On average, the total number of payments was reduced by 73%. In monetary terms, this amounted to about 77 million rubles. The total amount of savings, both at the pretrial and trial stage, reached almost 2 billion rubles.

Analysts also found out that 63% of successful cases resulted in 47% of them were settled completely at the pretrial stage, and 26% - were settled partially. At the same time, the company's experts point out that it's quite hard to meet the customer request during the litigation stage-just 16% of all the cases have been closed in favor of the customer.

"In our practice we often encounter situations when a business comes to us with a request to solve a problem at an extremely critical time for it. In order to increase their chances of saving money and possibly getting their claims fully expunged, we always recommend that clients prepare for a tax audit well in advance. As research has shown, you can't let the situation get out of control and start a legal investigation," commented Mikhail Begunov, Managing Partner of Tax Compliance.