juris.hq
ComplianceUpdated 07.09.2026

Does a past insolvency stop me founding a company in Uzbekistan?

Short answer

For three years, if you founded or headed the insolvent business — unless the written-off tax debt was paid.

3 yearsThe bar runs from the termination of the insolvent business (Registration Regulation, Para. 40 — lex.uz ↗)
WhoThe person who founded it or was under whose leadership it stood (Registration Regulation, Para. 40 — lex.uz ↗)
Which roleIt disqualifies them as head of the management body — the bar is written against the director, not the shareholder as such (Registration Regulation, Para. 40 — lex.uz ↗)
The curePaying the written-off tax debt lifts it — the act carves out that case in terms (Registration Regulation, Para. 40 — lex.uz ↗)
Found howThrough the tax and economic-crime systems (Registration Regulation, Para. 40¹ — lex.uz ↗)
What the law provides

The regulation disqualifies from heading a business entity’s management body a person where less than three years have passed since the termination, on insolvency proceedings, of a business entity they previously founded or which stood under their leadership — with an express exception where the tax debt that was written off has since been paid. The bar is time-limited and curable, and it is written against the role of director rather than against holding shares. (Registration Regulation, Para. 40 — lex.uz ↗)

Whether an insolvency outside Uzbekistan engages the provision is not something the act addresses, and the mechanism suggests the practical answer: the circumstances are established through the tax and economic-crime information systems, which hold Uzbek proceedings. A founder with a foreign insolvency behind them is nonetheless better served by raising it before appointing themselves director than by discovering the position at the filing. (Registration Regulation, Para. 40¹ — lex.uz ↗)

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