ASTANA, Kazakhstan, April 12. Kazakhstan will block foreign marketplaces that fail to register conditionally, said Deputy Minister of Finance of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Birzhanov, Trend reports.
"Regarding foreign marketplaces: if they do not register conditionally with us, we will block them. This requirement is also included in the new Tax Code," Birzhanov said during a discussion of the Public Chamber on the draft Tax Code.
He explained that the Ministry of Finance is raising the
threshold for platform-based employment and allowing individuals
involved in platform work to meet their obligations to operators
like Yandex and Glovo without the need to register.
"They pay 4 percent, with no taxes involved - 100 percent of the 4
percent goes to social payments. In other words, there’s no need to
register as an individual entrepreneur. This system remains in
place, and we will continue to develop it. Moreover, under the new
Tax Code, there is a provision requiring marketplaces to disclose
data on entities conducting trade through their platforms so we can
cross-check this information with individual entrepreneurs,
ensuring full transparency," Birzhanov added.
On February 26, members of the Majilis from the "Aq Zhol" faction proposed introducing VAT for foreign marketplaces, including Temu, Amazon, and AliExpress. According to the lawmakers, "due to the evasion of VAT on foreign marketplace transactions, the budget lost over 60 billion tenge (approximately $114,000) in 2023, not to mention the lost individual income tax from jobs in production."
