The Federal Taxation Service (Russian: Федеральная налоговая служба, romanized: Federalnaya nalogovaya sluzhba) or shortly FNS (Russian: ФНС) is a federal body of executive authority in Russia responsible for carrying out state registration of legal entities and natural persons as individual entrepreneurs and farmsteads.
It is also a federal body of executive authority responsible for ensuring the presentation of claims for mandatory payments in bankruptcy cases and bankruptcy procedures, as well as the Russian Federation's claims under monetary obligations.
[citation needed] The Service's HQ is located in 23 Neglinnaya Street, Moscow.
Daniil Yegorov is the current commissioner of the Federal Taxation Service.
In December 1998 it was elevated to the rank of Ministry for Tax and Revenue of Russia.