Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a law “On state duty”.

In accordance with the Law, the state duty is a compulsive payment payable for the commission of legally significant actions and (or) the issuance of documents by authorized institutions and (or) officials.

Consular fee and patent fee also appear as a state fee.

According to the Law, state duty payers come as individuals and legal entities that apply to authorized institutions and (or) officials, and in relation to whom a legally significant action and (or) issuance of documents are performed.

The Law also defined the objects of state duty collection and the size of state duty rates.

The law approved an exhaustive list of individuals and legal entities exempted from state duty.

In particular, they are exempted from the payment of state duty in civil courts in claims for the recovery of wages, in claims for the recovery of alimony.