How to check a counterparty: an overview of services. Checking counterparties for reliability: specialized services and self-checking Check the organization for integrity by TIN

The Federal Tax Service obliged all participants in the transaction to exercise due diligence. This concept appeared in the practice of tax disputes in 2006, and after some time it acquired a much greater meaning than it was originally intended to. What is due diligence? What methods and services exist to check the agent for reliability, we will analyze in this article.

Due diligence is a timely and detailed assessment of the reliability of the counterparty.

The reliability of a counterparty is a complex concept that includes the following criteria:

• the financial condition of the company;
• solvency;
• participation of the company in litigation;
• belonging of the company to the number of one-day firms.

Companies that value their financial condition and reputation have long carefully checked counterparties before concluding a deal. After all, as the proverb says, God saves the safe, and it’s better to check once than to spend a lot of money and time on litigation and restoring reputation in the future.

There are two ways to check the counterparty for reliability:

1. Conduct a self-check. To do this, request a number of documents from the partner:

• An extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, which will allow you to check the relevance of the constituent documents of a legal entity;
• Constituent documents (contract or charter of the organization). It is necessary to check the reliability of the data presented, reconcile with the date of registration indicated in the extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities;
• Certificate of OGRN and TIN;
• Annual balance sheet for the last reporting period;
• License, if required. Federal Law No. 99 “On Licensing Certain Types of Activities” helps to find out whether the activities of the audited counterparty are subject to licensing. It is important to check that the license has not expired.

Then you need to check the information provided on the Internet and other available sources of information. Below is a list of sites that will help analyze the documents provided by the counterparty:

Obviously, to check the counterparty, it is necessary to make many requests and analyze a large amount of information, which will take a lot of time and effort. This verification method is suitable if you need to check one counterparty. But if the company is large and concludes contracts with dozens of contractors every day, then such a check will take a lot of time. In this case, it is necessary to resort to the second method of checking counterparties.

1. Checking with a specialized program.

1C has developed a number of services for checking counterparties, such as and. The undoubted advantage of these services is that they are built directly into 1C: Enterprise and allow you to check counterparties from the directory of 1C counterparties.

1C: Counterparty includes the "Dossier of the counterparty". This service allows you to protect yourself from cooperation with one-day companies and financial losses. With the help of the 1C: Counterparty service, you can get acquainted with:

• extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities;
• counterparty reporting;
• the results of checks carried out in relation to the counterparty;
• visually presented information about the financial condition of the company, return on assets, as well as the risks of its bankruptcy.

All this information will help to evaluate the counterparty and draw a conclusion about its reliability and the possibilities of further work with it.

For a more thorough analysis and assessment of the reliability of the counterparty, the 1SPARK Risks service is suitable. The main difference between 1C:Contractor and 1SPARK The risks are in the timeliness of obtaining information from various sources (more than fifty sources, including Interfax, government agencies and private companies) and its provision to the client. So, the first service will inform about the fact that has already happened, and the second will warn your counterparty about any critical change, as soon as information about this arrives in any of the service sources. For example, if the company that is your counterparty is liquidated:

• using only the 1C: Counterparty service for verification, you will find out about this when the company is already liquidated, and its partners, who did not conduct a due diligence check in a timely manner, will already suffer financial losses;
• thanks to the verification in 1SPARK Risks, you will learn about the launch of the liquidation procedure in relation to a partner at the stage of initial submission of documents and will be able to protect yourself from such financial risks as transferring an advance payment, shipping goods without payment, and the like.

1SPARK Risks is a service designed for a comprehensive assessment of the reliability of a counterparty, as well as reducing the company's financial and tax risks. The main functions of 1SPARK Risks are:

1. Monitoring of counterparties, which allows you to track significant changes in counterparties and respond to them in a timely manner.
2. Indices 1SPARK Risks. Information about the timeliness of the company's payment of bills, its solvency, and whether this company is a one-day company is presented in the service in the form of three indices. For clarity, the indices are highlighted in color depending on the status of a particular indicator.
3. Possibility of ordering business-inquiries on checked counterparties. The certificate contains detailed information about the counterparty, 1SPARK Risk indices, results of inspections by state authorities, the company's participation in arbitration cases and enforcement proceedings, as well as identified risk factors. A business statement signed with an Interfax electronic signature is legally binding, can be presented in court, and is proof of due diligence.

The 1SPARK Risks service allows you to assess the reliability of a counterparty in two clicks, protect yourself from financial losses and tax proceedings, and also receive a document confirming due diligence.

As it became clear, the assessment of the reliability of a counterparty is a complex analysis of information from a huge number of sources, which takes a lot of time. Therefore, it is much better and more convenient to entrust this matter to specialized services and programs that, in a couple of minutes, will analyze the entire array of information about the counterparty being checked and provide it in the most visual and understandable form. Well, you and I can spend the freed time more productively!

