You can find a company by TIN by using a special service, access to which is provided free of charge by the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation. As a result, the user receives all the necessary data to identify a specific company in the form of an electronic statement.
It is now quite easy to find a company with information about an individual tax number, since the basic information about all organizations is publicly available. You just need to go to the official website of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation, go to the section of the special service called "Check yourself and your counterparty." The database of this service contains information about those companies that have emerged from October 2003 to the present. The receipt of data is absolutely free, however, the information is provided exclusively in electronic form.
How to use the service to find a company
Using this service to search for any company is simple and affordable for everyone. In a special table, you can fill in only one required field, in which you should indicate the tax number of the organization of interest. The TIN itself can be found from many sources, all firms usually indicate it on the seals, in official correspondence, contracts, and other documents. After filling in the field with TIN, you only need to enter the verification code and press the search button. Since the TIN is an individual requisite, there is usually only one company in the final list. By clicking on the link in its name, the user receives a short extract, which contains data on the name, organizational and legal form of this company, legal address, date of state registration, changes made to the register, reorganizations, liquidations.
Why is there such a service
The opportunity to find a company by TIN is provided by the tax service mainly for other business entities who can easily check their counterparty before concluding an agreement with him, transferring funds, or other cooperation. If a company was created recently, provides an incorrect address, is at a certain stage of reorganization or liquidation, then this will alert potential partners and save you from unnecessary risk. It should be noted that information about individual entrepreneurs is not provided by the service, since information about them is protected by legislation on the protection of personal data, which excludes its public dissemination. If you need to get an official, certified statement about a company, then after using the electronic search, you can contact the tax authorities directly.
