Checking a self-employed contractor — at registration and before every payout. The passport is recognised without manual entry, the taxpayer number (INN) is determined from the passport, and the professional income tax (NPD) status, wanted lists and debts are checked in one run of checks. Payouts and receipts stay with your partner bank.
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A self-employed person works under a civil-law contract and pays tax themselves — but the status, the receipt and the nature of the work are checked by the customer. Since 1 October 2026 rules for intermediary digital platforms have been added.
NeuroVision checks the person and the document. Payouts, receipts and the decision on the contract are up to the platform.
422-FZ, Art. 4, 5, 6, 14, 15.
Law of 31.07.2025 No. 289-FZ, Art. 2, 5, 15, 17; Government Decree of 20.06.2026 No. 768. In force from 1 October 2026.
Labour Code of the Russian Federation, Art. 15, 19.1; Code of Administrative Offences, Art. 5.27, Parts 4–5.
A check at registration confirms the status only for that day. The status can be removed by the contractor or by the tax authority, and the right to the tax regime is lost retroactively — from the day the ground arose.
NeuroVision checks the status of an NPD payer by the INN from the passport — 5 ₽ per check. A repeat check before a payout is made by the saved INN, without uploading the document again.
The contractor submits an application in “My Tax” on any day, and the date of the application is the date of deregistration. The platform does not learn about it until it checks the status again.
Income over the annual limit, a hired employee, resale of goods — grounds for losing the right to the tax regime. The right is considered lost from the day the ground arose, and the tax authority deregisters on its own.
Income from an employer and from a former employer within two years after dismissal is not subject to the self-employed tax. The status in the Federal Tax Service remains valid in this case — such a case is not visible in the databases, check against the HR records.
One can register again only if there are no debts on taxes, penalties and fines. A contractor who had the status a month ago may not have it today — and vice versa.
An organisation that pays a self-employed person does not withhold personal income tax and does not pay contributions only while there is a receipt and the contractor is an NPD payer on the payout date.
A payment to a self-employed person is not subject to insurance contributions only if the organisation or sole proprietor has a receipt. No receipt — contributions are charged as for an ordinary contract with an individual.
Without a receipt, the expenses for the self-employed person's work and services do not reduce corporate profit tax, simplified-system tax or the entrepreneur's personal income tax.
On payment by card or transfer the receipt is generated at the moment of settlement, with other non-cash settlements — by the 9th of the next month. The receipt can be received on a phone, by e-mail or by QR code.
If on the payout date the person is no longer self-employed, their receipt is invalid. The customer withholds personal income tax as a tax agent and pays contributions.
Checking the document and the status does not protect against requalification: it is determined by how the work is organised. The platform manages this with order rules, not with checks. Six signs that the authorities and the law name directly.
The contractor obeys the customer, works to a schedule and internal rules, and receives tasks like an employee.
The work is done only with the customer's materials, tools and equipment.
Regular fixed payments and payment records that resemble payroll calculation rather than a fee for each order.
A self-employed person works mainly for one customer and on a permanent basis. On a platform the law restricts this: systematic work for one customer is limited.
A partner-contractor has the right not to accept an order without sanctions and chooses the place and time themselves. Mandatory shifts and fines for refusal are a sign of employment.
A person quits and a month later works for the same company as a self-employed person — their income is not subject to the self-employed tax, and the Federal Tax Service sees the link.
Verifying freelancers on a marketplace and admitting a technician to a client's home are different tasks. The set of checks depends on whether the contractor meets the client, who makes the payouts and whether there are foreigners among the contractors.
The contractor photographs the passport in the platform's app — the rest goes on without them. Before each payout the platform repeats the status check by the saved INN.
The contractor photographs the passport in the web widget or in the platform's app. The full name, date of birth, series and number are recognised and arrive as JSON fields, and the document is checked for a photo of a screen, a pasted-in photo and traces of editing.
From the passport the system obtains the INN from the Federal Tax Service and checks the NPD payer status. In the same run — passport validity, wanted lists, enforcement proceedings and courts; for a foreigner — the register of controlled persons of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The platform matches the passport number and the INN with its own contractor database — a second account is visible before admission to orders. Before a payout or a payout register the status is checked again.
Payouts go to someone who did not work
A drop registers with a photo of someone else's passport or a scan from a leak, and another person withdraws the money. Against it — a photo of a document from a screen and a photocopy are visible to anti-fraud, and the validity of the passport — against the Ministry of Internal Affairs database.
Rating and bonuses — again
A contractor was blocked for failed orders or client complaints and registers again with a different phone number. Against it — matching the passport number and the INN with the platform's database.
Contributions instead of savings
The contractor deregistered or lost the right to the regime, and the platform pays under the old status. Against it — a status check before every payout.
