases of government departments. First of all, about sources of income and making tax deductions.

However, the confidentiality rule applies. And just like that, out of idle curiosity, you won’t be able to get this information on official resources. This applies to all government departments:

• Tax Inspectorate.
• Pension Fund.
• Social Insurance Fund.

This is where contributions from employers are received when citizens work with registration in accordance with the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. But the generated databases are available only with official requests from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSSP and other law enforcement agencies.

How to find out TIN

The TIN of individuals and legal entities has its own specifics in terms of openness of information.

• TIN of individuals refers to personal information. To obtain it, you must have the consent of the person to process personal data (Law “On the Protection of Personal Data No. 152-FZ”) or serious circumstances for the search. To find out a person’s TIN, you need to know his last name, first name, patronymic, date of birth and, for clarification, region. It is not possible to find out a person’s TIN by last name alone.
• It is easier to find out the TIN of a legal entity and individual entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial practice in Russia involves checking counterparties for reliability. This means that before signing an agreement with an individual entrepreneur or legal entity, you can request from him (or the Federal Tax Service) the necessary information about taxes, etc. This information is not classified, since each user (entrepreneur, company representative, candidate for a vacant position) has the right to check a potential partner or employer for the legality of the business and responsible financial solvency. If this is your case, you can start writing official requests to government agencies or use the contractor verification service.

The main myth about searching by TIN. Since the TIN has a clear link to a specific person (we are talking about an individual), many believe that you can find anything using the TIN. This is wrong.

Which institutions require you to provide a TIN?

Let us immediately note that the employer’s requirement for a new employee to present a tax number when applying for a vacant position is generally unlawful. In Art. 65 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation specifies a list of documents that can be provided, but there is no such document as TIN.

However, Federal Law No. 79 “On the State Civil Service” is currently in force, according to which employees carrying out professional activities in various government government agencies (at the regional and state level) are required to submit the assigned TIN to the personnel department. Let's name these institutions:

• local government administrations;
• regional justice committees;
• interregional inspections of the Federal Tax Service;
• regional main departments of the Ministry of Emergency Situations;
• regional arbitration courts;
• executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, etc.

The most popular search attempts by TIN

• Find a person by TIN;
• How to find out a person's full name by TIN?
• How to find a person's address by TIN?
• Is it possible to find a person by TIN, where he is actually located?
• Does the person have debts and fines?
• What real and movable property does a person own?
• Find a person’s TIN by last name (we already said above that this is impossible, except when the person is an individual entrepreneur).

Let us repeat once again: all these requests do not make sense, because... You won't find the information you need using your TIN.

• You will not be able to find a person by TIN, but knowing his TIN, you will be able to draw conclusions about where he received it, where he is from (since the first two digits of the TIN are the number identifier of the administrative-territorial unit (region) where it was issued certificate of assignment of TIN).
• You will not be able to find out a person’s full name by TIN. On the contrary, the TIN number itself can be found out by having the person’s last name, first name and patronymic, as well as his passport details. Those. The rule works here: you can find out a person’s TIN by his passport data and full name, but you cannot find out a person’s TIN by his last name.
• And even more so, it is impossible to address a person by TIN and the place where he is actually located.

How to find a phone number by last name

If you can find the name of the head of a company or person on the Internet using the TIN, then it will be easier to find his phone number and contact him. Today there are many databases on the Internet that are created by users themselves. Phone numbers of friends, personal numbers, dishonest companies and people are posted here. Any reference books will do.

1. To get started, you can use this reference book https://neo.spravkaru.net/russia/.
2. On its page, select the block called “By any parameters”.
3. Indicate the “Last name” item and indicate the city in which the person whose phone number you need presumably lives.

Next, you need to select the first letter of your last name and follow the prompts on the site. The portal allows you to find out mobile and landline numbers. As well as the residential address of the owner of the phone. There are many telephone directories among mobile applications that can be downloaded for a smartphone from Google Play or the App Store. The user can read more about them and their capabilities directly in the application descriptions.

What can you find out from the TIN?

It is impossible to find a person by TIN, but the questions “does the person have debts and fines?” and “what movable and immovable property does a person own?” They sound more realistic.

Here you will need to take several steps.

• By last name, first name, patronymic, date of birth and region, we find a person’s Taxpayer Identification Number in Russia.
• Based on the TIN, we see what tax accruals he has (here you will need to use the TIN to run the person through the GIS GIMP databases). As a rule, these are taxes on a car, apartment, etc. From here we can draw conclusions about a person’s financial status.
• To find out the debts of an individual, we do not need a TIN, but his last name, first name, patronymic, date of birth and region. Debts can be found out by identifying a person in the FSSP (Federal Bailiff Service) database. If debts are accumulated on a particularly large scale, they are transferred to the department of bailiffs, who can apply compulsory measures to collect debts. Another way to find out about a person’s finances is to look him up in the BKI database and find out his credit rating . If it is low, then we can conclude that the person’s financial health leaves much to be desired.

