The types of activities that self-employed individuals can engage in are decreasing

On March 19, a presidential decree was signed regarding "Measures to Increase the Role of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Economy".

In order to encourage the consolidation of entrepreneurial entities, starting from May 1, 2025, no state duty will be charged when self-employed individuals are registered as individual entrepreneurs or legal entities.

At the same time, starting from January 1, 2026, the list of types of activities that self-employed individuals can engage in will be reduced from the current 104 items to 72.

The following will be removed from the list:

1. Tutoring in unused rooms of state educational institutions or at home — conducting individual and group classes in educational subjects for children and adults

2. Cleaning rooms, landscaping and greening the area of individuals

3. Repairing and assembling furniture for individuals at home

4. Simple general construction and repair work for individuals (concrete pouring, painting, plastering, laying bricks and tiles, perforation, carpentry, locksmithing, and other general construction works)

5. Minor repairs of personal vehicles, installing accessories and car alarms, repairing covers and floor coverings

6. Collecting waste paper, plastic containers, scrap metal, and other raw materials

7. Wooden architecture (wooden structures and sculptures for children's playgrounds and park areas)

8. Metal repair works (repairing household metal items at home (making duplicates of keys, repairing umbrellas, simple repairs of other household metal items)

9. Preparing and selling popcorn and ice cream at home

10. Retail trade in agricultural products at farmers' markets

11. Retail trade in newspapers, magazines, and books

12. Hairdressing services, manicure, and pedicure services

13. Cosmetology services and other similar services

14. Laundry and ironing services at home

15. Repairing sewing, fur, leather, and knitted items, hats, and sewing and knitting items based on individual orders

16. Printing patterns on fabrics (hand-painting fabrics and clothing items, applying images to fabrics using stencils and hand-drawing methods)

17. Sewing and repairing window and door curtains, embroidery

18. Preparing and repairing haberdashery items

19. Preparing and repairing jewelry and trinkets

20. Preparing wreaths (including funeral wreaths), artificial flowers, ikebana, and flower garlands

21. Preparing and repairing barriers, sculptures, and metal wreaths

22. Breeding and selling aquarium fish, decorative birds, and other animals

23. Video and photography services

24. Preparing and selling national sweets and confectionery products at home without using packaging equipment

25. Preparing and selling salads and pickles, as well as certain types of food sold in bulk at home without organizing seating areas or selling in specially designated areas allocated by local government authorities

26. Preparing and selling cool drinks, ayran, and kurt for sale at home

27. Organizing and conducting circles

28. Growing and selling flowers and decorative trees (including bonsai art)

29. Distributing advertising brochures, accepting orders at home by operators

30. Binding works

31. Services of guides (guides-interpreters), excursion leaders, and tour guides

32. Creating and processing texts (copywriter, rewriter, SEO-copywriter, SEO-rewriter, proofreader, content manager, editor, specialist in sending emails, speechwriter, transcriber, and others)

33. Providing realtor services (assisting in finding rental housing as well as purchasing housing)

34. Collecting agricultural products in neighborhoods and selling them only to local exporting enterprises

Starting from January 1, 2026, the following will be added to the list:

• retail trade in goods and services on electronic trading platforms;
  
• preservation and use of intangible cultural heritage objects (dorboz, askiya, and lapar) (excluding individuals operating within cultural centers);
  
• raising and breeding domestic chickens at home.
  

Thus, the list of self-employed individuals will be as follows starting next year:

1. Services provided to individuals for babysitting and caring for children

2. Organizing and operating family children's homes

3. Services provided to individuals for caring for patients and elderly individuals who require constant care

4. Managing household chores and performing household tasks, including cleaning residences and cooking

5. Minor repairs and installation of plumbing equipment for individuals

6. Providing electrical installation services within apartments (in personal construction work — inside the house) for individuals (with permission for electrical safety)

7. Land cultivation and reclamation work on household plots and private gardens

8. Agricultural work for farmers, silk production, and sericulture organizations based on orders (cultivating agricultural plants, caring for silkworms and animals, harvesting agricultural crops, planting mulberry seedlings, and other agricultural work)

