Foreign IT companies pay 232.8 billion soums in taxes in 9 months of 2026

A year earlier, in the same nine months, such companies remitted 124.8 billion soums, meaning revenues grew by 86.5%. The value of electronic services provided by foreign firms in the country over this period increased from 1.04 trillion to 1.94 trillion soums, or by 85.2%.

The number of foreign digital services registered as taxpayers is also growing. There were 63 on January 1, 2025, 78 on January 1, 2026, and 109 by October 2026.

Apple paid the most, at 54.2 billion soums. Google ranked second with 52.6 billion, and Meta was third with 46.7 billion. Valve Corp. followed with 22.8 billion soums, Anthropic with 14 billion, OpenAI with 10 billion, Midasbuy with 4.8 billion, Booking.com with 4.2 billion, TikTok with 2.4 billion, and Anysphere rounded out the top ten with 2.2 billion.

As calculated by Spot.uz, the lineup of the top ten did not change compared to the results of the first half of the year, but some companies swapped places. Anthropic moved up from sixth to fifth place, increasing its payments from 6.3 billion to 14 billion soums, while OpenAI dropped to sixth place, even though its payments grew from 5.6 billion to 10 billion soums. TikTok climbed from tenth to ninth position, and Anysphere slipped to tenth.