Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Tax Committee actively continues to legalize the sector of passenger transportation services in Uzbekistan. This was reported by the committee’s press service.

The work that began towards the end of last year to legalize the taxi service sector and keep records of income and turnover in this market, by legitimizing the activities of officially unemployed persons, has yielded the first results.

The market leader in Uzbekistan, the Yandex Go service, which has localized its activities since December 2023, has become a tax resident.

Today, the largest market participants are integrated with the information systems of the Tax Committee. This allows you to create fiscal receipts for taxi services provided through these aggregators.

This also leads to the formation of an official source of income for self-employed citizens providing passenger transportation services. Information about these incomes is now taken into account in economic activities such as length of service, mortgages, consumer loans and installment payments for goods.

In December, 4.4 million trips were made through online taxi aggregators, providing labor for 80.1 thousand self-employed drivers. The number of trips increased in January to 5 million, and transportation services were provided by 113.5 thousand self-employed drivers.

These numbers continued to rise in February. By 1 March 2024, the total number of taxi services provided exceeded 18.3 million. Of these, 8.9 million were in February. Persons with the highest turnover amounted to 8,446 people, accounting for an average of 8.5 million soums per driver.

The fiscalization of payments for cash and non-cash payments contributed 9.7 billion soums of taxes to the budget for December-February.

However, in this direction there remain some issues that need to be addressed, such as the integration of the systems of local and foreign online aggregators, the legalization of the activities of legal entities and individuals that do not fully comply with the law, and the collection of proposals for the preparation of draft regulatory documents.