Kurultai Deputy Avershin demanded a check into the decline in the number of businesses in Kazakhstan
The number of active small and medium-sized business (SMB) entities in Kazakhstan fell by more than 200,000 in the first six months of 2026. Kurultai deputy Konstantin Avershin linked the need for additional analysis to changes in the tax regime and asked the government to establish what share of entrepreneurs had genuinely ceased operating and what share had changed their tax status.