Ways to collect information about a person in Russia: by TIN and passport

The reasons for collecting information about an individual can be different: from checking candidates before hiring, searching for alimony evader, and ending with a private search for a missing person in Russia. You have a person’s TIN or passport data, and you want to collect all possible information about him. Where to go, what resources can I use?

Among the legal ways to search for a person in Russia are:

• Personal appeal to the police department. This is the most radical method and it requires serious reasons, otherwise the police simply will not accept the application. That is, in principle, you can find a person by TIN with the help of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but this requires appropriate circumstances.
• Contact the tax office. To obtain information from the Federal Tax Service, you need to submit an official request, in which you must also indicate the reasons. If they turn out to be insufficiently significant, obtaining information will be denied in accordance with Law No. 152-FZ.
• Collecting information from official online sources. The most useful government databases that contain information about individuals are the Federal Tax Service, FSSP, Ministry of Internal Affairs, GIS GMP, BKI. When collecting information, an important factor is whether the person of interest is an entrepreneur. If you go to the Federal Tax Service website to obtain information about individual entrepreneurs, you will be provided with such information without any problems. No information will be given about an individual without his personal consent, as this is illegal.

A small but important nuance. Even if you have a serious reason or permission to process personal data on the basis of which you want to obtain information about a person online, you will have to register on each of the official sites and make a separate request for specific information on each resource.

Searching for information via the Internet online

Obtaining information using online services is a current method that has recently gained popularity.

There are two official options with which you can acquire important data:

• Federal Tax Service website;
• portal of public services.

There is a third option - using the functions of third-party virtual services. In specific cases, this method can be used to obtain the necessary information, but it is illegal.

Criminals usually hide behind such sites and demand either payment or personal data for providing information for future use for fraud.

On the official website of the Tax Inspectorate

Checking the TIN on the tax portal is quite simple.

You need to follow the instructions:

1. Go to the official website of the Federal Tax Service.
2. Log in to your personal account.
3. Select the “Individuals” section.
4. Click on the line “TIN. Receive or find out the TIN.”
5. A certificate with key information on the identification number will become available. It is recommended that you read it and select “I want to know the TIN” at the bottom.
6. A special request form will open, where in order to obtain access to information you need to enter information from your identity card.
7. All that remains is to enter the “captcha” and click “Send request”.

Within 1-5 minutes the system will provide basic information on the taxpayer.

On the State Services portal

Another convenient option for obtaining information on the TIN is to submit a request through the Public Services portal.

The verification procedure is carried out similarly to the process of conducting search actions through the tax authorities’ website. A verified account is required. When registering, a citizen gains access to a large number of online services.

Sequencing:

1. Visit the Public Services portal.
2. If you are not registered, go through this procedure.
3. Select the “Service Catalog” section.
4. Go to "Taxes and Finance".
5. Click on “Find out your TIN”.

No additional actions are required from the applicant - the citizen receives the same information provided by the tax police. In this case, an expanded list of documents is provided for submitting a request.

The easiest and fastest way to collect information about a person

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• An integrated approach and multiple sources. We collect information about a person simultaneously from all major official sources and government databases. By making one request, you will receive information from the databases of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (the database of invalid passports of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the search database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), the Federal Tax Service (registers of the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs, the Unified State Register of Legal Entities), the FSSP, the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, the BKI, and Rosinforming.

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How to find out your existing tax debt

In addition to the above fees, a citizen is required to pay land and income taxes (NDFL). A well-known way to find out the amount of the fee is to visit the Federal Tax Service office at the place of registration. However, most Russians today prefer to receive the necessary information remotely. The list of available resources that allow you to find out online personal income tax and land tax debt looks like this:

• State Services portal;
• Federal Tax Service website;
• “U.Money” service;
• Sberbank website.

But there are taxes that are in the process of being collected. You can find out their volume on the FSSP website.

You can find out the following information about a person

• Whether or not a person’s passport is listed in the database of invalid passports of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
• Whether he is wanted or not;
• What is his credit rating;
• Is the car pledged?
• Availability of enforcement proceedings,
• Registration as a manager/founder of an individual entrepreneur or legal entity;
• Tax charges;
• Traffic police fines (according to VU);
• Whether or not he is known to be involved in terrorism/extremism.

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