Tashkent, March 23 -- More than a thousand self-employed women are utilizing the services of online taxi websites for passenger transportation. Self-employment aims to engage citizens in business activities and provide opportunities for legal work. In Uzbekistan, over 2.6 million individuals are registered as self-employed this year.

Self-employed individuals are exempt from tax if their income remains below 100 million soums, though they can voluntarily pay social tax for benefits such as pension calculation. This year, almost 70,000 self-employed individuals paid 21.7 billion soums in social tax.

Passenger transportation via light vehicles has been added to the list of permissible activities for self-employed individuals, aiming to en...