Tashkent shopkeepers face remote Asl Belgisi audits from January 2026.
From 1 January 2026 Uzbekistan's State Tax Committee begins remote inspections of compliance with Asl Belgisi (Uzbekistan's national digital-marking system, the equivalent of Russia's Chestny ZNAK), with no warrant and no on-site visit. Cabinet of Ministers Resolution PP-190 (May 2025) sets a progressive fine ladder of 0.2%, 0.4%, 1% and 2% of net quarterly revenue, plus a one-year loss of value-added tax (VAT) reimbursement rights on repeat findings within twelve months.
01The pain
Forty-eight bottles of mineral water, every one stamped with a Data Matrix code, every code registered against the till receipt that minute. From 1 January 2026 a Tashkent grocer scanning Asl Belgisi (Uzbekistan's national digital-marking system, the equivalent of Russia's Chestny ZNAK) is no longer just confirming a product. They are feeding a remote auditor who will never knock on the shop door.1
Cabinet of Ministers Resolution PP-190 (May 2025) replaced on-site checks with distance-based inspections and set a progressive fine ladder: two warnings, then 0.2% of net quarterly revenue, escalating to 0.4%, 1% and 2% on repeat findings inside twelve months.2 Loss of value-added tax (VAT) reimbursement rights follows for one year. Wholesale of any marked category (alcohol, tobacco, beer, pharmaceuticals, household appliances, dairy, bottled water, soft drinks, fertilizers, pesticides) has been cashless-only since 1 September 2025, and any marking violation since that same date is auto-classified "high" tax risk.3
Several tens of thousands of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Tashkent and the regions now wire Asl Belgisi code application into their cash registers, mirror every receipt against the electronic invoice system (ESF) on Soliq.uz, hold cashless wholesale accounts, and keep a remote-audit-ready archive for an inspector they will never see. By August 2026 the Cabinet plans criminal penalties and mandatory confiscation for fake-marked goods.1
Further reading
- 1 Gazeta.uz (Russian) — long-form report on the May 2025 reform of Uzbekistan's mandatory digital-marking regime: the move to remote inspections by the State Tax Committee from 1 January 2026, the fine ladder set by Cabinet of Ministers Resolution PP-190, the cashless-only wholesale rule from 1 September 2025, and the August 2026 plan for criminal penalties and confiscation: gazeta.uz
- 2 Buxgalter.uz (Russian) — practitioner walkthrough of the nine main changes introduced by Resolution PP-190, including the warning-then-percentage fine sequence (0.2% → 0.4% → 1% → 2% of net quarterly revenue) and the one-year loss of value-added tax (VAT) reimbursement rights on repeats: buxgalter.uz
- 3 Norma.uz (Russian) — companion legislative summary detailing the categories of goods subject to mandatory digital marking, the cashless-only wholesale obligation, and the auto-classification of marking violations as "high" tax risk for purposes of subsequent State Tax Committee scrutiny: norma.uz
02Who solves this today
Four providers active in Uzbekistan whose own pages explicitly market either an Asl Belgisi-integrated cash register / cloud till, a productised Asl Belgisi onboarding service, a serialization platform built for the Uzbek track-and-trace regime, or scanner / label-printing hardware tested against Asl Belgisi. The wider Uzbek accounting-software, point-of-sale (POS) and law-firm market has not yet bundled the full Tashkent-SME compliance stack — certified printer plus cloud till plus electronic invoice system (ESF) reconciliation plus cashless-acquiring plus remote-audit archive — onto a single monthly subscription, which is precisely the wedge in the third TL;DR bullet. Each entry was checked live on the date of writing. The list is intentionally narrow.
Listed providers publicly market to the Uzbekistan Asl Belgisi / digital-marking / remote-audit niche on their own pages. Inclusion is not endorsement. Adjacent vendors and platforms were considered and excluded where their public homepage or service pages did not explicitly name the niche on the date of writing — TraceLink's Uzbekistan compliance press release returned HTTP 403 (anti-bot wall) on probe, so it was dropped pending re-check; OPTEL's Asl Belgisi compliance page (optelgroup.com/en/compliance/asl-belgisi-the-uzbekistan-traceability-system/) returned HTTP 200 but described the regulatory regime rather than positioning a productised OPTEL solution for Asl Belgisi specifically, so it was dropped; 1С:Розница для Узбекистана (1c.uz/v8/generic_products/uz_retail.php) returned HTTP 200 but referenced "marking systems" only generically without naming Asl Belgisi on its product page, so it was dropped; GRATA International's Uzbekistan digital-labelling article (gratanet.com/news/uzbekistan-expanded-list-of-products-subject-to-mandatory-digital-labelling) returned HTTP 200 as a news announcement rather than service-marketing copy, so it was dropped; EY Uzbekistan, PwC, KPMG and Deloitte's Uzbek practice pages did not surface any explicit Asl Belgisi or PP-190 advisory product on the date of writing, so all four were dropped; Kosta Legal, Centil Law, Lexcell and Leges Advokat were re-checked and still did not surface a dedicated Asl Belgisi advisory on their public service pages, so all four were dropped pending updated marketing copy. The narrowness of the list — one cloud till with marking integration, one global serialization platform, one Tashkent integrator, one local hardware vendor — is itself the structural opening: the Tashkent SME compliance bundle (printer plus till plus ESF plus cashless-acquiring plus archive on a single monthly subscription) is not yet productised by any single Uzbek provider.
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