
The draft order was developed in the implementation of paragraph 5 of the Comprehensive Plan of Measures to Counter the Shadow Economy for 2023-2025, which defines the improvement of desk control using biometric identification of risky taxpayers in order to suppress the facts of issuing (canceling) fictitious electronic invoices and filing false tax reports, as well as in accordance with Articles 136 and 137 The Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Taxes and other mandatory payments to the budget" (Tax Code).
The draft order provides for amendments to paragraphs 4 and 7 of the Rules and the deadline for the implementation of the pilot project on the use of biometric identification tools in the electronic invoice information system (hereinafter referred to as the Rules) and additions to paragraph 4-1.
The amendments to paragraphs 4 and 7 of the Rules provide for a norm according to which the means of biometric identification in the Electronic Invoices information system (hereinafter referred to as the ESF IC) are used when issuing an electronic invoice (hereinafter referred to as the ESF) by an ESF IC participant certified by an electronic digital signature (EDS) of the taxpayer's head or an authorized individual, determined by the results of the risk management system, as well as the regulation of the discharge of the ESF after passing biometric identification in the framework of the pilot project.
The addition of the Rules by paragraph 4-1 determines the frequency of passing biometric identification when signing the ESF in order to simplify its discharge for bona fide taxpayers.
The draft regulatory legal act complies with international treaties ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan and decisions of international organizations to which the Republic of Kazakhstan is a party.
The development of a regulatory legal act (hereinafter referred to as the NPA) was carried out in accordance with paragraph 7 of Article 152 of the Tax Code. The implementation of the NPA will not require the allocation of funds from the republican budget and does not affect the interests of private business entities, nor will it entail negative socio-economic and/or legal consequences.
The draft order was posted on September 20, 2023 on the Internet portal of open regulatory legal acts (https://legalacts.egov.kz/arm/admin/viewcard?id=14718316) in Kazakh, Russian and English languages.