The data center will help the FNS to collect taxes more efficiently, better assist businesses, and streamline communications between the agency and Russian citizens, officials said.
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The Federal Tax Service (FNS) has opened the country's first "federal data center" in Dubna, near Moscow, which will be used to consolidate, process, analyze and store all available tax information around the country in one place. The data center is the first of 13 such facilities to be built, as part of the FNS's plans to create an online portal to process tax returns.
"All personal data will be protected," said Mikhail Mishustin, head of the FNS, to RG.ru. He added that the data center can handle up to 60 million tax returns, and will be complimented by the creation of a new website that will provide online tax services to Russian citizens. The new portal will have the added benefit of reducing administrative procedures and ensuring people's interaction with the FNS is as "comfortable as possible", Mishustin added.
Asked why FNS chose to locate its data center in Dubna, Mishustin said the cost of electricity was cheaper there than in Moscow, and it had excellent telecommunications links to the rest of the country. Dubna was selected as the site for the FNS' main federal data center, and two regional data centers will open in the Volgograd and Nizhny Novgorod regions by 2018, Mishustin revealed. These will be followed by ten more data centers located in cities throughout Russia.
Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime Minister, said the new data center would help the FNS to assist Russian businesses more effectively, and speed up its communications with citizens.
Anton Siluanov, Acting Minister of Finance, said the FNS would become more efficient now that everyone's data is centralized. "It means there will be less opportunities for tax evasion," Siluanov said. "We're expecting tax revenues to increase by 18 percent this year."
Mr. Siluanov said this would be possible despite an expected decrease in income tax revenues of 2.5 trillion rubles, citing an increase related to oil and gas revenues.
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