A sign of disguised employment
A company dismisses an employee and immediately concludes a contract with them as a self-employed person. Their income from you is not subject to the self-employed tax for two years. Against it — matching with the HR records, the databases do not show this.
A person from the Ministry of Internal Affairs register
The period of stay or the residence permit has expired, the foreigner is entered in the register of controlled persons, but keeps taking orders. Against it — a check against the Ministry of Internal Affairs register at registration and again later.
Self-employed tax
Status — on the payout date
Registration and deregistration. Without NeuroVision — “My Tax”, Gosuslugi or an authorised bank; NeuroVision does not register.
Receipt. Without NeuroVision — the contractor in “My Tax”, through an authorised bank or an electronic platform operator; NeuroVision does not generate or check receipts.
Payouts and summary income data. Without NeuroVision — a bank or platform connected to the information exchange with the Federal Tax Service; NeuroVision does not make payouts and does not provide access to the “My Tax” API.
Passport data. Without NeuroVision — manually: the contractor enters it themselves, with errors in the INN and the full name; NeuroVision — recognition without manual entry, fields in JSON.
Authenticity. Without NeuroVision — visually from the photo; NeuroVision — document anti-fraud: screen, photocopy, pasted-in photo, editor.
Repeat registration. Without NeuroVision — by phone and e-mail, which are changed in a minute; NeuroVision — the passport number and the INN for matching with your database.
NPD status. Without NeuroVision — the Federal Tax Service service by INN, one person at a time; NeuroVision — by passport: the INN is determined automatically, 5 ₽.
Wanted lists, debts, courts. Without NeuroVision — each website separately; NeuroVision — one run of checks, namesakes are filtered out by date of birth and INN.
Foreigner. Without NeuroVision — the Ministry of Internal Affairs website, one person at a time; NeuroVision — the register of controlled persons of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 5 ₽, via the API.
A single contractor can be checked for free on the Federal Tax Service and Ministry of Internal Affairs websites. NeuroVision is needed when there are hundreds of contractors and the status has to be confirmed before every payout.
Citizens of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine register as NPD payers through the taxpayer's personal account. Citizens of other states do not apply the professional income tax — they work under a contract with personal income tax withheld or through a sole proprietorship.
A foreign national's passport is recognised without retyping — 195+ countries and territories, Latin and Cyrillic, MRZ. The register of controlled persons of the Ministry of Internal Affairs — by full name, date of birth and document, 5 ₽. Wanted lists and lists — by full name and date of birth. NPD status — by INN, if the contractor provided it.
A contract with a foreigner for work or services is grounds for a notification to the Ministry of Internal Affairs within no more than 3 working days. Whether this applies to orders through a platform and to self-employed citizens of the EAEU is for a lawyer to decide. The platform law obliges the operator to comply with the legislation on foreigners. For details on hiring foreigners — see the page on hiring foreign workers.
The professional income tax is not available to all foreigners. For the rest, the platform is an ordinary customer under a civil-law contract with a foreigner, with its own obligations.
Each check is switched on separately, payment is for the requests made. A check for which there was not enough data is marked skipped and is not charged.
Contractor's passport
Recognition without manual entry and an authenticity check.
The passport is recognised from a photo: full name, date of birth, series and number, date of issue arrive as JSON fields without retyping.
from 16 ₽ with anti-fraud
Learn moreA foreign contractor's passport is recognised without retyping: Latin, Cyrillic and MRZ.
from 16 ₽ with anti-fraud
Learn moreA photo of a screen, a photocopy, a pasted-in photo and traces of editing — the document check is included in the “Document” package.
included in the package
Learn moreThe authenticity and validity of a Russian passport through the interagency interaction system. It catches expired, replaced, lost and invalid documents and verifies that the passport was issued to this particular person.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreTax status
INN and self-employed status by passport.
Determining the tax number from the passport data. It unlocks the checks that need precise identification of the person — with no namesakes.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreConfirmation of registration as a payer of professional income tax.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreA search of the federal bankruptcy register: personal bankruptcy cases filed and completed. By tax number the result is unambiguous.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreA full check of an individual against 16 key databases on one passport. Separately the set would cost 80 ₽.
50 ₽
Learn moreBefore admission to a client
With the contractor's consent.
The federal wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the wanted lists of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Federal Bailiff Service — by full name and date of birth. Each database is a separate check.
5 ₽ per database
Learn moreActive enforcement proceedings from the bailiffs' database: the amounts owed, the claimants, the type of recovery and an estimate of how close the person is to bankruptcy given their total debts.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreCriminal, civil and administrative cases — a search of proceedings in courts of general jurisdiction by full name and date of birth.
5 ₽
Learn moreForeign contractors and large payouts
By full name and date of birth.
