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News of the ministry from its press service.
2026
On Wednesday 28 October observers of the ministry and the Territorial Statistics Office made the first weekly record of the prices of fourteen staple goods at Bazar-i Kalan and Jıldız Market in Talas, the Central Market in…
On a working visit to Sary-Bulak District on Thursday, Lieutenant Governor Aidar Maksat was informed that investment in the district's mining sector has reached US$216.6 million. Investors have indicated that about 2% of their…
The Ministry of Economy's preliminary estimate puts ISEZ agricultural output for January to September 2026 at IS 6.1 billion, with volume up about 12% on the same period of 2025. The result is one of the pillars of the 9.4%…
The Office of the Lieutenant Governor has announced that the State Anti-Inflation Programme will take effect on 1 January 2027, with the Ministry of Economy and the Bank of Irad as the implementing bodies.
The first full tally of investment agreements since late 2023 shows energy, antimony and logistics drawing most foreign capital.
Aidar Maksat and the Director-General of Attelkom, Samat Kasymov, inspected the first phase of a planned US$450 million data-centre hub in Nurzhan's Eastern Industrial Zone.
The draft quota for 2027 keeps the total at 3,400 work permits. More permits are proposed for mining, for the restart of the Sary-Bulak works, and fewer for construction and trade. Employers apply in the first working week of…
Under Executive Directive 2026/24 on the census of business entities, from 15 October to 30 November an extract from the Register of Firms will be issued only on showing the census slip. Firms that have not been visited by an…
Iradstandart has completed the yearly verification of scales at the bazaars of Talas: 2,814 scales were checked and 2,640 sealed; 174 were taken out of use, most of them spring scales. Teams move to Nurzhan in May.
The State Tax Service reminds taxpayers that annual returns for 2025 are due by 31 March 2026 and property tax returns by 1 May. In March and April the Talas and Nurzhan inspectorates also open on Saturdays.
2025
Following the memorandum on trade and border coordination signed with Uzbekistan on 10 February, the ministry will agree with the Customs Service the list of goods for the simplified clearance of small traders' loads at…
2023
The Register of Firms now holds 40,212 active entries: 28,960 sole traders, 9,104 companies and partnerships and 2,148 cooperatives. Nearly half are in Talas.
2021
The amended Public Procurement Act takes effect today. Single-source procurement is allowed only in the cases of article 21(1)(a) to (e); suppliers found unreliable are barred for two years (article 43); bids must be submitted in…
2020
The Ministry of Economy has opened its new website, prepared with the support of the UNMI trade facilitation programme. Forms, the register offices, the licensing rules and the tax calendar are now in one place, in Iradi, English…