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Starting a companyUpdated 07.09.2026

Why was my company’s Uzbek address rejected?

Short answer

Because the address must already exist in the tax and cadastre databases — an address the state cannot find is a refusal ground.

The groundAddress information absent from the tax and cadastre authorities’ databases — stated in the founding documents but not found in the state’s records (Registration Regulation, Para. 40 — lex.uz ↗)
Closed listIt sits among the enumerated grounds — so it is a lawful refusal, and one an applicant can cure (Registration Regulation, Paras. 40, 46 — lex.uz ↗)
On the recordThe address goes into the public register — the register’s content list holds the company’s location (State Register Regulation, Para. 5 — lex.uz ↗)
Two optionsThe founder’s own address, or another — the application form offers the founder’s address or a separate one, entered from the state address directory (Registration Regulation, Para. 9 — lex.uz ↗)
LaterChanging it is a ten-day obligation — from the moment the address changes (Registration Regulation, Para. 21 — lex.uz ↗)
What the law provides

Uzbekistan does not take an address on trust. Among the enumerated grounds of refusal is the absence, from the databases of the tax and cadastre authorities, of the address information the business entity gave in its founding documents. The registrar is not judging whether the premises are suitable; it is checking whether the address exists as a record the state already holds. An address that does exist there passes; one that does not is refused, however real the building is. (Registration Regulation, Para. 40 — lex.uz ↗)

This is why an address for an Uzbek company is a document question rather than a property question. What makes an address findable in those databases — the cadastre record behind it, and what a landlord must therefore be able to produce — is practice the act does not describe, and it is the single most common reason a first filing by a foreign founder comes back. The application form itself offers only two shapes: the address of a founder, identified by that founder’s tax number, or another address chosen from the state’s address directory. (Registration Regulation, Para. 9 — lex.uz ↗)

An address that passes both checks

Real, cadastre-registered premises the registry accepts and the bank verifies.

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