A check on a foreign national against the register of controlled persons that the police have kept since February 2025: people who have lost the legal grounds to stay in Russia. Russian citizens do not need the check — by law they are not in the register.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreScreening against the list of people involved in extremist activity or terrorism. A mandatory check under 115-FZ.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreInternational screening against politically exposed persons and their associates, sanctions lists and adverse media.
36 ₽
Learn moreA fixed price per check, no subscription fee. A typical onboarding of a self-employed person — passport recognition and the package of 16 checks; before a payout — only the status, 5 ₽.
5 ₽ per check
Self-employed status before a payout, INN by passport, wanted lists, enforcement proceedings, the register of controlled persons of the Ministry of Internal Affairs — separately.
50 ₽ per package (3.125 ₽ per check)
For onboarding a contractor with a Russian passport: passport validity, INN, self-employed status, wanted lists, debts, bankruptcy, courts, lists and sanctions. Separately — 80 ₽.
from 16 ₽ per check
Recognition of a Russian passport or a foreign national's passport, document anti-fraud; an additional document in the same session — 10 ₽.
The recognition price falls with volume: at 10 000 checks a year — 18 ₽, at 50 000 — 16 ₽. International compliance screening — 36 ₽.
A small company with a pool of self-employed people will be fine with the web interface. For a platform — a widget in the contractor registration form and an API before every payout.
Payment for completed checks, support through a ticket system.
Contractor onboarding should not take more than a couple of minutes, and the status check should not hold up payouts.
The contractor does not enter the INN and passport data manually, the platform does not open the Federal Tax Service and Ministry of Internal Affairs websites. The result of each check — with the source and the date: it can be kept next to the payout.
There is no need to assemble a solution from several vendors and reconcile their responses.
The platform is in the register of Russian software No. 19972.
Briefly on the concepts a platform deals with when paying the self-employed.
The platform economy law, passport verification and data protection — in our blog.
Recognise the passport, check it for forgery and validity, obtain the INN from the passport and check the status of a professional income tax payer. For contractors who come to clients — with their consent, wanted lists and enforcement proceedings. In NeuroVision this is passport recognition and one run of checks against the databases.
A contractor can deregister on any day, and when the 2.4 million ₽ limit is exceeded the right to the regime is lost from the day of exceeding. A payout to someone who is no longer self-employed is subject to insurance contributions, and the customer becomes a tax agent for personal income tax. A repeat check in NeuroVision — 5 ₽ by the saved INN.
Yes. The Federal Tax Service service checks the status only by INN, so NeuroVision first determines the INN by the Russian passport and then checks the status — both steps cost 5 ₽ and are included in the package of 16 checks for 50 ₽.
Match the passport number and the INN from the NeuroVision response with the platform's contractor database: a phone and e-mail are changed in a minute, a passport and an INN are not. Document anti-fraud filters out someone else's passport from a screen or a photocopy. We do not offer duplicate search by face on this page.
Yes, but this cannot be checked against the databases. Income from an employer and from a former employer within two years after dismissal is not subject to the self-employed tax. Match the contractor's INN against the HR records.
Yes, if they are a citizen of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan or Ukraine: they register through the taxpayer's personal account. Citizens of other states do not apply the professional income tax. For a foreigner, NeuroVision recognises the passport and checks it against the register of controlled persons of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, wanted lists and lists.
The payout is subject to insurance contributions, and the expenses do not reduce corporate profit tax or simplified-system tax. On payment by card or transfer the receipt is generated at the moment of settlement, with other non-cash settlements — by the 9th of the next month. NeuroVision does not generate or check receipts.
The Federal Tax Service names organisational and infrastructural dependence, payment resembling a salary and a single customer. The platform law adds: an order — for a specific job, without a schedule, with the right to refuse. For an organisation the fine under Part 4 of Art. 5.27 of the Code of Administrative Offences is from 50 000 to 100 000 ₽, repeated — up to 200 000 ₽.
Since 1 October 2026 the operator of a platform from the register of intermediary digital platforms checks information on the partner when concluding a contract: for a self-employed person — full name, INN and application of NPD via the Federal Tax Service. The partner-contractor works on specific orders, without a schedule, and systematic work for one customer is limited. NeuroVision provides the INN by passport and the NPD status; the method of confirming the INN is chosen by the operator.
No. Payouts, receipts and registration are done by banks and platform operators connected to the information exchange with the Federal Tax Service. NeuroVision checks the person and the document: the passport, INN, status and databases.
Checks are available only to legal entities and sole proprietors under a contract. For contractors who come to clients, it is better to obtain consent to personal data processing as a separate document at registration.
Database checks — 5 ₽, the package of 16 checks on a passport — 50 ₽, document recognition with anti-fraud — from 16 ₽, there is no subscription fee. Test access — 1 month.
Tell us how many contractors register per month, how often you pay and whether there are foreigners among the contractors — we will put together a set of checks and give you test access.
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