You can find out your tax debt on the website of the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) by the last name in which your personal account is registered. The resource is equipped with rich functionality that allows you to track all payment transactions. Understanding this is not as difficult as it seems, but there are times when there are more taxes than you thought. To find out about this in time and not get completely confused about taxes, contact a lawyer.
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Features of sending tax notices
For example, it is known that 67.1 million of them were sent in 2021. Of these, 44.6 million were sent on paper by registered mail, and 22.5 million were sent electronically through taxpayers’ personal accounts.
Tax notices are addressed to owners of taxable property: vehicles, land plots, capital construction projects for the period of ownership over the past year.
And every year, compared to the previous tax period, changes occur in the calculation of taxes for individuals, laid down in tax and other legislation.
For example, for transport tax, this is a calculation using increasing coefficients established by the List of passenger cars with an average cost of 3 million rubles. And the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade updates it annually.
For land tax, in a number of regions of Russia, new results of the state cadastral valuation of land, which have come into force, are annually applied.
For personal property tax, the tax base is the cadastral value of real estate. But when calculating this tax in the region, a reduction factor may apply. They are used so that when switching to a tax based on the cadastre, it does not rise very sharply at one time.
In addition, there may be changes in tax rates and benefits - in accordance with the laws of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for transport tax, as well as regulatory legal acts of municipalities (laws of federal cities) for land tax and property tax.
How an employer avoids responsibility
If you work without an employment contract, your employer will definitely not contribute money to the Pension Fund for you. But it also happens: you have a contract and an entry in your work book, but still no contributions to the Pension Fund.
For example, your employer has given you a long vacation “at his own expense”, but gives you your salary “in gray”, maybe even transferring money to a card. For you, this is no different from a “white” salary.
If an inspection comes, the boss will ask you to write a retrospective application: for vacation or dismissal. If you are on vacation at your own expense, you do not accumulate either a pension or work experience. If you write such a statement, you are automatically assisting the scammer, and to your own detriment.
If you work for an individual entrepreneur and he does not have an accountant, he may not even know that he must contribute money to the Pension Fund. He may think that it is enough to pay taxes and pension contributions for himself.
You need to find out whether your employer contributes money to the Pension Fund as soon as possible. According to the Labor Code (Article 392), you can go to court within three months from the day you learned or should have learned about a violation of your rights. If everything is discovered too late, you will not be able to claim compensation through the courts. Well, you'll lose money.
What to do if the tax notice contains incorrect information
If, in the taxpayer’s opinion, the tax notice contains outdated or incorrect information about the property or its owner (including the period of ownership of the property, tax base, address), to check and update it, you must contact the tax authorities in any convenient way:
- for users of the taxpayer’s Personal Account - through it;
- for other persons - by personally contacting any tax office, or by sending a postal message, or through the Internet service of the Federal Tax Service website “Contact the Federal Tax Service of Russia.”
Additional information can be obtained by calling the tax office or the contact center of the Federal Tax Service of Russia: 8 800 222-22-22.
What you can find out on the Federal Tax Service website
In order for a Russian citizen to find out his tax debt using his TIN or last name, he needs to have a personal account on the Federal Tax Service website, where all transactions will be reflected. This way, a person will always see what taxes were paid and when, what payments were successfully made, etc.
All work on the Federal Tax Service resource will be possible after several registrations: first on the website, then for registration and creation of a personal account. The operations are simple, but after this you can get a lot of useful information, including finding out the debt by TIN and last name.
Procedure (step by step):
- Log in to the Federal Tax Service website.
- Register on it.
- Open the “Personal Account” tab (if it doesn’t exist, then register).
- Enter your INN and password.
- Get information about your debt.
Users note the simplicity and accessibility of the data acquisition scheme, good navigation and clear presentation of information. Even if there is a person who is far from the Internet, it will not be difficult for him to find the necessary items about debt and answers to other questions by entering his last name in the column.
How tax authorities obtain information about payers: what you need to know
Information about taxable property and its owner, including characteristics of the property, tax base, legal owner, period of ownership, is submitted to the tax authorities by the following authorities:
- registration and migration registration of individuals at their place of residence (place of stay);
- Civil registry offices;
- Rosreestr (state cadastral registration and registration of rights to real estate);
- registration of vehicles (traffic police, etc.);
- guardianship and trusteeship authorities;
- bodies and institutions authorized to perform notarial acts;
- notaries;
- bodies that issue and replace identity documents of citizens of the Russian Federation on the territory of Russia.
