Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — Due to a technical glitch in the database of the Tax Committee, funds were erroneously debited from 30,100 taxpayers, totaling 399.3 billion soums, the Tax Committee of Uzbekistan reports.

The erroneous debits affected various amounts: up to 100,000 soums for 7,203 taxpayers, from 100,000 to 1 million soums for 10,165 taxpayers, from 1 million to 10 million soums for 8,270 taxpayers, from 10 million to 100 million soums for 3,780 taxpayers, from 100 million to 1 billion soums for 672 taxpayers, and over 1 billion soums for 10 taxpayers.

Tax authorities assured that all necessary measures to return the funds would be completed by the end of the day.

Relevant instructions have already been sent to the Treasury, and the refunds are being processed automatically, without the need for written requests.

At the same time, cash collection orders that had not yet been executed by commercial banks were recalled.

As of 6:00 p.m., 274.7 billion soums had already been returned to 20,608 taxpayers, the committee noted.