IT Park resident status is granted to an Uzbekistan legal entity that operates in one of the approved activities and submits an economically justified business plan. The application goes through the Directorate's web portal, review is free of charge, and the decision is made no later than 15 working days from the date the documents are accepted. Benefits start not on the decision date, but on the first day of the month following entry into the Unified Register.
Key takeaways
There are three requirements, and all of them are published: a legal entity in Uzbekistan, an activity from the approved list, and a business plan for that activity. Revenue, headcount and an office inside the technopark are irrelevant.
The list contains 23 activities. Among them are software development, implementation and support, database creation and administration, data processing, automated control systems, IT consulting and information systems audit, business process outsourcing for non-residents, cryptographic data protection, the internet of things, ICT education, multimedia and design, animation, esports, venture financing and acceleration.
From 1 April 2026 several of these lost the right to apply tax and customs benefits: payment organisations, payment system operators, marketplaces and microfinance organisations. This was set by Presidential Resolution No. PP-388 of 26.12.2025; a detailed breakdown of the changes for residents is published on Buxgalter.uz. The ban concerns the benefits themselves: the IT Park tax and customs regime no longer covers these activities.
Applications are accepted only from a registered company, so you first walk the usual route of opening a business in Uzbekistan and only then go to IT Park.
The procedure is described in the Regulation approved by Resolution No. 589. All the deadlines below come from that document, not from anecdotes.
Reviewing the application is free: there is no separate fee for resident status. The paid part comes earlier — company registration, legal address, digital signature, bank account maintenance and accounting. These are business launch costs, not status costs.
The decision date and the date benefits start are not the same. Benefits on taxes and mandatory contributions apply from the first day of the month following the month in which the company is entered into the Unified Register of residents (clause 26 of the Regulation).
Tip Count the month boundary, not the review days. A company entered into the register on the 29th starts applying benefits a whole month earlier than one entered on the 2nd of the next month, although the filing dates differ by days.
A resident's obligations are listed in clause 18 of the Regulation, and grounds for losing the status in clause 21. In practice it comes down to three things: contributions, reporting and the annual audit.
| Deadline | What to do | What a miss leads to |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly, no later than the 20th of the month following the reporting one | Transfer contributions calculated on total income to the Directorate's deposit account | Non-payment of contributions is grounds for losing the status |
| In the form and deadlines approved by the Directorate | Submit information on the company's activity through the Directorate's web portal | Failure to report or false information is grounds for losing the status |
| Annually, by 1 July of the year following the reporting one | Complete the mandatory audit of financial and economic activity and the special-issue audit | A missing audit report is grounds for losing the status |
| Continuously | Operate under the approved business plan and within the IT Park list of activities | Activity outside the list is grounds for losing the status |
The base contribution to the Directorate is 1% of total income. From 1 April 2026 it stopped being the same for everyone: under Resolution No. PP-388 the rate depends on the share of exports in income and on the size of that income.
| Resident's situation | Contribution to the Directorate | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Share of exported services and goods in annual income is 20% or more | 1% | PP-388 of 26.12.2025, changes from 01.04.2026 |
| Export threshold not met, total income below 100 billion soum | 2% | Same source |
| Export threshold not met, total income of 100 billion soum and above | 3% | Same source |
From 1 January 2027 the minimum export share rises from 20% to 35% — the next step of the same changes. For a company working only on the domestic market this means the mandatory payment doubles, so it is better planned in advance.
There is a third, more distant threshold: under Decree No. UP-157 of 14.10.2024, the extension of tax benefits from 1 January 2028 to 1 January 2040 applies only to residents whose exports exceed 50% of total income, and VAT is not part of that extension. What exactly is extended, what is not, and how to calculate the saving is covered in the article on taxes and contributions of an IT Park resident.
Individual banks sell IT Park residents special tariffs for account services. That is a product of a particular bank, not a benefit of the status, and terms differ from bank to bank — from payment order fees to the conversion rate.
Important The resident certificate does not move the company onto such a tariff. After receiving the status you file a separate application with the bank, and until then the account is served on ordinary corporate terms.
Tariffs are worth comparing against the banks' current price lists rather than a retelling: the set of free operations changes. How to approach the choice of a bank is covered in the article on opening a corporate account.
Losing the status is not a theoretical risk. In August 2024 IT Park reported that 110 companies lost resident status for failing to submit the audit report for 2023, with all tax benefits and preferences cancelled.
The full list of grounds in clause 21 is broader: activity outside the approved list, failure to meet contractual obligations, bankruptcy, voluntary withdrawal, false information in reports, non-payment of contributions, reorganisation of the legal entity, and lack of integration with tax authority information systems.
Syntra Systems is an IT company from Tashkent and an IT Park resident. We went through this route for ourselves: from registering the legal entity to the entry in the Unified Register, and we live in the same regime of contributions, reporting and annual audit as any other resident.
We do not provide legal services and do not arrange the status end to end — that is the work of lawyers and accountants. Our part starts afterwards: leads and clients in a CRM, data exchange between systems, servers and the working processes the reporting is later built on. The closest services from the technical support page are support of working systems from $700 per month and project development from $1,500 per month.
If you are still choosing a country rather than a procedure, see the review of Uzbekistan's strengths and weaknesses as an IT jurisdiction: it puts the 2026 conditions together with their limits.
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The status belongs to a company, not a person. A foreigner can be the founder and director of a legal entity registered in Uzbekistan, and that company applies on general terms. The resident requirements set no restrictions on the founder's citizenship.
No. Renting an office in the technopark is a separate service, not a condition of residency. A company can work from its own office, a coworking space or remotely: the resident requirements say nothing about the place of work.
Filing and review are free, and there is no separate state fee for the status. Money goes into the earlier steps: company registration, legal address, digital signature, bank account maintenance and accounting.
The status is not withdrawn for that, but mandatory contributions to the Directorate grow: from 1 April 2026 a resident pays 2% of total income instead of 1%, and 3% with income of 100 billion soum and above. From 1 January 2027 the minimum export share rises from 20% to 35%.
The mismatch surfaces at the mandatory annual audit, and activity outside the IT Park list is direct grounds for losing resident status under clause 21 of the Regulation. So every activity you plan to earn from goes into the business plan from the start, and only from the approved list.
There is no formal waiting period: the application is accepted as soon as the company is registered and the director has a digital signature. In practice the account is opened and an accountant hired first, because a resident has to report and transfer contributions straight away.
Its tax benefits and resident preferences. In August 2024 IT Park stripped 110 companies of their status for failing to submit a 2023 audit report, cancelling all their benefits — so it's worth putting the annual audit deadline of 1 July on the calendar from the start of the year.
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