The Federal Tax Service's own official Telegram assistant for Russia's Unified Tax Account (ЕНС) — a guided Q&A that helps you work out whether you need to file a notification of calculated tax amounts and by when, straight from the tax service itself.
fns_checker_bot, publicly named "Помощник по ЕНС" ("ENS Assistant"), is the Federal Tax Service's own chat-bot for Russia's Unified Tax Account system, launched in March 2023 alongside the ENS reform itself and confirmed by regional tax-office press releases at the time. Unlike a private aggregator guessing at your tax situation from public data, this assistant is built and maintained by the tax authority that actually administers the ENS.
Rather than showing a live balance — that still requires signing in to the separate, authenticated "Личный кабинет налогоплательщика" — the bot works as a guided questionnaire: it asks about your business structure, tax regime, whether you have employees, and what property you own, then tells you which notifications about calculated tax amounts you need to file and by when. It is aimed squarely at the most confusing part of the 2023 ENS reform — figuring out when and what to report before the money actually leaves your account.
Because it doesn't require you to hand over your INN or personal identifiers to get an answer, it sidesteps the biggest safety concern in this subtopic. The trade-off is scope: it won't tell you your actual current debt or overpayment on the ENS, and it has no confirmed English interface — treat it as a decision-tree for reporting obligations rather than a balance checker. For the live number, you still need the authenticated personal account or the payment channels it points you toward.
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| Criterion | Weight | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Functionality | 25 | 6 / 10 | |
| Reliability & speed | 15 | 7 / 10 | |
| Popularity & trust | 15 | 4 / 10 | |
| Price & free tier | 10 | 10 / 10 | |
| Usability | 10 | 7 / 10 | |
| Safety & privacy | 10 | 9 / 10 | |
| Freshness | 5 | 4 / 10 | |
| Localization | 5 | 2 / 10 | |
| No intrusive ads | 5 | 10 / 10 | |
| Score | 100 | 65.5 |
No — it's a guided questionnaire about reporting obligations; your actual ENS balance requires signing in to the authenticated Личный кабинет налогоплательщика.
Yes — its March 2023 launch under the name "Помощник по ЕНС" was covered by multiple regional tax-office press releases as an official FNS tool. Note this is a separate, Telegram-specific tool from the FNS website's "Таксик" widget — and police have separately warned about fake bots impersonating "Таксик," so always start from t.me/fns_checker_bot rather than an unfamiliar search result.
No — the bot's questions are about your business structure and tax regime, not personal identifiers.