9. Landscaping work on citizens' yard and garden plots

10. Assisting farmers and garden plot owners in planting and caring for agricultural plants, as well as harvesting agricultural crops

11. Grazing livestock, caring for them, including breeding, lambing, shearing, and collecting rough fodder

12. Providing computer repair and setup services for individuals, installing licensed software

13. Installing and repairing household appliances at the client's home

14. Washing cars and polishing car bodies for individuals

15. Loading and unloading work performed at home without using mechanization tools

16. Folk medicine (when licensed)

17. Providing head servant and concierge services to private individuals

18. Delivering goods based on orders (excluding freight transportation)

19. Transporting small loads in carts at markets and trade complexes

20. Buying and selling used goods

21. Repairing bicycles

22. Painting

23. Sewing shoes, repairing shoes, dyeing, and cleaning based on individual orders

24. Making keys

25. Producing and renting measuring instruments

26. Sharpening cutting tools and instruments

27. Repairing and tuning musical instruments

28. Preparing and selling national bread and pastries

29. Inflating balloons (taxidermy work)

30. Demonstrating clothing models at shows, appearing in illustrated magazines, advertising films, and video clips

31. Creating and processing multimedia, design, and art materials (web designer, graphic designer, computer game designer, interior designer, landscape designer, clothing designer, retoucher, photo collagist, vector graphics editor, architect, visual designer, information designer, interface designer, technical designer, motion designer, banner maker, publishing designer, flasher, 3D designer, video editor, videographer, composer, sound director, arranger, announcer, photo editor, and others)

32. Developing and providing technical support for software, information systems, mobile applications, and websites (developer, software testing specialist, web page layout specialist, web analyst, website optimization specialist)

33. Conducting retail sales of goods (works, services) on electronic trading platforms

34. Activities on social networks (PR manager, internet marketer, promoting and advertising goods (works, services) on social networks (SMM), social media page administrator, account manager, marketer, link manager, targetologist, contextual advertising specialist, director, media planner, SMO specialist)

35. Activities in the field of personnel selection (manager working with internet projects, leader of a group of freelancers, HR manager, recruiter, personal assistant)

36. Providing online consultations (online consultant, online trainer, financial advisor, webinar host)

37. Preservation and use of intangible cultural heritage objects (dorboz, askiya, and lapar) (excluding individuals operating within cultural centers)

38. Raising and breeding domestic chickens at home

39. Nursing work

40. Brokerage services in markets for pets (cattle, sheep, goats, horses, etc.)

41. Brokerage services in automobile markets

42. Processing and selling milk and dairy products at home

43. Making items from plaster and clay (making home furnishings, sculptures of fairy tale characters)

44. Preparing memorial, souvenir, and decorative items from stone and stone products

45. Weaving baskets, special containers for bread products, and other items from wooden products

46. Growing silk at home, cultivating mulberry fruits, seedlings, and cuttings in personal garden plots, weaving and selling silk fabric and silk carpets at home

47. Pottery

48. Cyber sports activities

49. Activities of athletes awarded the "Ministry of Sports of the Republic of Uzbekistan Scholarship"

50. Collecting and preparing leather raw materials

51. Collecting and preparing wool

52. Sewing clothes and other products from recycled wool

53. Making clay ovens at home

54. Weaving atlas and adras

55. Beading

56. Preparing do'ppido'z products at home

57. Preparing blacksmith products at home

58. Beekeeping, as well as making beehives and frames

59. Sewing dresses, blankets, and quilts using the dry method

60. Collecting, growing, and selling mushrooms at home

61. Making, sharpening, and selling knives

62. Preparing boxes and banners from paper

63. Growing greenhouse products at home

64. Attaching labels to finished products

65. Producing children's toys at home

66. Growing and preparing brooms at home

67. Making flat-soled children's shoes

68. Making national jewelry

69. Preparing candlestick and miskar items at home

70. Making coarse wool carpets, blankets, and pillows

71. Collecting and delivering Artemia cysts

72. Transporting passengers in light vehicles within the city, suburbs, and intercity (when licensed)