In Uzbekistan, the government confirmed recently announced changes to the country’s corporate income tax and VAT regimes in the 2020 Budget.

In line with an earlier announcement, the Budget included a cut to the VAT rate to 15 percent from 20 percent effective from October 1, 2019. The Budget also confirmed the Government’s plans to remove the flat rate VAT scheme for certain medium-sized enterprises.

Further, the Budget provided for an increase to the headline corporate tax rate from 12 percent to 15 percent.

Other measures included a reduction in the single social payment from 25 to 12 percent for state enterprises, and legal entities in which the state owns at least 50 percent of its authorized capital, and the introduction of a new tax system for individual entrepreneurs, who will newly pay a fixed tax rate based on their actual income.

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