Uzbekistan okays changes to double taxation avoidance deal with Pakistan
A protocol on changes to the Uzbekistan-Pakistan agreement on double taxation avoidance and prevention of income tax evasion has been approved upon the Uzbek President Islam Karimov’s decree.
The presidential decree was disseminated by the Uzbek media Feb. 15.
Under the decree, the country’s foreign ministry was tasked to send a notification about the fulfillment of inter-state procedures by Uzbekistan necessary for the agreement to come into force.
The Cabinet of Ministers, as well as the relevant ministries and agencies were instructed to ensure control over Uzbekistan’s meeting its commitments as it was prescribed.
The protocol on changes to the Uzbekistan-Pakistan intergovernmental agreement on the double taxation avoidance and prevention of income tax evasion, dated 1995, was signed during Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif’s official visit to Uzbekistan in November 2015.
