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Federal service of RF
tax police (FSNP )
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Tax
police now hardly outraces FSB on its apprising and consequence. The question
is that the counter-intelligence in Soviet time was powerful by no means of the
secret Shtirlitz (ahero-intelligence form a popular Russian film), "inflated"
members of "Alfa", professional "spotters" and etc. The main power of KGB was
presented by the large army of voluntary informers who were attracted by a
possibility of unpunished damage of the life of almost each USSR citizen by
hands of KGB. Today there is not an incentive to inform this special service -
now FSB is not able to spoil the career to a loveless man of wealth or to an
above measure purse-proud relative.
However
our vigilant fellow citizens are not left without a thoughtful and thankful
listener. The place of KGB has been taken by FSNP. Very few will come to the
scratch to quarrel with this organization: everybody has some peccadillo on
non-payment of taxes, it’s better not to risk. Since the time of its foundation
in March, 1992 the tax police continues to accrete by full powers like a shot.
Already on July 02, 1992 the tax police - at that time it was still the
Headquarters of tax investigations - got the right at intelligence-retrieval
activity, and in September, 1992 the officers of tax police got the right at
bear arms, use of special means and physical power. In 1995 this service was
allowed to carry out the prejudicial inquiry and after this in the compound of
FSNP there was created a special unit for organized crime control. The
department gained the offingto get information from abroad: tax police signed
the agreement on information exchange with the analog services of different
countries including the outer foreign ones. Besides the tax police in affect
began to control its "parent" - State tax service (Gosnalogslughba - GNS) - by
instating the right to carry out the tax inspections after GNS inspections. As
a natural special service the tax police can intrude its action officers into
the enterprises for the essential information getting and besides to encourage
the informers as it has the right to pay up to 10% from the non-paid sums to
the budget to the informer. Tax officers has the right to receive any
information concerning the subject who they are interested in (including the
information constituent the official and commercial secrecy) from the bodies of
power, banks and so on. At the beginning of 2000 a further expansion of FSNP
rights supervened.
Under
the law "On federal bodies of tax police" the federal bodies of tax police are
the law machinery and the element of forces which provide the economic security
of Russian Federation. FSNP comprises the number of Russian special services.
The
tasks of federal bodies of tax police are the following:
release, prevention and suppression
of tax crimes and offenses. About other economic crimes released within this
activity the bodies of tax police are to inform the appropriate law machinery;
security provision of state tax
inspections’ activity, protection of their officers from unlawful entrenchment
on their duty;
prevention, release and suppression
of corruption in tax bodies.
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