Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Self-employment as a special tax regime was created to support entrepreneurship and legalize labor in Uzbekistan.

Currently, more than 2.6 million self-employed citizens are registered in the country, of which 284,000 registered in 2024, the Tax Committee of Uzbekistan said.

Self-employed people do not pay taxes if their income does not exceed 100 million soums. To calculate their length of service and pension, they can pay social tax on a voluntary basis.

In order to develop the passenger transport system and reduce unemployment, the list of activities available to the self-employed includes the transportation of passengers by passenger cars.

As of 1 March 2024, 420,800 self-employed taxi drivers were registered, of which 161,600 work through online aggregators integrated with tax authorities. More than 1000 of them are women.

Among the drivers using online taxi aggregators:

• 59,274 people – under 30 years of age;
• 90,420 people – from 30 to 50 years old;
• 11,970 people are over 50 years old.

In the first 2 months of 2024, drivers using online aggregators received the following income:

• up to 1 million soums – 104,241 people;
• from 1 million to 2 million soums – 24,350 people;
• from 2 million to 5 million soums – 23,817 people;
• from 5 million to 10 million soums – 7,887 people;
• from 10 million to 15 million soums – 1,180 people;
• over 15 million soums – 189 people.

Legalization of activities allows self-employed taxi drivers not only to receive legal income, but also to enjoy social guarantees.