Kazakhstan to offer investors tax deductions for research expenses

Kazakhstan to offer investors tax deductions for research expenses

Kazakhstan will provide tax deductions of up to 150 percent of the funds spent on scientific expenditures to investors, according to the country’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education. A corresponding mechanism will be envisaged in the law on science and technology policy in September-October. The document would be adopted in the first half of 2024 after the consideration in the Parliament. It bears noting that in the next three years, the state will allocate 650 billion tenge for science in Kazakhstan, wherein about nine billion tenge will be directed to finance fundamental research, namely to eleven research institutes. Kazakhstan is set to increase science funding up to one percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2027-2028. This year, it stood at 0.25 percent.