How to find out tax arrears

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Failure to pay taxes is fraught with problems. And yet, no one wants to go to the tax office and sit in line to find out if they are in arrears or not. You can get the necessary information and immediately pay off the debt on the Internet. Usually it is enough to know the TIN for this.

Why check tax arrears

Typically, ordinary people pay:

1. Personal income tax (themselves, when it comes to renting out an apartment, tutoring at home, winning the lottery or an expensive gift).
2. Property tax (apartment, house, garage, outbuildings, and so on).
3. Land tax.
4. Transport tax (levied on owners of cars, motorcycles, scooters, yachts, snowmobiles, motor boats and other registered vehicles).

It's easy to get confused in all this. But if you did not receive a notification due to the fault of the mail or received it, but everyone postponed payment, and then completely forgot about the Federal Tax Service, these are your problems. The taxpayer's task is to independently learn about taxes and pay them on time.

Failure to do this is fraught with consequences. Here's what you face:

1. Collection of arrears through the court. If the debt is more than 3,000 rubles, the tax authorities have the right to go to court. The punishment can be quite severe. In the best case, you will get off with a fine of 20 to 40% of the unpaid amount. But criminal liability is also provided. For tax evasion, you can lose up to 500,000 rubles or imprisonment for up to three years.
2. Tax collection at the expense of property. If taxes, penalties, fines remain unpaid after the court's decision, the tax office can re-apply to the court and pay off the debt at the expense of the debtor's property, including money lying in the bank.
3. Impossibility to travel abroad. If your debt exceeds 10,000 rubles, it is likely that you will not be released outside of Russia. By the way, the same will happen if you do not pay traffic fines or utility bills.

How to find out about tax debt on the Internet

To find out if you have a tax debt, use one of these web services.

1. Official website of the Federal Tax Service

You can check the information about the debt through the taxpayer's personal account. One thing: to register, you must personally submit an application at any branch of the Federal Tax Service. There you will be given a password with which you can enter the system.

Despite the fact that once you have to walk to the tax office with your own feet, your efforts will pay off in the long term: on the site you can not only check debts, but also learn about overpayments, fill out declarations and contact the tax authorities without a personal visit. You can also find out your TIN according to your passport data.

If you are already registered on the portal of public services or you have an electronic signature key, then you can enter your personal account and use the services of the site without visiting the tax office.

Check debt on the website of the Federal Tax Service →

2. Portal of public services

Fill out an electronic application in the "Tax debt" section, and the system will give you detailed information on the calculations of taxes, fees, penalties, fines and interest. To do this, you need to enter the TIN number. You can also check the status of the debt by the receipt number, if you have a notice.

And most importantly, here you can find out your TIN, if you don't have a certificate at hand. The system automatically fills in your data into the form: name, date of birth, series and passport number, and then shows the presence (or absence) of tax arrears.

Check debt through the portal of public services →

3. Database of the Federal Bailiff Service

In the databank of enforcement proceedings, you can check whether you have a debt with the Federal Bailiff Service. To do this, just enter the last name, first name, patronymic and date of birth.

Check the debt on the website of the Federal Bailiff Service →

4. "Yandex. Money"

The service allows you to check the debt by TIN or find out about the charges of the current year by the document index. Here you can also pay taxes without a commission using a Visa or MasterCard or Yandex. Money.

Check debt through Yandex. Money →

5. Bank sites

Often, through the personal account of the bank, you can find out the tax debt, and immediately pay it off. Such an opportunity is available in Sberbank, VTB, Tinkoff Bank, B&N Bank.