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06 ·Tax registration without a company

Pay VAT. Skip the entity.

Foreign companies supplying electronic services to individuals in Uzbekistan must register for VAT — no local entity required. We act as your tax representative: registration, returns, payments.

Price
Enquiry
scoped per platform · Tax Code Chapter 39, Art. 278–282
What's included

What the price covers.

VAT registration
as a foreign supplier — no entity
Quarterly returns & payment
filed and paid by the 20th
Personal cabinet, run for you
electronic filing, CBU conversion
A reply in two business days
scoped by our tax team
Who must register · Art. 278

Selling to individuals? You. To companies? Nobody.

The qualifying question — answer it before anything else on this page.

Your customers are individuals
You register and account for 12% VAT — Chapter 39, within 30 calendar days of starting supply.
Your customers are Uzbek legal entities
The buyer is the tax agent. You have no registration obligation — nothing to buy here.
30
Calendar days to register · Art. 279

Selling through an intermediary? Whoever settles directly with the individual is the tax agent — in a chain, the one closest to the buyer.

What counts · Art. 282

Fourteen categories. One test.

Delivered over the internet, consumed digitally. If a courier is involved, it isn’t on this list.

  • Software & database licensing, incl. games
  • E-books & publications
  • Images, music & audiovisual works
  • Internet advertising & ad space
  • Listing offers to buy or sell
  • Marketplace platform services
  • Web presence & hosting
  • Remote program maintenance & sysadmin
  • Information storage & processing
  • Computing power
  • Domain names & hosting
  • Automated data search & supply
  • Finding potential buyers
  • Search engine access
  • Website statistics

Not an electronic service: goods ordered online but delivered physically. A marketplace with physical goods follows different rules — see the regimes below.

The three regimes

Three regimes. Only one is yours.

The distinction nobody publishes in English — conflating them is the most expensive mistake on this page.

Electronic services VATChapter 39
This page
Trigger
Listed e-services supplied to individuals in Uzbekistan
Local entity
No local entity
Tax
12% VAT · quarterly
Permanent establishmentArt. 36
Trigger
Fixed place of business, 183+ days of services, or a dependent agent concluding contracts
Local entity
No entity — but registration and profit tax follow
Tax
15% profit tax
Marketplace rulesResolution 885
Trigger
Foreign platform operating with Uzbek users
Local entity
Local entity required
Tax
Full LLC regime

Enforcement is factual, not theoretical: non-compliant platforms have been blocked, and Wildberries settled a substantial liability. Under Resolution 885 a marketplace route ends in a local entity — that is Company incorporation.

Once registered

The whole obligation, in three numbers.

Basis: value of services including tax, by the date payment is received — converted at the CBU rate on the last day of that month.

12%
VAT rate · Art. 258
Quarterly
tax period · Art. 280
The 20th
filing + payment, month after the quarter · Art. 281

Everything files electronically through the taxpayer’s personal cabinet — which we run for you.

Questions

Questions platforms actually search.

Each answer is self-contained — it survives being read alone.

Before you register
Do I need a company in Uzbekistan to pay VAT there?
No. Chapter 39 registration is with the tax authority directly — no legal entity is formed. You apply within 30 calendar days of starting supply (Tax Code, Art. 279).
What counts as an electronic service under Uzbek tax law?
Fourteen categories in Art. 282: software and database licensing including games, e-books and publications, music and audiovisual works, internet advertising, marketplace platform services, hosting, computing power, automated data search and similar. Goods ordered online but delivered physically are not electronic services.
I only sell to businesses in Uzbekistan — do I need to register?
No. When the buyer is an Uzbek legal entity, the buyer is the tax agent and withholds the VAT. The registration obligation covers supplies to individuals (Art. 278).
How long do I have to register after I start selling?
30 calendar days from starting — or ceasing — supply (Art. 279), on the document list approved by the State Tax Committee.
Once registered
What is the VAT rate on electronic services in Uzbekistan?
12% (Tax Code, Art. 258), computed on the value of services including tax, by the date payment is received.
How often do I file, and by when?
Quarterly (Art. 280). The return is filed electronically through the taxpayer’s personal cabinet, and the tax is paid, by the 20th of the month following the quarter (Art. 281).
Which currency do I report in?
UZS — converted at the Central Bank rate on the last day of the month the payment was received.
Less common situations
What happens if I do not register?
Enforcement is real: non-compliant foreign platforms have been blocked, and Wildberries settled a substantial tax liability. Registration is cheaper than the block.
What is the difference between VAT registration and a permanent establishment?
Chapter 39 is a VAT-only regime with no entity. A permanent establishment (Art. 36) arises from a fixed place of business, 183+ days of services, or a dependent agent concluding contracts — and brings 15% profit tax. Different triggers, different taxes; this page is only about the first.
I run a marketplace selling physical goods — does this apply to me?
No — that is Resolution 885 (December 2024), which requires foreign platforms operating with Uzbek users to establish a local entity on the full LLC regime. That route is Company incorporation, and we handle it end to end.
Enquiry

Tell us what you sell.

Not a checkout — we reply with a scoped proposal within two business days. No mailing list.

Physical goods follow different rules — we will say so in the reply rather than after you pay.
Optional. When supply started, who your buyers are, whatever is on your mind.

We use this to reply to you and nothing else. See the privacy policy.

Three things let us scope it without a call:

  1. What you sell into Uzbekistan — marketplace goods, SaaS, digital content, advertising or something else
  2. Whether your buyers are individuals, Uzbek companies, or both
  3. Roughly when supply started, or when you expect it to

Start from your desk. Nothing is charged until you approve.