Tax Authorities Start Warning Kazakhstanis About Mobile Transfers

Kazakhstan’s Finance Ministry has started sending citizens notifications about mobile transfers, Orda.kz reports.

Deputy Finance Minister Yerzhan Birzhanov said the ministry received data on mobile transfers for the first quarter in April. In May, notifications began being sent to Kazakhstanis whose transactions appeared suspicious to tax authorities.

Birzhanov explained that these are not fines, but warnings that give citizens the opportunity to correct the data in future declarations.

We received data on mobile transfers for the first quarter in April, processed them, and since May we have been sending notices and notifications to citizens that there are risks related to taxation,he said on the sidelines of the Mazhilis.

The notifications concern several categories of citizens: individuals who are not registered as entrepreneurs, individual entrepreneurs under the simplified tax regime, and individual entrepreneurs working under the generally established regime.

Each category has its own procedure.

• Individual entrepreneurs under the simplified regime submit reports for the first half of the year. They can include the amount of discrepancies in the nearest declaration.
• Individual entrepreneurs under the generally established regime submit a declaration at the end of the year. They will also be able to reflect the identified amounts in their annual reports.

If a person receives income through mobile transfers but is not registered as an entrepreneur, they will be asked to register.

We are now moving toward a service model. We say: we see this income, the deadline for the declaration is approaching. Please include it in the declaration. If you are an individual and are not registered, please register,Birzhanov said.

He stressed that the Finance Ministry has not yet fined anyone in such cases.

Original author: Ilya Astakhov

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