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Many people are interested in the question of how to find out additional information about a stranger. And sometimes it's not just curiosity. For example, you conclude some important agreement with a person, but you know absolutely nothing about him. The most important transactions, as a rule, involve real estate, as well as expensive movable property (for example, a car). Also, checking a person’s data is simply necessary when hiring a future candidate for a job. It is extremely important for an employer to know what is hidden behind a person’s personality, and not just believe the resume written by him.
If you use the Internet wisely, you can find a lot of information about almost any person. In this article we will figure out how and where this can be done.
Warning : do not trust sites that promise to provide information about a person, but in return you will need to enter your mobile phone number, some other data or pay money. This is designed to deceive you. Simply put, these are scammers. A lot of information can be found completely free online.
On the website of the State Administration for Migration Issues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, you can completely legally check the validity of your passport (https://services.fms.gov.ru/info-service.htm?sid=2000).
To do this, you need to enter the series (the first 4 digits) and the passport number (6 digits after the passport series) into certain fields.
The first 4 digits (passport series) indicate the region of issue and the year of the passport form. For example, series 50 04 means that 50 is the Novosibirsk region according to OKATO (All-Russian Classifier of Objects of Administrative-Territorial Division), 04 is a passport form of the 2004 model.
If you did everything correctly, the following message will appear:
On the website of the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) you can find out the citizen’s INN (https://service.nalog.ru/inn-my.do).
To do this you need to know:
- Last name First name Patronymic,
- date of birth,
- series and number of the passport, as well as the date of issue of the passport.
If all the data is entered correctly, your TIN number will be displayed:
If a person does not have a TIN (which is rare), the following message will appear:
The TIN consists of 12 digits. The first 2 digits are the code of the subject of the Russian Federation according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the next 2 are the tax inspection number, the next 6 are the taxpayer’s tax record number, the last 2 are check digits to check the correctness of the entry.
What is TIN
TIN is a taxpayer identification number. This number is individual for each person; it is given once upon first registration in the tax system of the Russian Federation. The TIN is used to identify an individual when making payments to the budget in order to eliminate confusion between namesakes and even full namesakes. The TIN does not contain any secret meaning, it is just a sequence of numbers that is assigned to a person for life. The TIN does not encrypt your passport number, residential address, or even gender.
If a person changes their last name or first name, this will not affect their taxpayer identification number.
Important to keep in mind
When creating a request on one of the above-mentioned electronic services, you should remember some details of filling out the forms:
- if there is no middle name, you cannot leave a blank line, you must put a dash;
- When specifying your date of birth, you can use the built-in calendar;
- the column with data on place of birth is optional;
- the choice of document form assumes the “default” value if you plan to use a passport;
- If the visibility of the digital code is poor, it can be changed.
All details should be double-checked before submitting your request. If after clicking the “send” button the information does not appear, it means the TIN was not found.
This can be explained by both errors made when filling out the form, changed taxpayer data (for example, changing a surname upon marriage), and the citizen’s lack of code.
To obtain it, you can contact the tax authority with identification documents.
How to find out TIN and much more
To find out the TIN, you will need passport data - you can find out or check not only your TIN, but also the number of any other person. To do this, in addition to passport information, you must have the written consent of the person being verified to process personal data. The CheckPerson service will send a complete report about an individual by email within 5 minutes, which will include official data from government databases:
- Validity of the passport.
- TIN of an individual.
- Tax charges.
- Credit rating.
- Pledges of movable property.
Why information about a person’s registration may be useful.
Finding out someone's registration may be necessary in a variety of everyday situations. Let's consider the main ones:
- Search for a missing debtor, for example, based on alimony, loan agreements;
- Search for heirs;
- Search for individuals who left the scene of an accident, etc.
There are situations when information about a person’s registration is urgently needed. To receive them, you can contact the nearest police department (call the hotline) and explain your problem. In some cases, a police squad will go to the scene and carry out all the necessary actions, or your request will be recorded for further work.
