The Agency on Regulation and Development of the Financial Market (ARDFM) has prepared a set of amendments to the country’s Tax Code aimed at revising criteria for dividend tax exemption in favor of Kazakhstani residents. The draft document is available for public consideration.
The current rules allow both domestic and foreign investors to not pay taxes on dividends they received from stocks traded on Kazakhstani exchanges if they meet two conditions: first, they have to carry out at least 50 transactions with a certain stock per month; second, the total volume of these transactions should be at least $55,234.
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