When entering into marriage and changing their surname to the surname of the husband, many women are faced with the need to reissue many documents. Starting to change them from the most important - a passport, one should not forget about others whose eligibility may disappear as soon as the name is changed in the passport. The most common cases of substitutions after a passport are procedures for replacing a policy or a driver’s license. A logical question arises - is it necessary to change the TIN when changing the name.
In order to understand this issue, you should know that the taxpayer identification number is given to every citizen only once in a lifetime, he is clearly attached to the person who received it once, and remains unchanged for the rest of his life. For this reason, changing the TIN when changing the name (in the sense of getting a new number) is not needed, moreover, it is impossible, because a person with a changed last name, in fact, remains the same taxpayer that he was before the change of name. However, if the question of whether it is necessary to change the TIN when changing the name has a different essence, namely, changing the official document with fixing the changes that have taken place, then each person has the right to make such a replacement.
The law does not require reporting a change of surname due to the fact that all data on the issuance of a new passport must reach the tax office without any additional notice from the party who replaced it. However, the legislation of the Russian Federation does not prevent the receipt of a new certificate, which will reflect the change of name that has occurred while maintaining a permanent TIN number. This certificate is issued by the local tax office where the person is registered. To do this, you need to go through a simple procedure - write a statement on the issuance of a certificate taking into account the changes in the last name and contact the local tax authority.
Changing the TIN when changing the name is carried out quite quickly. However, the simplicity of this procedure is overshadowed by long lines in the tax service. For this reason, many firms offer services such as changing the TIN when changing the name. In this case, the taxpayer does not spend days standing up for queues, but receives a document already upon readiness. The new certificate will record the change in last name.
How to change the TIN when changing the name? When contacting the tax service with a request to replace the certificate, you should also provide a number of supporting documents: a passport, which serves for identification, a certificate of marriage, which serves as confirmation of the fact that the name is changed. You should also return to the tax office a certificate issued earlier in the old name.
It will take two or more days to prepare and issue a new document. This must be taken into account if a tax identification number may be required for urgent presentation. Do not forget about the need to change many other documents. This process is quite troublesome and will require a lot of effort to appeal to various authorities and time costs. If you have planned any activities related to the presentation of new documents, then you should not postpone the issue of bringing them into proper form with fixing a new name. After all, the deadline for obtaining new documents (in particular, a TIN certificate with a new surname) can stretch for several days or even weeks. That is why many women entering marriage leave their previous names. By doing this, they simply save themselves from a rather tedious task - replacing all documents with the old surname.