Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Self-employment is a new format for employment of citizens. Allows you to legally work for yourself and accumulate work experience.

For the convenience of registration, you can use the Soliq mobile application, where a self-employed person’s personal account is created. Also, remote registration is available on the Portal of electronic government services of tax authorities. Social tax (the minimum amount for 2020 is 111,500 soums), which is paid by self-employed citizens, is sent to the off-budget Pension Fund for calculating pensions and seniority.

The next stage is the choice of activity. Self-employed persons, according to the law, can engage in any (not necessarily one) of the available 67 types of activities.

According to the press service of the State Tax Committee, as of 18 August, the number of self-employed persons in Uzbekistan increased to 264,336 people.

The sphere of personal services, which includes hairdressing, manicure, cosmetology, pedicure, washing and ironing at home, making keys, sewing shoes, repairing and painting clothes and others, remains the most in demand among the population - 74,229 self-employed persons.

In the sphere of rendering services in agriculture - grazing and care, assistance to owners of household plots in planting and caring for agricultural crops and other services - 55 823 self-employed persons were registered;

Wooden architecture, plumbing, electrical installation, collection of waste paper, plastic, scrap metal and other types of industrial services are of interest to 45 621 self-employed;

There are 44,468 self-employed persons in home tutoring, childcare and care, housekeeping, cleaning, traditional medicine and similar social services;

In the production of consumer goods and the services sector, such as the sale of bread, popcorn at home, ice cream, salads, soft drinks, ayran, gouzhi and trade in agricultural products in dekhkan markets, 39,998 self-employed are registered.

Social media activities, software development, mobile applications and websites, word processing and processing and other ICT services are preferred by 4,179 self-employed persons.

Regional figures:

Samarkand region - 36 610;

Tashkent city - 29 854;

Namangan region - 27 463;

Ferghana region - 22 836

Bukhara region - 22 832;

Andijan region - 22 445;

Kashkadarya region - 18 452;

Tashkent region - 17 319;

Surkhandarya region - 16 053;

Khorezm region - 12 386;

Republic of Karakalpakstan - 11 937;

Jizzakh region - 9 699;

Syrdarya region - 8 633;

Navoi region - 7 817;