Dear colleagues, be vigilant when concluding contracts with contractors. If you do not show due diligence in time, you can contact a bankrupt company or a one-night stand. To keep your business safe, connect the services and They will greatly facilitate the process of checking future partners. For doubters, test periods are available for 7 and 30 days, respectively.

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If there is no time to search on different sites, all information about the counterparty can be obtained in one place. Use the service "" (https://rnk.1cont.ru/), which was developed by the Russian Tax Courier magazine.

Right now, you can check the counterparty by TIN for free in the "Counterparties" program (using demo access).

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The Federal Tax Service can wrap up the deal and remove money from expenses if the simplistic person has not shown the so-called " due diligence when choosing a counterparty". The partner must be “clean” according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, pay taxes on time and in the proper amount, and not be a one-day business. Our service will provide complete information about your partner as the Federal Tax Service sees him.

An additional advantage of the service is that you will find out if the counterparty has cases in arbitration and whether bailiffs are digging for it. You can also trace the chain of connections of the counterparty with other firms and check if they are fake.

Government contracts and licenses of all companies are available in our file cabinet. For example, if you are buying alcohol, check if the supplier has a license.

Another important option is to find out if the company is being audited: tax, labor, etc.

Subscription cost

To use the service, subscribe. During the subscription period, it will be possible to check any number of counterparties.

According to the new law, it is necessary to check counterparties every time before a deal. In order not to check every day of the statement, just find your partners and click the button " Track Changes"- if suddenly the tax authorities suspect the company of unreliability, you will immediately receive a message in your personal account.

The Federal Tax Service reported on its website that it had flagged 800,000 companies as unreliable, making it dangerous to work with them. These labels are in our service. Therefore, you can check all partners and put them under control in one click.

The editors of the magazine "Russian Tax Courier" made a service specifically for accountants and managers. We have implemented the traffic light principle: the counterparty is highlighted red(can't work) yellow(to be checked) or green(safe to work with) color. And you do not have to be an advanced computer user or understand the intricacies of Article 54.1 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation through due diligence.

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In practice, most entrepreneurs, especially beginners, have many questions regarding the process of searching and checking counterparties: what tools should be used, whether there are free opportunities for this, what information needs to be analyzed, etc. Moreover, there are no standard rules and criteria for such verification . All actions that need to be taken are usually developed by companies in the process of analysis themselves, based on risk assessment.

According to Andrey Khrykin, project manager at Focus.Forum, the process of checking counterparties rests on three pillars:

• reliability - the intentions of the company and its relationship with the state and other business partners;
• evaluation - identification of the main evaluation criteria and objective information;
• knowledge - understanding what information is worth considering and what is not.

Why look for and check contractors?

Checking a counterparty is a complex and not one-time, as it may seem to many, work. But it is necessary, because at stake is the money and reputation of the company. No wonder the tax authorities warn that the responsibility for choosing a counterparty lies entirely with the company. Therefore, it should be interested in assessing the risks and tax consequences that may arise as a result of cooperation with dubious counterparties. If the tax authorities have claims against one of your counterparties, it is likely that you will unwittingly find yourself in trouble.

Verification of new counterparties is also necessary taking into account such a thing as “unjustified tax benefit”, which is supposed to be received by those entrepreneurs who minimize taxation by evading taxes.

How convenient is the service:

• The search for a company or individual entrepreneur is carried out by name, address, full name, TIN and other parameters. The relevance and reliability of information is guaranteed through access to official state open sources.
• In addition to fresh extracts from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and the EGRIP, the user receives data from the Card Index of the Supreme Arbitration Court, the Federal Bailiff Service, the Federal Treasury State Contract Database, the Unified Federal Register of Bankruptcy Information, and the Rosstat Accounting Database of Organizations.
• The company card, in addition to all other necessary information, includes a selection of links with references to the company on the Internet, which allows you to speed up the process of collecting facts by aggregating information from the media, from forums with reviews, from the company's website and the websites of its partners, suppliers and customers, from the issuer's information disclosure page, from news resources.
• The user of the service can put 1000 companies under observation. Having learned about changes in the data, Contour.Focus will notify the user about them by e-mail.
• The service is able to analyze organizations according to criteria pre-set by the user.

Offline verification of the counterparty, identification of suspicious signs

Armed with all sorts of free online verification tools, don't forget about offline investigation as well.

What needs to be done?

• Verify the actual location of the company at the address indicated in the documents.

This is especially necessary in cases where you are negotiating, for example, with a manufacturing company whose activities involve the presence of warehouses and premises for production. Unscrupulous counterparties may indicate non-existent addresses.

• To get acquainted personally with the management of the company when discussing the terms of cooperation and concluding deals.
• Make sure that the company intends to fulfill the terms of the deal.

This can only be understood in the course of negotiations, by observing the behavior of the leadership. You should be wary if the counterparty is in a hurry to conclude a deal and wants to quickly agree on payment, while luring you with low prices and unrealistic conditions.