In this case, both citizens and officials may need information. In the latter case, an official request is made, which is signed by the head of the authority or other authorized employee. As a rule, the request is considered within 30 days from the date of its registration. However, some departments, due to the urgency of obtaining information about the registration address, may set shorter deadlines. For example, the prosecutor's office, the court. The second option for obtaining a registration address using an individual’s personal identification number or passport data is interdepartmental interaction, which can be expressed in providing access to a common database.
If a citizen applies, he must have compelling reasons for obtaining the data, since information about registration refers to personal data protected by law. Moreover, violators are charged with both administrative and criminal punishment, as well as disciplinary and civil liability. That is why information about the place of residence of individuals is stored in special databases and is not available to the public. If the bath databases are hacked, the violator will face criminal punishment.
Why do you need to know your TIN
You will need to know your Taxpayer Identification Number in all cases where tax interactions may arise. Here are some possible situations when you need a tax number:
- when applying for a job , including when concluding an agreement for one-time services;
- when preparing tax returns or paying taxes for an individual;
- when applying for a bank card;
- when receiving government support;
- when registering transactions with real estate or vehicles;
- when registering an individual as an individual entrepreneur.
We check the department that issued the passport
Passport counterfeiting services on the Internet are a dime a dozen. Many people use them to register on a dating site or on a crypto-exchange, to annoy their exes, to try to get a loan for a passport scan, or to request an advance payment for a product or service.
But often such services do not take into account the details. For example, they “draw” scans of documents issued by non-existent departments.
On the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs you can find out whether such a department exists. Go in, do a search on the page, and make sure that the division exists. Or doesn't exist. The first two digits in the department code must match the numbers in the department website address:
How to find a person by TIN in Russia
If only the TIN is known from the data, then you can roughly determine the area where information about the person will be searched. From the numbers of the number you can find out the location of the tax office where the person was assigned a TIN. The fact is that each region of the Russian Federation has its own serial number: for example, Bashkiria - 02, Vladimir region - 33. The region code is indicated in the first two digits of the taxpayer identification number. The next two digits correspond to the serial number of the municipality in this territory. Using them you can find out the city or district in which the TIN was obtained. This is where the information about the place of residence of the person who owns the number ends; the TIN does not contain other official information.
It is important not to lose sight of the fact that when a person’s place of residence changes, the taxpayer number does not change, so the TIN data will not allow one to determine where the person lives now.
How to find a person by TIN if there is no other information? There is no way to do this legally.
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.
What can a search for personal data by TIN lead to?
What to do if the available information about a person according to the TIN is not enough? How to find a person’s address by TIN and is it even possible to find a person by TIN? How can I find out his last name, passport details or the amount of tax debt? There are offers of services of this kind on the Internet. Such sites always require a phone in return, since their goal is precisely to collect a database, and not to satisfy the curiosity of users. In return, they either don’t send anything or send fake data.
The fact is that the last name, first name, patronymic, date of birth and place of residence of an individual are personal data and their distribution is prohibited by Law No. 152-FZ of July 27, 2006. For violation of the requirements for the use and provision of personal data, there is administrative and criminal liability, provided for in Articles 13.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation and 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. An individual may receive a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles, correctional labor or imprisonment for 2 years.
Roskomnadzor monitors Internet resources that illegally offer information about individuals and systematically suppresses their activities through the courts. In December 2021 alone, 26 materials on the protection of personal data were sent for consideration.
Overtly criminal methods such as bribing government employees or purchasing information databases contain a whole bunch of violations of the law. The very fact of lack of consent to the processing of personal data means a violation of Law No. 152-FZ. In addition, giving a bribe to an official falls under Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and can lead to imprisonment for up to 2 years.
Valid or not
To check whether a document is valid, there is an official, open and free service of the Main Directorate of the Migration Service of the Russian Federation. We go in, enter the series (4 digits), the number (the remaining 6 digits) and the captcha, and check.
