The Anti-Corruption Agency has conducted an analysis of tax and customs exemptions utilized in 2025, based on data provided by the Tax and Customs Committees.
In the past year, the total value of these exemptions reached 178.1 trillion soums (compared to 127.1 trillion in 2023 and 63.4 trillion in the first half of 2024). Effectively, this massive sum remained at the disposal of various enterprises and organizations rather than entering the state budget. Of this total, tax exemptions accounted for 119 trillion soums, while customs waivers made up 59.1 trillion soums.
Excluding the major state mining giants (Navoi and Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combinates) and commercial banks, Uzbekistan GTL emerged as the largest beneficiary, receiving 2.8 trillion soums in tax breaks. Rounding out the top five were Uzbekistan Airways (2.4 trillion), Uzbekneftegaz (1.7 trillion), Uzbekistan Railways (1.1 trillion), and UzAuto Motors (899 billion).
On the customs side, UzGasTrade -the sole entity responsible for the centralized purchase and sale of natural gas - claimed the highest volume of exemptions at 2.1 trillion soums. Other significant beneficiaries included RWS Optimum, a manufacturer of reinforced concrete sleepers for railway tracks (1.4 trillion), and Enter Engineering’s Karauzak Thermal Power Plant (1.1 trillion). Notably, four out of the five organizations that most consistently utilized customs exemptions are entities linked to Enter Engineering, collectively benefiting from over 1.8 trillion soums in waivers.
Additionally, throughout 2025, substantial tax breaks were granted to Asia Trans Gas, the operator of the Uzbekistan segment of the Central Asia–China gas pipeline (860 billion soums), the logistics firm My Freighter (660 billion), and the Humo payment system (542 billion). Meanwhile, the construction company Trest 12 and Gorilla Energy LLC benefited from customs exemptions worth 519 billion and 414 billion soums, respectively.
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