In Russia, banks paid 553 million rubles in fines for errors when transferring data to the Federal Tax Service in January-August 2026.
During January-August 2026, Russian banks paid more than half a billion rubles in fines for "delays and errors" in transferring data to the Federal Tax Service. This amount is 29 times more than a year earlier, when it was 19 million rubles.
Payments also increased for failure to execute decisions to block accounts receivable (33 million versus 7 million) and for failure to fulfill orders to transfer taxes (19 million versus 3.2 million).
The reasons are related to the strengthening of tax control and the automation of debt collection. Since 2025, the banks have started collecting debts of ordinary citizens without a court, and due to changes in the tax rules (increasing VAT and reducing the threshold for simple businesses) the number of orders has increased sharply. Banks do not have time to process such a flow, and careful checks immediately reveal delays.
Because of this, customers suffer: even a short stop in payments can disrupt arrangements with suppliers, delay salaries or temporarily deny a person access to some of the funds.