Uzbekistan Gaming License

What is the current status of gambling licensing in Uzbekistan?

Uzbekistan's gambling market went live on 31 July 2026, when NAPP issued the first licenses to two Uzbek companies, Olimpbet and Aurum Vale. Both hold an internet-games license and a bookmaking license, each running five years from 31 July 2026. Before that date the regime had run for 19 months with no licensee.

Uzbekistan legalised online gambling and bookmaking under Presidential Decree UP-68 of 19 April 2024. Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 814 of 6 December 2024 set the license conditions, in force from 1 January 2025. A NAPP licensing regulation followed in July 2025, and penalties for unlicensed operators took effect in October 2025.

Three conditions explain the 19-month gap between legalisation and the first license. Locked capital and reserve run to about 8.3 million dollars. The annual state duty reaches about 2.7 million dollars for an operator holding both licenses. The Unified State Register of Bets and Players, operated by Uzinfocom, became workable only during 2025.

Two licensees make Uzbekistan an open market, not a proven one. No public record shows how NAPP handles renewals, disputes or day-to-day supervision, because no Uzbek licensee has yet completed a full year of trading.

Who regulates gambling in Uzbekistan?

NAPP, the National Agency for Prospective Projects, regulates and licenses gambling in Uzbekistan. NAPP grants licenses, supervises operators, enforces anti-money laundering rules and oversees the Unified State Register of Bets and Players, which Uzinfocom operates. NAPP holds the mandate on an interim basis until Uzbekistan establishes a permanent authority.

NAPP is a multi-sector regulator. The agency's remit covers crypto-assets, capital markets, insurance, e-commerce, lotteries and gambling. A law of 17 April 2025 expanded those powers and classified bookmaking, lotteries and online gambling as licensable activities.

The agency's official English name on napp.uz is National Agency for Prospective Projects. Several trade publications write "Perspective Projects" instead. Both spellings refer to the same body, and this page uses "Prospective" throughout.

Who can obtain an Uzbekistan gambling license?

Only a resident legal entity of Uzbekistan can hold an Uzbekistan gambling license. The company registers in Uzbekistan, hosts its platform on servers physically inside the country and runs a single domain in the national .uz segment. A foreign company cannot hold the license directly.

A foreign operator enters Uzbekistan by incorporating a local company and licensing that entity. Olimpbet took exactly this route as the local arm of a regional betting brand. Founders face a second condition: a founder must be resident in a country that participates in international anti-money laundering cooperation.

An offshore license is not a lighter version of the same market entry. NAPP counts play as Uzbek where at least two factors apply, among them Uzbek citizenship, play from Uzbek territory, an Uzbek-issued card, an Uzbek IP address or an Uzbek phone number. Serving those players without an Uzbek license is an offence.

NAPP also screens ownership and restricts license holders whose owners, directors or ultimate beneficial owners have links to financial crime.

What activities does the Uzbekistan license cover?

An Uzbekistan gambling license covers three activities, each licensed separately: internet risk-based games (ITO), bookmaking (BF) and lotteries. Uzbek law permits all three online only. Land-based casinos and slot halls remain banned, and the single physical exception is a point selling lottery tickets.

• Internet risk-based games (ITO): online casino and games of chance delivered over the internet, five-year term.

• Bookmaking (BF): sports and event betting, five-year term.

• Lottery: lottery organisation, five-year term, with lower capital and a lower annual duty than ITO or BF.

A full casino and betting product needs both an ITO license and a BF license. Olimpbet and Aurum Vale each hold both, which is why each pays two annual state duties.

Betting content carries limits. Uzbekistan prohibits bets on local events and on youth sport, and permits betting on international competitions.

Market terminology varies. An Uzbekistan sportsbook license describes the BF license, and an Uzbekistan iGaming license describes the ITO license. Neither is a separate product NAPP issues.

What are the B2C and B2B licenses in Uzbekistan?

Uzbekistan licenses the B2C operator that takes bets from players and has no separate B2B supplier license. Uzbek rules name three license classes, internet risk-based games, bookmaking and lotteries, and NAPP's public register lists only those. A software or random number generation vendor enters through conformity certification by a NAPP-authorised laboratory.

For a supplier that structure sets the commercial path. Certification travels with the product, while the licensed Uzbek operator holds the regulatory relationship with NAPP, including register integration and anti-money laundering duties, and carries responsibility for its suppliers.

Localisation is unavoidable on the operator side. A foreign platform participates by incorporating in Uzbekistan and hosting locally, not by supplying across the border into an unlicensed market.

How much does an Uzbekistan gambling license cost?

An Uzbekistan gambling license costs 500 base calculation units per license type to issue, about 18,400 dollars. The recurring cost is far larger: an annual state duty of 37,000 units per license category, some 1.36 million dollars, plus a 4% turnover tax. Capital and reserve are locked separately.

The recurring numbers that decide an Uzbekistan business case:

• State duty for a full product, internet games plus bookmaking: about 2.7 million dollars a year.

• Turnover tax on top of that duty: 4% of income after paid winnings and returned bets.

• Locked capital and reserve, held in a dedicated account and unavailable for operations: about 8.3 million dollars.

Published coverage understates the issuance fee by a factor of ten. Trade and advisory sources give it as 18.75 million soums, about 1,500 dollars, while stating 500 base calculation units in the same sentence. Those two figures cannot both hold, because 500 units at the December 2024 unit value of 375,000 soums equals 187.5 million soums.