For example, let’s take a photo of Gerard Depardieu’s passport, which has gone around the entire Internet:
Service response: everything is OK, the passport is not listed as invalid:
The opposite answer would mean that the passport is invalid: for example, it was stolen, and the owner reported it to protect himself.
If the service returns the result “The Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation is not currently listed in the electronic records,” this does not mean at all that the passport is fake. It’s just that the data may not have yet been transferred from the territorial authority to the centralized database.
You can also download and manually dig into the database of invalid passports. It is updated daily and is also available on the FMS website (be careful, more than 400 MB in the archive!).
How to identify a person by TIN: let’s summarize
In fact, the TIN is tied to the citizen in order to avoid confusion when calculating taxes; this number does not play a role in other areas of life. Banks and employers request it mainly to clarify tax information. Based on the TIN numbers, you can understand which tax office assigned the TIN to the individual. Further moves of a person and a change of surname will not change his TIN. You can find out your TIN or that of any other person if you have his or her consent to the processing of personal data. The CheckPerson service will provide complete official information within a few minutes.
The TIN itself is not secret information, but attempts to identify a person using the TIN, find out his address or passport details can lead to the dock.
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;
- service “Yandex. Money";
- Sberbank website.
But there are taxes that are in the process of being collected. You can find out their volume on the FSSP website.
And sometimes you don’t even need a passport
You can also search by name in open databases:
- on cases and judicial acts;
- based on the texts of court decisions;
- according to decisions of arbitration courts;
- in the file of arbitration cases (cases that are currently in proceedings);
- on the website of the bailiff service in the register of enforcement proceedings (by full name and region);
- based on a database of people suspected of committing crimes.
It would also be a good idea to look into the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ “Wanted” database and check the passport photo with the list of especially dangerous criminals. By the way, you can get 1 million rubles for helping to find especially dangerous criminals.
Legal address for individual entrepreneurs: interpretation of the concept
Established practice indicates that the legal address means the address of the head office of the Individual Entrepreneur. Otherwise, it is also called the actual address.
Not all individual entrepreneurs acquire a legal entity. address. Basically, it is available to those individual entrepreneurs who rent office space and employ a staff of employees. In addition, a legal address is often necessary for individual entrepreneurs whose partners are large organizations that conduct active business correspondence and impose special requirements on their counterparties.
Attention! Unlike Limited Liability Companies, an Individual Entrepreneur is not required to have an office, and can use the address at the place of residence or not indicate any address at all in the details of any documents.
Can an individual entrepreneur use a temporary registration for registration?
Beginning entrepreneurs in some cases wonder whether it is possible to register as an individual entrepreneur by providing a temporary registration certificate to the tax authority. Yes, this is possible, but it is worth remembering that temporary registration entails a number of certain inconveniences and it must be renewed periodically. Registration of an individual entrepreneur with a temporary registration is possible if a certificate of temporary registration for a period of at least 6 months, certified by a notary, is attached to the standard package of documents for state registration of an individual entrepreneur. In addition, the passport of the future individual entrepreneur should not contain a stamp indicating registration at the place of permanent residence.
Attention! After the expiration of the temporary registration period, the individual entrepreneur will be automatically removed from tax registration, so the temporary registration must be renewed in a timely manner and the local tax office must be notified about this.
For your information! Wherever an individual entrepreneur is registered, he can conduct commercial activities anywhere in Russia. However, he is obliged to submit reports to the tax office that registered him. Now this is not particularly difficult: you can send documents either through Russian post or via the Internet. All of the above equally applies to those who are registered as individual entrepreneurs under temporary registration.
Documents for entering information about the new place of registration of individual entrepreneurs into the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs
The list of documents for this procedure is not very large. At the territorial tax service you must have with you:
- passport and its copy;
- TIN and copy;
- certificate of state registration;
- the actual statement.
After the tax specialist accepts the above documents, he will issue a receipt for their receipt. After five days, the individual entrepreneur will receive an extract from the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs, which will contain information about his new place of residence.
