During the eight months of 2026, Russian banks paid fines of 553 million rubles for errors and delays in transferring customer information to the Federal Tax Service. This is 29 times more than in the same period last year. The increase in payments shows the cost of failures in data exchange with the Federal Tax Service.
Separately, the banks transferred 33 million rubles for non-compliance with decisions to block debtors' accounts. Here, the fines increased almost fivefold. Losses are created in two stages of tax control: during the transfer of data and during the execution of debt collection decisions. A mistake in any of these processes becomes an independent basis for sanctions for the bank.
The increase in fines is related to the strengthening of tax supervision, automation of collection and an increase in the number of electronic orders. The banks need to process more claims while maintaining the deadlines and accuracy of the transactions. Against the background of the expansion of electronic interaction, violations are no longer an isolated technical episode: they are reflected more and more in the costs of credit institutions.