Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- It is known that from 1 July 2020, a simplified procedure for registering self-employment has been introduced in Uzbekistan.

As a result of explanatory measures carried out by the State Tax Service, as of 22 July, the total number of self-employed citizens in the country exceeded 174,270 people.

According to the press service of the State Oil Company, Bukhara, Namangan, Navoi, Syrdarya and Samarkand regions remain the leaders.

Currently, the most popular area of 67 activities for the self-employed is household services (hairdressing, manicure, cosmetology, pedicure, washing and ironing at home, making keys, sewing shoes, repairing and painting, etc.). 47,545 people are employed in this direction.

Other directions:

Services in the field of agriculture (cattle grazing and care, assistance to owners of household plots for planting and caring for agricultural crops) - 36,712 self-employed;

Services in the industrial sphere (wooden architecture, plumbing, electrical installation, collection of waste paper, plastic, scrap metal and others) - 29 816 self-employed;

Production of consumer goods and the service sector (sale of bread, popcorn at home, ice cream, salads, soft drinks, ayran, tug and trade in agricultural products in dekhkan markets) - 28 899 self-employed;

The sphere of social services (tutoring at home, babysitting and care, housekeeping, cleaning of premises, traditional medicine, and others) - 28 646 self-employed.

ICT services (activities in social networks, development of software, mobile applications and websites, creation and processing of words) - 2 641 self-employed.

Self-employment benefits:

- income received as a result of employment is not subject to income tax;

- it is not necessary to visit the tax authorities to register as a self-employed. It is enough to download the SOLIQ application to your mobile phone;

- social tax is paid once a year (the minimum amount for 2020 is 111,500 soums);

- work experience and pension are counted;

- if the activities of self-employed persons are engaged in family businesses with at least three members, then they pay turnover tax at a rate reduced by 50%.

On the portal of electronic tax services of the State Tax Committee my.soliq.uz, you can also go through remote notification registration of a self-employed person.