Register a company in Kazakhstan, the crossroads economy.

Yes - the TOO registers by power of attorney through eGov, and tax numbers issue remotely. Banks increasingly onboard with a video KYC or a single visit; AIFC entities are the most remote-friendly of all. We sequence around your travel.

Turnkey TOO registration starts from $2,900 including state fees and the first-year address; with banking from $4,900. Astana Hub membership adds from $1,500; AIFC incorporation is scoped per case. Renewals with accounting run from $1,500 a year.

A jurisdiction inside a jurisdiction: the Astana International Financial Centre runs on English common law, with its own court led by senior English judges, its own regulator (AFSA), no currency controls, and 0% corporate tax for qualifying financial-sector participants on a statutory horizon to 2066. For funds, fintech and advisory work wanting Central Asian reach with Anglo-Saxon process, it is the region's most serious offer - and licensed activities go through AFSA properly.

Membership in the international tech park exempts qualifying IT businesses from corporate tax, VAT and social tax - roughly zero on the operating stack - with no requirement to sit in a physical park. Eligibility turns on genuinely technological activity and registration through the Hub's vetting; we prepare the application and keep the membership defensible, because losing it re-prices the whole company.

Corporate tax 20%, VAT 16% under the new code (raised from 12% - plan with the new number), dividends out at 15% before treaties, and simplified regimes around 3% of turnover for small businesses. Payroll carries social taxes our accountants automate. The regime decision moves you between 20% and roughly zero, which is why it comes first.

In an ordinary TOO - yes, with narrow exemptions, and we say so up front rather than after registration. AIFC entities and several Astana Hub structures are exempt, EAEU citizens work freely, and the Business Immigrant track (C5) solves founder-directors. The director question is solved in the first consultation, not discovered at the bank.

Customs-free goods movement across Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Belarus and Russia - a 190-million-person market entered from the union's most internationally comfortable member. Services and licensing stay national, and we plan the difference explicitly.

Domestically excellent - Kazakh banking is Kaspi-era digital, and accounts open in weeks. Cross-border, Western correspondent banks read Central Asian flows with attention: clean contracts, transparent counterparties and no re-export games keep a Kazakh company welcome in dollar and euro clearing. We structure documentation so compliance officers relax rather than escalate.

It floats with oil and regional weather, and it devalues in bad years - we plan for that rather than around it: multi-currency accounts from day one, dollar or euro invoicing where counterparties allow, and tenge kept as the operating float. The islands help here too - AIFC entities run without currency-control friction.

The TOO: days to register, one to two weeks to fully live with tax numbers and address. Banking: one to three weeks. Astana Hub membership: two to six weeks; AIFC incorporation and licensing: its own calendared track. A working, banked Kazakh operation inside a month is the realistic default.