Tajikistan

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Tajikistan

This page summarizes Doing Business 2013 data for Tajikistan. The first table lists the overall "Ease of Doing Business" rank (out of 185 economies) and the rankings by each topic. It also lists the economy's distance to frontier (DTF)** measure. The rest of the tables summarize the key indicators for each topic and benchmark against regional and high-income economy (OECD) averages.

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Economy Summary
Starting a Business
Dealing with Construction Permits
Getting Electricity
Registering Property
Getting Credit
Protecting Investors
Paying Taxes
Trading Across Borders
Enforcing Contracts
Resolving Insolvency
Region Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Income Category Low income
Population 6,976,958
GNI Per Capita (US$) 870
Doing Business 2013 Rank Doing Business 2012 Rank Change in Rank
141 147 down 6

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points) Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points) Improvement in DTF** (% points)
46.5 45.1 down 1.4
Topic Rankings DB 2013 Rank DB 2012 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 77 70 up -7
Dealing with Construction Permits 180 179 up -1
Getting Electricity 181 180 up -1
Registering Property 82 90 up 8
Getting Credit 180 180 No change
Protecting Investors 25 66 up 41
Paying Taxes 175 170 up -5
Trading Across Borders 184 184 No change
Enforcing Contracts 43 43 No change
Resolving Insolvency 79 71 up -8

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The challenges of launching a business are shown below. Included are: the number of steps entrepreneurs can expect to go through to launch, the time it takes on average, and the cost and minimum capital required as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) per capita.

DB 2013 Rank 77 DB 2012 Rank 70 Change in Rank down-7
DB 2013 DTF** (% points) 84.8 DB 2012 DTF** (% points) 84.1 Improvement in DTF** (% points) up0.7
Indicator Tajikistan Eastern Europe & Central Asia OECD

The total number of procedures required to register a firm. A procedure is defined as any interaction of the company founders with external parties (for example, government agencies, lawyers, auditors or notaries).

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5 6 5

The total number of days required to register a firm. The measure captures the median duration that incorporation lawyers indicate is necessary to complete a procedure with minimum follow-up with government agencies and no extra payments.

View methodology Time (days)
24 14 12

Cost is recorded as a percentage of the economy’s income per capita. It includes all official fees and fees for legal or professional services if such services are required by law.

View methodology Cost (% of income per capita)
27.1 6.8 4.5

The amount that the entrepreneur needs to deposit in a bank or with a notary before registration and up to 3 months following incorporation and is recorded as a percentage of the economy’s income per capita.

View methodology Paid-in Min. Capital (% of income per capita)
0.0 5.0 13.3
No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 Pay and obtain receipt confirming the payment of the registration fee 1 day inlcuded in procedure 2
2 Register the company with the State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Enterpreneurs (“one stop shop”) and obtain state registration certificate and Tax Identification Number (TIN) 5 days TJS 1000 State duty + TJS 80 (fee for the extract summarizing information about the registered entity)
3 Obtain statistics code at the Statistics Committee 1 day no charge
4 Register with the Agency for Social Protection and Pension and obtain SIN 14 days no charge
5 Make a company seal 3 days TJS 70

** The distance to frontier (DTF) measure shows the distance of each economy to the "frontier," which represents the highest performance observed on each of the indicators across all economies included in Doing Business since each indicator was included in Doing Business. An economy’s distance to frontier is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance and 100 the frontier. Read more...

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