You are registered and filing — that part is settled. The question is narrower: when the base rate moved to 22%, did anyone actually re-examine your calculation, or did the filing continue as it was? Send us your last return and we will tell you, free of charge.
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A return that was correct in 2025 is not automatically correct now. Rate changes propagate unevenly through a filing process, and the errors they leave are quiet ones — no rejection, no notice, just a number that is wrong until someone checks it.
22% base, 18.03% computed — applied correctly, and to the right periods.
What went into it, and whether anything was included that should not have been.
B2B transactions where the buyer accounts for the tax, and whether they were treated consistently.
Whether what you actually sell today still matches what your registration describes.
An underpaid return does not bounce. It is accepted, processed, and sits there — accruing a shortfall and interest until a review finds it, which can be years later and several periods deep. By then the correction is larger and the conversation is different.
The reverse is just as common and less discussed: suppliers who overpaid after the change, because the safest-looking treatment was applied everywhere rather than where it belonged. That money is also recoverable, but only if someone notices.
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A senior adviser, not a checklist — within a few business days.
What is right, what is not, what is worth correcting. Yours to keep either way.
Corrections, ongoing filings, or nothing at all. No obligation attaches to the check.
The rate applied and how it was computed, the base it was applied to, the treatment of supplies where the buyer acts as agent, the currency and period conventions, and whether anything in your product mix has drifted out of what your registration describes. We come back with what is right, what is not, and what — if anything — is worth correcting.
The health-check itself is free and comes with a written conclusion you can keep, whatever it says. If the returns are clean, that is the answer and there is no obligation to do anything further. If corrections are needed, or you want the quarterly filings handled going forward, we quote for that separately and you decide.
Most of the errors we find are not incompetence — they are what happens when a filing runs on autopilot through a rate change. The question worth asking is not whether your adviser is good, but whether anyone actively re-examined your 2026 returns when the rate moved. If the answer is that the process simply continued, a second pair of eyes costs you nothing here.
Your most recent Russian VAT return and, ideally, the one before it. That is enough to start. If we need anything else — a sample invoice, the registration details — we will ask, but most checks do not require it.
We come back within a few business days of receiving the return. If something looks materially wrong, you will hear from us sooner than that, because deadlines for correcting a period are not indefinite.
Yes. We review it under the same professional obligations that apply to any engagement, whether or not you go on to instruct us. If you would rather have an NDA in place first, say so and we will send one.
If your 2026 filings are correct, we will say so and you will have it in writing. That is a useful thing to have regardless of who does your compliance.
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