Tashkent residents receive housing revaluation notices: what an owner should do

Since 5 September, property owners in Tashkent have been receiving notices through MyGov.uz with the results of the mass valuation. It was carried out by the National Centre for Mass Valuation of Real Property under the Cadastre Agency to bring recorded values closer to market ones.

The gap turned out to be large. The city's apartments were valued in total at 426.7 trillion soums, 7.4 times above their cadastral value. Private houses with land plots were valued at 587 trillion soums against 39 trillion by the cadastre, roughly 15 times higher. By 7 September about 5,000 residents had responded, and 78% of them agreed with the new valuation.

The authorities stress that the mass valuation by itself does not create tax obligations and does not automatically increase payments. Tax rates change only through separate legislation, and the current rules cap the annual growth of property tax at 20% regardless of how much the valuation has risen.

The result can be viewed on davreestr.uz or MyGov.uz, where the owner clicks "agree" or "disagree". Errors in cadastral data are corrected through a request form; an owner may propose their own value with supporting evidence and photographs. Explanatory meetings were held in all 585 mahallas of Tashkent. Objections will later be reviewed by an appeals commission of at least five members within 15 days, and an independent appraisal and the courts remain available.

What this means in practice: open the notice and check the property details — floor area, number of storeys, year of construction. An error in the source data is cheaper to correct now, before the valuation becomes the tax base.

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