A new order of capital market support mechanisms is being established

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 17 January, the President signed resolution on additional measures to introduce effective mechanisms to support the capital market.

The resolution established that from 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2024:

income accrued in the form of dividends on shares of individuals - residents and non-residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan are exempt from tax;

on income accrued in the form of dividends on shares of legal entities - non-residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan, a 5 percent income tax rate is applied by analogy with legal entities - residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

income in the form of accrued interest on bonds of business entities of individuals and legal entities - residents and non-residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan are exempt from personal income tax and corporate income tax.

From 1 July 2022, a procedure is established according to which:

when making transactions with securities at organized over-the-counter trading in securities, the seller (except for the issuer) pays a fee of 0.3% of the transaction amount instead of profit tax and income tax;

when the general meeting of shareholders makes a decision to exclude the company’s shares from the exchange quotation list of the stock exchange, the shareholders - owners of the voting shares of this company are granted the right to demand the repurchase by the company of their shares.

From 1 April 2022, local issuers are granted the right, on the recommendation of the underwriter, to place their shares on foreign stock markets after a preliminary placement on the RSE "Toshkent" or place them simultaneously on local and foreign stock exchanges.

The document also introduced an amendment to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 268 from 10 May 2017 “On the organization of a public offering of shares on the stock exchange”.

The changes are as follows:

firstly, the offer price of shares through the initial (IPO) and secondary (SPO) public offerings of shares is now determined only by the organizer (previously, the price was determined by the organizer in agreement with the initiator based on the methods provided for by the rules of the stock exchange);

secondly, changes were introduced to the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 268, according to which the collection of applications for the purchase of shares sold through primary (1PO) and secondary (SPO) public offerings of shares is carried out by the organizer or a group of organizers with whom an agreement has been concluded on holding these IPO or SPO (previously, this paragraph contained a provision that in order to purchase shares by an investor, payment is made at the time of filing an application for the purchase of shares to a separate account of an investment intermediary engaged by the organizer to keep records of investors’ pre-deposited funds).

The resolution made other changes and additions.