It is important that the above-mentioned registration authorities bear responsibility for the accuracy, completeness and relevance of the specified information used for property taxation. They submit information to the tax office based on information available in their information resources (registers, cadastres, registers, etc.).
Option number 2: find out from the Pension Fund
Once a year, the Pension Fund sends out letters indicating pension contributions for the previous year.
If you do not receive a statement by mail, contact your Pension Fund office and obtain a statement there. Take your passport and SNILS with you to the department. This is a pension certificate, a green laminated card.
Important: notifications from the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation are received only at the place of your permanent registration! If you live and work in another city, you may not receive these notifications. In this case, try the third option.
Checking tax notice
As a general rule, the tax authority needs to conduct an audit to confirm the presence or absence of legally established grounds for:
- recalculation of taxes and changes in tax notices (includes sending a request to the regulatory authorities, checking information about the availability of tax benefits, determining the start date of application of the current tax base, etc.);
- processing the information received and making the necessary changes to information resources (databases, budget payment cards, etc.).
As a result, if there are grounds for recalculating the tax(s) and generating a new tax notice, the tax office no later than 30 days (in exceptional cases, this period can be extended by no more than 30 days):
- Resets the previously accrued amount of tax and penalties.
- Will generate a new tax notice indicating a new tax payment deadline.
- Will send the individual a response to the appeal (will post it in the taxpayer’s personal account).
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Option #1: Ask your employer
Large companies issue employees a statement every month. It contains all the data: salary, bonuses, vacation pay, travel allowance, as well as personal income tax and contributions to the Pension Fund.
If you do not receive such a statement, you can ask the accounting department for a certificate of transfers to the Pension Fund. But, if the employer deliberately evades payments, because of your curiosity, he will try to complicate your life. For example, he will fire you retroactively or ask you to write a statement “of your own free will.” It will be more difficult to prove your case in court. Therefore, it is better to check the status of your pension account with the state.
Important: if you suspect that your employer is deceiving you, do not bother and use the second or third option. The third one will be faster.
Option number 3: find out via the Internet
You can check your pension account on the government services portal (https://gosuslugi.ru). If you have never received government services via the Internet before, you first need to register: go to the website, enter your name, email and phone number. And then - passport details and SNILS number. After verification, you will receive a notification on your phone or email.
You will also need to go to the post office or Rostelecom office to have your identity checked. This formality takes five minutes, but then opens access to all government services and protects against scammers. Take time for this - this will be required not only for extracting from the Pension Fund. It's easier than it seems.
When you register, go to the website, select “Check Retirement Account” and immediately see the statement. If your employer is honest and good, then you will see the name of your employer in the statement:
If the employer does not appear here, he probably does not charge anything. This is illegal and unfair to you.
Important: If your employer deceives you, going to court right away is not the best solution. First, try to part ways with your employer legally and without conflict. If that doesn't work, you can turn on the forensic machine.
Pay taxes offline
To pay tax without access to the Internet, you must receive a notification receipt with a fifteen-digit identification number. Until the time for payment has expired, it can be collected from the tax office at the place of registration of the taxable object. After this, you have several options.
- Payment at bank branches: this can be Sberbank, Tinkoff, VTB, Promsvyazbank and others. Instead of a receipt, you can submit a completed declaration to the cashier, and pay using a card or cash.
- Payment through the Federal payment system "City". It does not operate in all cities. System points can be found, for example, in Forbank branches in the Altai Territory, Chelyabinsk Region and other regions.
- Depositing funds into bank terminals. A barcode printed on the receipt is used, so the procedure can only be carried out at ATMs that have special reading devices.
- Payment through self-service devices at tax offices. These are the same terminals as those that accept money to top up a mobile phone account.
These methods are the most accurate - you receive a payment receipt immediately at the checkout, you do not need to wait until the payment status is confirmed (and in the case of online methods, the waiting period reaches 10 days). You will know for sure that the payment has gone through.
Trust but control
Checking your retirement account is good financial hygiene. If you have a great relationship with your employer and you trust him, great. But it’s still better to check at least once every three months to see if everything is fine with your pension contributions. At a minimum, in case an error crept into the accounting calculations.
Show your citizenship. Employers who do not pay taxes and contributions harm you, first of all, and secondly, the whole country. Punish the crooks. Bring justice without looking back or regret.”
Sasha advises checking at least once every three months to see if everything is fine with pension contributions. At least in case there was an error in the accounting calculations. Checking your retirement account is good financial hygiene.
