Dear Taxpayers of the Republic of Kazakhstan,

Please be reminded that deadlines for the payment of below listed taxes and payments expire in March 2023 on the following dates:

06 March 2023:

• Personal Income Tax (PIT) on income of persons engaged in private practice (private notaries, private bailiffs, lawyers, professional mediators) received in February 2023.

20 March 2023:

• Value-Added Tax (VAT) on booked goods imported to the Republic of Kazakhstan (RoK) from the Euro-Asian Economic Union (EAEU) in February 2023, and in cases when the parties to the agreement (contract) in February 2023 increase the prices for goods imported to the RoK from EAEU;
• Excise tax for the legal entity itself and its structural units (if any) for February 2023, in particular, in respect of goods imported to the RoK from EAEU in February 2023;
• Levy for negative impact on the environment (for payers – operators of I and II category objects with total annual payments not exceeding 100 MRI if the annual quota (limit) was redeemed and if the permit was obtained not later than 20 March 2023);

24 March 2023:

• PIT to be transferred by a tax agent by the 25th of the month following the month in which the tax is to be withheld (February 2023), from the incomes of:
  1) a non-resident individual who is a foreign staff member provided by a non-resident whose activity does not form a permanent establishment in the RoK according to paragraph 5 of Article 656 of the Tax code;
  2) a foreigner or stateless person who was sent to the RoK by a non-resident legal entity not registered as a taxpayer in the RoK;
• Levy for the use of species of animals that are objects of commercial fishing, in cases when the Levy amount exceeds 350 times the MRI according to quotas for the seizure of commercial fishing objects (40 percent of the total quota issued in 2022) before 25 March of the year following the year in which the quota was issued;

27 March 2023:

• Advance payments of CIT for March 2023;
• CIT withheld at source and to be transferred not later than twenty five calendar days after the end of the month in which income levied at source was paid, in respect of income paid in February 2023:
  1) resident legal entity of the RoK;
  2) non-resident legal entity doing business in the RoK through a permanent establishment;

• CIT withheld at source from income of non-resident legal entities doing business without creating a permanent establishment in the RoK, in respect of incomes:
  1) paid in February 2023;
  2) accrued in February 2023 within the amount of advances paid;
  3) from capital gain in case of selling assets located in the RoK as well as shares, participation interests associated with subsurface use operations in the RoK:
  — paid in February 2023;
  — for which CIT amount was received by a resident legal entity – subsurface user from a tax agent (taxpayer) in February 2023;
  — if not paid by a tax agent (taxpayer) and paid independently at the expense of a resident legal entity – subsurface user, information about which was received from the tax authority in February 2023;

• PIT withheld at source from income of resident individuals paid in February 2023;
• PIT withheld at source from incomes of non-resident individuals earned from sources in the RoK from capital gain in case of selling assets located in the RoK as well as shares, participation interests associated with subsurface use operations in the RoK:
  1) paid in February 2023;
  2) for which PIT amount was received by a resident legal entity – subsurface user from a tax agent (taxpayer) in February 2023;
  3) if not paid by a tax agent (taxpayer) and paid independently at the expense of a resident legal entity – subsurface user, information about which was received from the tax authority in February 2023;

• Social tax for February 2023;
• Levy for the Use of Land Plots:
  1) by an individual for land plots received for paid land use and not used in entrepreneurial activities, in the event that a temporary paid land use contract was concluded in February 2023;
  2) if the temporary paid land use contract expired or was terminated in February 2023;
• Levy for the use of a license to engage in certain types of activities (gaming business, storage and sale of alcoholic products), due not later than 25 March 2023;
• Levy for providing intercity and (or) international telephone communication, as well as cellular communication, due not later than 25 March 2023;

• Levy for the use of radio-frequency spectrum:

1) Current payment due not later than 25 March 2023;
2) to be paid by foreigners, stateless persons and non-resident legal entities that do not carry out any activities in the RoK and are not registered as taxpayers of the RoK, if the permission was obtained in February 2023;

• Levy for the placement of outdoor advertising for February 2023;
• Obligatory Pension Charges:
  1) withheld from incomes paid in February 2023 to employees and individuals under civil contracts for work, services;
  2) paid in their own favour by individual entrepreneurs working under the generally established regime and under the special tax regime on the basis of a simplified declaration, by peasant farms, private notaries, private  bailiffs, advocates and professional mediators on income received in February 2023;
  3) paid by an insurance organization when insurance payments are made as a compensation for harm associated with the loss of earnings (income), in February 2023;

• Obligatory professional pension charges assessed on incomes paid to employees engaged in jobs with harmful working conditions, the professions of which are provided for in the list of industries, jobs, professions of employees, in February 2023;
• Social assessments for February 2023 paid:
  1) on income of employees as well as persons having other paid jobs (elected, assigned or approved);
  2) independently by individual entrepreneurs, private practitioners;

• Obligatory social medical insurance (OSMI) charges on income paid to employees in February 2023;
• OSMI contributions:
  1) withheld from incomes paid in February 2023 (including the income of foreigners and stateless persons, if permanently reside in the territory of the RoK, and kandasses):
  — of employees;
  — of individuals who earn income under civil contracts concluded with a tax agent in accordance with the RoK legislation;
  2) paid independently or by third parties in their favour:
  — by an individual entrepreneur;
  — by a private practitioner (private notary, private bailiff, lawyer, professional mediator);
  — by an individual who is a payer of the Unified payment in accordance with Article 774 of the Tax code.