By October 1, 2019, about 260,000 individual entrepreneurs have reportedly shut down their businesses in Tajikistan.
The Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan says that 209,000 entrepreneurs working on patents, 43,300 entrepreneurs working on certificates and 7,500 dehqon farms have closed down their businesses in January-September this year, which is 25,600 or 11 percent more than in the same period last year.
As of October 1, 2019, 553,100 individual entrepreneurs are registered in Tajikistan; of them, 313,600 entrepreneurs work on patents, 77,700 others work on certificates and 161,900 are dehqon farms.
Meanwhile, only 293,400 individual entrepreneurs are currently active in the country.
The share of dehqon farms among the active individual entrepreneurs is 52.6 percent, the share of individual entrepreneurs working on patents – 35.6 percent, and the share of individual entrepreneurs working on certificates – 11.7 percent.
The majority of active individual entrepreneurs are in Sughd province (36.8 percent of a total number of active individual entrepreneurs in the country) and Khatlon province (31.5 percent). 18.5 percent of active individual entrepreneurs are in districts subordinate to the center, 11.9 percent in Dushanbe, and 1.3 percent in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).
It is to be noted that many Tajik individual entrepreneurs complain of lack of government support and unreasonable tax conditions.