• Make sure that the conditions specified in the contract are feasible for the counterparty.

Does the counterparty have real opportunities to fulfill the terms of the contract? Will he be able to meet the deadlines for the production or delivery of the product? Will they violate deadlines when performing work?

When deciding on cooperation with a company or individual entrepreneur, the question of the reliability and honesty of the Counterparty constantly arises. This applies to the situation when an Individual orders a product or service, as well as the situation when a Legal Entity begins cooperation with a new Supplier / Partner / Client.

When making a payment (prepayment) for goods or services, it must be clearly understood that the Supplier will fulfill all its obligations, deliver the goods or provide the service clearly and on time.

It is important to check the Counterparty and choose reliable companies to eliminate the possible risks of supplying low-quality goods, lack of warranty service.

For Legal entities, verification of the Counterparty is the main action to prevent financial and tax risks. The Federal Tax Service strongly recommends checking Counterparties and exercising Due Diligence using all available open and legitimate sources of information. The easiest way to Check the Counterparty is to get an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities / EGRIP on the tax website. For more complete information, it is recommended to use the service for checking counterparties ZACHESTNYYBUSINESS.

On the ZACHESTNYYBUSINESS portal, you can check the Counterparty of a legal entity or individual entrepreneur for free according to information from official open sources (FTS, ROSSTAT, etc.)

The data on the portal is updated daily and synchronized with the nalog.ru service of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation*.

For a free check of the Counterparty by TIN / OGRN / full name / Name, use the search box:

To do this, enter the TIN or OGRN of the company in the search box.

If you do not have the exact details, it will be enough to enter the name of the company. If the name is common and a list appears at your request, it is advisable to clarify the request:
. enter the name of the company + the surname of the director (for example: TECHPROM IVANOV)
. or: company name + location (for example: TEHPROM MOSCOW)
. or all parameters at once (for example: TEHPROM IVANOV MOSCOW)

A brief algorithm for Checking the Counterparty (how to determine a reliable Counterparty using HONEST BUSINESS.RF):

1. The organization must exist, its status must be Active.
2. The company should not be in special registers of the tax service (FTS), otherwise a red inscription will appear on the card under the name of the company. For example:
   There is no connection with the legal entity by legal entity. address (according to the Federal Tax Service).
3. Companies with a period of activity of less than a year have increased risks (determined by the date of registration). According to statistics, every 3rd company ceases operations during the first year.
4. The company must be located at the address of registration. The company must not have a mass registration address. How many companies are still registered at this address is indicated in the card under the address. Bulk addresses are often used by unscrupulous companies or fly-by-night companies.
5. The types of activities of the company must coincide in meaning with the actual activities of the company.
6. Head (director) of the company. If you know who the head of the company is, check this data. There are cases when companies are registered with nominee managers, i.e. persons not participating in the activity. This is one of the main signs of unscrupulous companies.
7. Check the number of employees. A company that does not have its own employees and material and technical base may not fulfill its obligations.
8. Check the availability of registration in off-budget funds. Without registration, for example, in the FIU, the company cannot transfer funds to the Pension Fund.
9. The authorized capital of the company. The minimum in the Russian Federation is 10,000 rubles. The larger the authorized capital, the less risks when working with the Counterparty.
10. It is also worth paying attention to Financial indicators (does not apply to companies that have existed for less than a year). We pay attention to the articles: “Net profit (loss)” - a loss-making company may have financial problems. The article “Fixed assets” shows the presence of Property in the ownership of the company.
11. Particular attention should be paid to the data of the Arbitration Court (a separate tab in the card of a Legal Entity or an Individual Entrepreneur on the HONEST BUSINESS portal). The presence of court cases on non-fulfillment of obligations and claims for the recovery of funds against the audited Organization indicates the unreliability of the Counterparty.
12. Check the FSSP data. The presence of enforcement proceedings indicates the forced collection of funds from the audited company.

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* The data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities / EGRIP are open and are provided on the basis of paragraph 1 of article 6 of the Federal Law of August 08, 2001 No. 129-FZ “On State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs”: Information and documents contained in state registers are open and publicly available, with the exception of information to which access is restricted, namely information about documents proving the identity of an individual. On the website ZACHESTNYYBUSINESS.RF you can check the Counterparty for free and exercise Due Diligence. All instructions and requirements presented on the website ZACHESTNYYBUSINESS.RF are non-binding and are advisory in nature. Recommendations are given for the possible reduction of economic risks. When concluding transactions, taxpayers, first of all, must take into account the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. By virtue of the principle of freedom of economic activity, the taxpayer carries out entrepreneurial activity independently at his own risk. The administration of the site ZACHESTNYYBUSINESS.RF is not responsible for possible economic losses / cases of lost income and does not give any guarantees or assurances to third parties.