Disclosure in exchange for refusal of inspection

From 1 January 2019, RZD will adopt a new form of tax audit – tax audit. Granting access to their systems allows you to escape traditional tax inspections in exchange for online check from them. RZD is the seventh largest taxpayer in the country. More than two dozen large taxpayers joined tax supervision, which was in effect in 2015.

According to the Federal Tax Service, Russian Railways has become another major participant in the tax surveillance system. The details were discussed at the meeting of the head of the Federal Tax Service Mikhail Mishustin and the chairman of the board of directors of the Russian railway company JSC Oleg Belozerov. The taxes will benefit from remote access to Russian Railways' information systems, which are used for accounting and tax reporting.

Tax audit participants use data records in which the necessary tax documents are partially unloaded from the information systems. This reduces the administrative pressure, the labor costs and increases the transparency of the taxpayer.

Mikhail Mishustin

Head of the Federal Tax Service

Russian Railways is the seventh largest taxpayer in terms of tax payments. In 2017, the company transferred to the budgets of 78 constituent entities of the Russian Federation 311 billion rubles. (an increase of 8% over the previous year). For the year 2017, more than 4,000 tax returns and advances were submitted, 19,000 responses were sent to the requirements of the tax administration. 13,000 employees are involved in the accounting and reporting process, including 2.3 thousand tax professionals.

RZD will become a participant in the pilot project of the Federal Tax Service to move to the technology of a standard tax audit file. audit will launch a special program – the robot. It will automatically badyze all taxpayer data in real time and write a report for the tax inspector to badess the accuracy and completeness of the calculation of taxes and royalties, explains the Head of the Federal Tax Service

Supervision, which is carried out from 2015.

This allows companies to move from traditional controls to online control based on the Remote access to taxpayer information systems. Today, the tax audit is carried out in relation to the 26 largest taxpayers participating in the groups of Rosneft, Gazprom Neft, LUKOIL, NOVATEK, Norilsk Nickel, as well as at Aeroflot, Inter RAO , The Federal Tax Service adds that online check allows you to escape the demand for documents, increases the closing speed of the tax period, thereby guaranteeing the taxpayer a reduction in tax risks and allows to avoid additional taxes, penalties and fines in.

Tatiana Grishina