Employees across Uzbekistan have accumulated more than UZS 498.7bn ($39.8mn) in unpaid property and land taxes, according to the Tax Committee, with nearly 885,000 workers carrying outstanding liabilities linked to more than one million taxable properties.
As of July 22, 2026, the Tax Committee said 885,336 employees from 183,668 organizations owed taxes on 1,069,710 taxable properties. Total outstanding debt reached UZS 498.7bn ($39.8mn), including UZS 282.8bn ($22.6mn) in land tax and UZS 215.9bn ($17.2mn) in property tax.
Most of the debt belongs to employees of commercial organisations, who account for UZS 387.9bn ($31mn) of the total. Employees of budget-funded institutions owed UZS 90.8bn ($7.2mn), while workers at non-governmental non-profit organizations owed UZS 20bn ($1.6mn).
The organizations with the largest employee tax arrears included Uzbekistan Railways Infrastructure JSC, whose employees owed UZS 5.6bn ($447,000), Regional Electric Power Networks JSC with UZS 4.2bn ($335,000), and Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine JSC with UZS 4.1bn ($327,000).
By sector, agriculture, forestry and fisheries recorded the highest unpaid taxes. Employees of 54,746 organisations in the sector owed UZS 100.3bn ($8mn) out of UZS 177.6bn ($14.2mn) in assessed taxes.
Industrial sector employees owed UZS 77.3bn ($6.2mn), followed by trade with UZS 66.2bn ($5.3mn). Outstanding liabilities also reached UZS 50.3bn ($4mn) in construction, UZS 20.2bn ($1.6mn) in transport and storage, UZS 17.9bn ($1.4mn) in accommodation and food services, UZS 6.5bn ($519,000) in healthcare and social services, and UZS 5.3bn ($423,000) in information and communications.
Earlier this week, Uzbekistan's Compulsory Enforcement Bureau said the country's Migration Agency had yet to comply with court rulings requiring the payment of UZS 13.6bn ($1.1mn) in salary arrears, compensation, reinstatement-related payments and state duties owed to former employees.
