Uzbekistan registers TikTok as a taxpayer despite blocking

Uzbekistan has registered TikTok with the tax committee, despite the blocking of its service in the Republic since the summer of 2021.

From now on, 12% VAT will be included in the payment for the service, making it the 55th foreign company registered with the tax authorities in Uzbekistan.

Since July 2021, “TikTok” has been in the register of violators of the law ‘On Personal Data’, which requires the placement of servers on which the personal data of citizens of Uzbekistan is processed within the country.

Twitter, VKontakte, and WeChat also violators of the law “On Personal Data,” but in August 2022, they were removed from the list, leaving only TikTok.

In March 2022, Uzbekistan’s Minister of Digital Technologies Sherzod Shermatov held an online meeting with TikTok Vice President Theo Bertramo and discussed ‘issues of ensuring the security of personal information of platform users in Uzbekistan and complying with the requirements of the law’ of Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Culture in 2021 called the TikTok app ‘harmful,’ and two parties called for it to be banned in the country.