Renewal and amendment are confused in the same coverage. The 250-unit charge is the fee to amend an issued license, not to renew one. No separate renewal fee is published, and the annual state duty is what an Uzbek licensee actually pays year on year.

A separate 1% state levy is reported but not confirmed. Uzbek coverage of Presidential Decree UP-68 describes a 1% payment to the state running to 2029, with one source putting the base at all bets accepted and another at total funds deposited by players. Those bases produce very different costs, so an Uzbekistan model should carry the 1% as a range until NAPP publishes the rule.

The issuance fee is trivial against the rest. An operator running both internet games and bookmaking commits about 8.3 million dollars in locked capital and reserve plus about 2.7 million dollars a year in state duty before the turnover tax, and that structure, not the fee, held Uzbekistan at zero licensees for 19 months.

What taxes apply to an Uzbekistan gambling license?

Licensed operators in Uzbekistan pay a 4% turnover tax on total income after paid winnings and returned bets are deducted, a base equivalent to gross gaming revenue. Player winnings from a licensed Uzbek operator are exempt from personal income tax. Presidential Decree UP-68 sets both positions.

The 4% rate is provisional. Uzbekistan runs it as a three-year experiment from 1 July 2026 to 2029, and NAPP must table a permanent Tax Code mechanism by 1 January 2027. An operator modelling Uzbekistan beyond 2029 is modelling a rate that has not been legislated permanently.

The two rates cover different taxpayers. Operators owe 4% on gaming income, and players owe nothing on winnings. Ordinary Uzbek business taxes apply alongside the turnover-tax experiment, so the combined position needs local tax advice.

The annual state duty is not a tax. Uzbek rules charge it as a licensing fee per category, and it falls due whatever the operator earns.

What are the advantages of an Uzbekistan gambling license?

Uzbekistan offers a 4% turnover tax, tax-free player winnings, one regulator in NAPP and early entry into a market of roughly 37 million people with two licensed operators. Uzbek citizens send an estimated 350 million to 1 billion dollars a year to illegal offshore books.

• Turnover tax of 4% on gaming income, low against regulated European rates.

• Player winnings exempt from personal income tax, which supports retention.

• One regulator, NAPP, covering licensing, supervision and anti-money laundering.

• A domestic market of roughly 37 million people, with two licensed operators as of August 2026.

• An estimated 350 million to 1 billion dollars a year currently reaching illegal offshore books, the figure Uzbek press cites as the legalisation rationale.

• A five-year license term, which supports planning across an investment cycle.

What are the disadvantages of an Uzbekistan gambling license?

Uzbekistan requires a resident company, in-country servers and a single .uz domain, so the license is not an offshore product. Locked capital and reserve reach about 8.3 million dollars, the annual state duty about 2.7 million dollars for a full product, and Article 46 of the Law on Advertising bans gambling advertising outright.

• Residency is mandatory: an Uzbek legal entity, servers inside Uzbekistan and one .uz domain.

• Locked capital and reserve of about 8.3 million dollars, unavailable for operations.

• An annual state duty of about 1.36 million dollars per license category, about 2.7 million dollars for internet games and bookmaking together.

• The 4% turnover tax runs as an experiment to 2029, with a permanent Tax Code mechanism due by 1 January 2027.

• A total advertising ban under Article 46 of the Law on Advertising, which removes the standard acquisition playbook.

• A monthly betting limit set through the register, which Uzbek rules cap at 10% of the player's average monthly income, plus a broad list of citizens barred from playing.

• Real-time integration with the Unified State Register of Bets and Players, which routes every registration and bet through state infrastructure Uzinfocom operates.

• NAPP holds an interim mandate, so supervisory practice may change when a permanent authority takes over.

• Two licensees and no full year of trading precedent, so renewal and dispute handling are untested.

• Legalisation passed over public dissent in a majority-Muslim country, which leaves policy-reversal risk.

Why choose MGL Solutions for Uzbekistan licensing?

MGL Solutions handles the parts of an Uzbekistan application a foreign operator cannot do remotely: incorporating the resident Uzbek company, funding capital and reserve into a dedicated account, assembling the NAPP filing for each license type, arranging in-country hosting and the .uz domain, and building register and anti-money laundering compliance.

MGL Solutions has obtained 300+ licenses across the jurisdictions it covers. On Uzbekistan, two licenses exist in total, so no consultancy can show a volume track record in this jurisdiction, and any claim to one is worth checking.

What MGL Solutions will not promise is an offshore shortcut, a license without local presence, or a grant date in a regime with one completed licensing round. An operator who needs revenue this year is better served by an operational jurisdiction, and MGL Solutions will say so.

How does Uzbekistan compare with other gaming licenses?

Uzbekistan differs from MGL Solutions' offshore jurisdictions on structure, not price. Uzbekistan is online only, demands a resident company with in-country servers, charges an annual state duty in the millions, and has two licensees. Anjouan, Curaçao and Kahnawake license non-resident holders and impose no capital lock of that order.

Every Uzbekistan figure in the table is current to August 2026 and indexed to the base calculation unit. Figures for Anjouan, Curaçao and Kahnawake are set out in full on each jurisdiction page. Compare the whole set on the gambling license hub.