“Payment of taxes via problem banks,” Ruslan Mukhametshin comments to Russian Legal Information Agency
The controversy over payment of taxes via the so-called "problem banks" began in the late 90-ies. Under the current Tax code, a taxpayer is not liable for disruptions to the financial system: he is only obliged to hand over the payment order for remittance of taxes to the Treasury and to have on Deposit the necessary amount.
The expert from Prime Advice Ruslan Mukhametshin is also convinced that a normal taxpayer has no effective mechanisms for monitoring the financial condition of credit institutions: "Even the Bank of Russia, with its significant opportunities revokes the license at the last moment, when the bank's negative equity is obvious. To regard the reluctance of companies to check and analyze the banks' statements as a bad faith is absurd – they don't simply do not have the tools. And the bank's reporting can be unreliable," – the expert said.