Tajikistan

Starting a Business in

Tajikistan

Listed below is a detailed summary of the bureaucratic and legal hurdles an entrepreneur must overcome in order to incorporate and register a new firm, along with their associated time and set-up costs.  It examines the procedures, time and cost involved in launching a commercial or industrial firm with up to 50 employees and start-up capital of 10 times the economy's per-capita gross national income (GNI).

The information appearing on this page was collected as part of the Doing Business project, which measures and compares regulations relevant to the life cycle of a small- to medium-sized domestic business in 183 economies. The most recent round of data collection for the project was completed in June 2011.

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  • Legal Form: Private Limited Liability Company
  • City: Dushanbe

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No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 Pay and obtain receipt confirming the payment of the registration fee

An ATM has been installed inside the registration center. At this ATM it is possible to pay the registration fee. The ATM prints out a receipt that needs to be submitted to the one stop shop desk confirming the payment.
1 day inlcuded in procedure 4
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)

In accordance with Article 5 of the Law of RT #508 "On State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs" dated May 19, 2009 the Tax aurthority is responsible for registration of legal entites.
The following documents should be submitted for registration:
1. Application form for state registration of legal entity based. Following information should be indicated in the application:
- organizational and legal form of a legal entity;
- full (as well as abbreviated if available) company name of a legal entity in state language of the Republic of Tajikistan;
- location (address) of a legal entity;
- way of establishment of a legal entity (creation or reorganization);
- information about founder (founders) and the Head of a legal entity (name of legal entity, full name of the person, the location of the legal entity and person, contact information);
- main type (types) of activity which a legal entity is intended to perform in order to issue the statistical codes;
- date of submission of application and signature of applicant;
2. Resolution of founders (minutes of founders meeting) on establishment of legal entity. Resolution on establishment of legal entity shall be signed by the founder (founders) of legal entities;
3. Copy of passport (ID paper) of CEO of legal entity;
4. Receipt on payment of registration fees

In accordance with Article 10 of Law of RT 3508 the registration should be completed within five working days from the moment of submission of documents. Since the amendments to the Law of the Republic of Tajikistan "On State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs", upon registration, entrepreneurs obtain a single registration number, a TIN, a statistic code and the SIN (Social Protection and Pension number).

The Law on State Duties has been amended in January 2011 specifiying that the State duty is equal to 25 calculation indices. From January 1, 2010 one Indicator for calculations = TJS 40. Total: 25x40=1000 (state duty)+ 80 (for the extract summarizing information about the registered entity).



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

All legal entities are registered with the Statistics Committee. Applicant submits all information at the one stop shop at the time of company registration and the one stop shop transfers the information to the Statistics Committee. However, the applicant still needs to visit the Statistics Comittee to obtain the statistics code. The company receives a registration card with the designated statistics code (the Republic Enterprise and Organization Code, or OKPO statistical code) of the General Classification of Enterprises and Organizations. This code is necessary for opening bank settlement and other accounts.

Registration with the statistics authorities aims to provide reliable information about existing legal entities in the Republic of Tajikistan for the use of the state organs in conducting analysis, social and economic forecasts, scientific inquiry, and commercial activity. The statistics authorities assign companies various statistical codes.
1 day no charge
4 Register with the Agency for Social Protection and Pension and obtain SIN

Once a business is registered with the “one stop shop” it has to obtain a SIN at the Agency for Social Protection and Pension. Legal entities must register with the Social Fund within 30 days of state registration.
14 days no charge
5 Make a company seal


3 days TJS 70
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