Technoinvest Alliance Deploys Data Mart for Tax Monitoring
Technoinvest Alliance, which is developing the Zashikhinsky rare-metals deposit, has automated its interaction with the Federal Tax Service (FTS). The IT backbone is the Saby Tax data mart, which integrates with the automated information system Nalog-3.
FTS inspectors now have direct access to the company's records through secure channels. They can obtain the documents they need 30 times faster, while Technoinvest Alliance employees have been almost completely freed from processing requests and sending data.
All Data in One Data Mart
The company participates in an agreement on the protection and promotion of investments (known as SZPK), which requires it to switch to tax monitoring. Under this model, the FTS oversees not only taxes but also actual expenditures to verify that government support for the investment project is justified. Technoinvest Alliance is building a mining and metallurgical complex.
Handling tax-service requests manually used to take substantial time, as employees had to locate and send hundreds of documents. With Saby Tax in place, that work is no longer necessary: data only needs to be uploaded to the platform once, after which it becomes available to tax inspectors. Saby automatically locates the documents relevant to a request and ranks them according to specified criteria. Information is exchanged using cryptographic protection tools hosted in a TIER III data center.
The transition to tax monitoring took less than six months and was delivered as a turnkey project by Saby specialists from Tensor, a Russian IT holding company.
A Unified Digital Environment
Since this year, participants in tax monitoring have been required to use continuous machine-to-machine (M2M) interaction between their ERP systems and the Nalog-3 AIS. Tax data marts are integrated into a unified ECM, electronic document management and internal control environment, creating a single information space. Inspectors work with an agreed-upon data set, while corporate gateways automatically route the required information. This automation sharply reduces the cost of maintaining tax-specialist staff, freeing resources for strategic planning.
The number of companies participating in tax monitoring is growing. In 2025, the program included 737 companies; today, that number has reached 870, with more than 80% already connected to the FTS platform. Russia's model is also drawing interest abroad: the FTS has shared its expertise with Kazakhstan and presented the approach at a UN forum. Interest from foreign jurisdictions suggests that Russia is developing an emerging global standard for digital tax administration.
Digital Tax Oversight
Technoinvest Alliance is far from the first company in the industry to adopt the approach. As early as 2022, major steelmakers including MMK and Mechel, along with Norilsk Nickel's subsidiaries, gave the FTS access to their accounting and tax systems through data marts.
In 2023, the FTS launched the unified Nalogovyy monitoring (Tax Monitoring) integration platform. Companies began connecting their previously separate information systems to the Nalog-3 AIS. By mid-2024, more than 100 of the largest taxpayers had joined the platform. That same year, the tax service shifted its focus toward investment projects and adapted the formats for SZPK participants, expanding oversight to cover actual expenditures reimbursed by the government. Over the past two years, tax monitoring has become a mandatory standard for digital interaction between businesses and the government.
A New Standard for Corporate Transparency
The drive to reduce manual document exchange with the FTS is creating sustained demand for sophisticated integration platforms and information security solutions. For Russia's IT sector, this creates a dependable market for B2B products, with regulatory requirements serving as a driver of innovation. Such tools are particularly important in capital-intensive industries, where an error or delay in validating investment tax deductions can cost hundreds of millions of rubles (roughly $1 million or more).
Deploying IT solutions for seamless interaction with the FTS reduces administrative workload and makes strategic investment projects more transparent from the construction stage onward. Instead of merely being subject to inspection, a company becomes a digital partner whose financial architecture can be viewed and verified in real time. Thus, automated tax monitoring is becoming a new standard for capital-intensive industrial enterprises.
