The article talks about which organizations have the right to be residents of the IT Park and to use its benefits.
Membership in the IT Park, established for the purpose of developing IT companies in Uzbekistan, and their comprehensive support provide organizations with a number of benefits for development.
The article discusses topics such as which companies can get the status of IT Park residents, what areas residents are allowed to work in, and what opportunities IT Park membership provides.
What are the requirements for obtaining the status of Technopark resident?
In order to be admitted to the IT Park residency, an IT organization must meet the following requirements:
- They must be state-registered as a legal entity in the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
- They must engage in the type or types of activity specified in Appendix 2 of the regulation approved by this resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers (you can get acquainted with the types of activity below);
- It is necessary to have an economically based business plan for the types of activities mentioned above.
Organizations must apply for IT Park membership through this link.
Organizations that are members of the IT Park can rent an office by submitting an application through this link.
In which directions can Technopark residents work?
Familiarize yourself with the types of activities allowed to be carried out by the residents of the technological park of software products and information technologies:
- Development, design, and sale of software, including computer games, for any platform (including licensing of software and granting or presenting exclusive rights to software), Implementation, support, and service of individual steps in the implementation of software, including training services for working with this software (training).
Improvement and modification of the software product. - The creation of databases, the development of information systems and software, the preparation of records for these databases in the prescribed form, and the provision of access to them, support, and service.
- Data processing activities using software.
- Provide advertising space in its software or otherwise generate additional revenue by using features of the software.
- Data processing activities using software.
- Providing advertising space in its software or otherwise generate additional revenue by using features of the software.
- Development and implementation of an automated management system.
- Analysis of the information needs of legal entities (system analysis, business analysis) and development of technical requirements for the introduction of information systems and software for the purpose of innovation (reengineering) of business processes and providing advice on the use of information technologies.
- Auditing compliance with the information needs and technical requirements of users during the development, implementation, and commissioning of information systems and software.
- Providing automated services for searching, selecting, processing, and sorting data and providing information to third parties in the software developed by the technopark resident.
- Providing services to non-residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan in auxiliary production, administrative, and business process management (implementation) using software and hardware tools (business process outsourcing).
- Sale of materials, technologies, micro-, opto-, and nanoelectronics, micro-electrotechnical systems, and software compatible with them, developed by a resident of Technopark.
- Development (research, design (construction), testing, and technical testing) of data transmission systems, technologies, devices, and radar systems; radio navigation; radio communication; radio control; radio frequency identification equipment; and production of the results of such developments or selling services without actually providing those services.
- Individual stages (research, design, prototyping, testing) of the development or production of high-tech devices and systems, hardware and software tools and software compatible with them transfer, and the sale of manufactured products and (or) the provision of services for the acquisition of production results or sale without provision of services.
- Information protection activities using technical and/or cryptographic means, including electronic digital signatures.
- Activities related to the development, implementation, and sale of the concept of a computer-communication network of physical objects equipped with installed technologies to communicate with each other and with the external environment.
- In accordance with the program approved by the Technopark Directorate, educational activities in the field of information technologies, including through the Internet global information network.
- Export of information services through the Internet global information network.
- Services in the field of multimedia and design (web design, graphic design, computer game design, vector graphics, 3D graphics, visualization design, interface design, technical design, motion design).
- Production of multiplication products using software.
- Activities of venture financing of projects in the field of information technologies and implementation of acceleration programs.
- Providing services in the field of e-sports.
What rights do residents have?
Residents of the IT Park have a number of privileges and rights, the most important of which are the following:
- Use of tax credits on income;
- Use of the Technopark trademark under the condition of using the “IT Park Resident” symbol;
- Attracting foreign specialists without obtaining certificates of the right to work in the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
- Reducing the amount of monthly allocations to the Directorate up to 50 percent when the volume of exported goods or services exceeds a certain amount in the current reporting calendar year.
What are the responsibilities of IT Park residents?
Companies that are IT Park residents are expected to comply with a number of simple requirements. Get to know the most important of them:
- Working according to the list of approved activities.
- Submitting a report on its activities once every quarter.
- Every month, no later than the 20th day of the month following the reporting period, make a payment in the amount of one percent of the total income to the demand deposit account of the Directorate.
- Conducting an audit once a year and sending a copy of the conclusion to the IT Park.
If companies are found not to follow these rules, they will be deprived of IT Park residency status.
What rights and obligations does IT Park have?
Some of the main rights of the directorate are:
- Obtaining information from the resident about his activities, including copies of statistics and tax reports;
- Organization of promotion of new products of the resident in domestic and foreign markets;
- Receiving residents’ tax reports from tax authorities;
- Provision of additional services to the resident on the basis of separately concluded agreements within the scope of his authority;
Some of the key responsibilities of the Directorate are:
- Issuance of a certificate of registration as a resident of the technopark to the residents;
- Sending an official notification to the State Tax Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the State Customs Committee, to the commercial bank that provides services to the legal entity, that the legal entity is registered as a resident of the Technopark.
You can see the complete list with the rights and obligations of residents and the directorate through this link.
Source: IT Park official website