Register a company in Uzbekistan

Yes. Which route suits you is the first thing we settle, because the registration Regulation has two. Online, the request goes through the Single Portal and must carry the electronic digital signature of each founder who is not an Uzbek citizen; we confirm for your case how you obtain one. In person, a representative files at a Public Services Centre with an ID and a document confirming authority, such as a power of attorney.

Registration starts from $2,400. The official state duty and a legal address, if you need ours, are quoted separately. With an EMI or online bank account, from $4,300. Except for credit organisations, no capital has to be paid in before registration: each participant pays within the term the founding documents set, at most a year after registration.

The Regulation allows 30 minutes at most, in real time, once the request is filed and the duty paid. IT Park's guide for foreign founders speaks of one to two business days after submission. The slow part comes before filing: the Uzbek charter and the signatures. Our own preparation time depends on your founders, so the quote sets it.

Corporate income tax is 15%, or 20% for commercial banks, mobile operators, cement and polyethylene-granule producers, and markets and shopping malls. VAT is 12% once turnover passes 12,000 BCU. Dividends and interest paid to non-residents carry 10% withholding before treaties, and Uzbekistan has treaties in force with 55 countries. Employers pay 12% social tax on payroll, and personal income tax is a flat 12%. CIT is reported quarterly, with the annual return due by 1 March.

It depends on the margin, and we run both regimes on your numbers before you file. A company with turnover up to 12,000 BCU may opt for the turnover tax, generally at 4%, though the rate runs from 0% to 25% by type of business. At 4%, it costs less than 15% CIT whenever profit is above about 27% of turnover, on our arithmetic. Leaving it has a cushion: since 1 January 2026, a company moving to CIT for the first time pays no CIT for the following tax period, except on dividends and interest.

In general, yes. The LLC Law lets individuals and companies be participants and sets no general nationality rule, though another law can restrict certain categories of people. One participant is enough. The director must be an individual with full legal capacity; Art. 42 sets no nationality or residency condition, and IT Park's guide says a foreign national can be appointed. We check sector limits for your activity, and whether a foreign director needs a work permit, before filing. One exception is written into the Regulation: markets and trade complexes need a state body holding at least 51% of the founders' share.

No general one. Licensing requirements can set a minimum for a licensed activity, and in a credit organisation each participant pays at least 30% of its contribution before registration. Otherwise the charter sets the amount, paid in full within the term in the founding documents and no later than a year after registration. Contributions can be cash, securities, property or rights with a money value. A non-cash contribution above 10,000 BCU needs an appraisal organisation, and the participants approve its value unanimously.

In the Company + Bank Account package we open an account with an EMI or online bank remotely, once the certificate is issued. IT Park's guide notes that a corporate bank account can be opened once registration is approved. We arrange a local account on request, quoted separately, after checking the currency-control rules that apply to it. The Investment Law guarantees free transfer of foreign-currency funds into and out of Uzbekistan after taxes and fees, and repatriation of assets when an investment ends.

Paperwork in Uzbek, and signatures. Founding documents are filed in the state language, and lex.uz, the national legislation database, marks its Russian versions of laws as unofficial translations: the official text is Uzbek. Papers from Germany, Austria or Greece cannot rely on an apostille, because the Convention is not in force between those states and Uzbekistan. The signature rule bites hardest. Online, every non-citizen founder signs the request with their own electronic digital signature, so before the name is reserved we agree how you sign: online, or through a representative filing in person.

Law ZRU-1137 of 21 April 2026 replaced the 2001 law on limited and additional liability companies on 22 July 2026, and ZRU-1158 amended it from 25 July 2026. For a new company, one participant is enough, but it cannot be another one-person company unless that is a joint-stock company with a single shareholder. Above 50 participants, a company has a year to convert or a court liquidates it. There is no general minimum capital. The full name must include "masʼuliyati cheklangan jamiyat" (the short name may use "MChJ"), and a company with foreign participation may show its founders' nationality in it.