> ## Documentation Index
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# Kazakhstan

> How to collect KYB documents from business customers in Kazakhstan (KAZ) when onboarding through the Conduit API.

## Overview

| Field        | Value                         |
| ------------ | ----------------------------- |
| Region       | Asia (West, South & Central)  |
| ISO 3166-1   | KZ / KAZ                      |
| Registry     | Ministry of Justice / egov.kz |
| Last updated | 2026-05-06                    |

## Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Kazakhstan and submit them as strings on the application body.

| API field                       | Local name | Issuer                             |
| ------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------- |
| `businessInfo.taxId`            | **BIN**    | State Revenue Committee (SRC), MoF |
| `businessInfo.businessEntityId` | **BIN**    | State Revenue Committee (SRC), MoF |

*Tax ID:* 12 digits; first 4 encode year+month of registration. BIN is simultaneously the tax ID — no separate tax certificate number.

*Registration number:* 12 digits; first 4 encode year+month of registration. BIN is simultaneously the tax ID — no separate tax certificate number.

## Sector regulators

`NBK` · `ARDFM` · `AFSA` · `AFM/CDFT`

## Legal structures

| Local name                                                            | Abbreviation | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Жауапкершілігі шектеулі серіктестік (Limited Liability Partnership)   | TOO / LLP    | Most common commercial vehicle; charter capital divided into participation interests held by members; liability limited to capital contribution. Equivalent to a US LLC.                                                                                           |
| Толық жауапкершілікпен серіктестік (Additional Liability Partnership) | —            | Closely-held quota company similar to TOO but participants also bear additional personal liability up to a pre-agreed multiple of their contribution. Equivalent to a US LLC (with contractual personal guarantee overlay).                                        |
| Акционерлік қоғам (Joint Stock Company)                               | AO / JSC     | Issues shares; required for banks, insurers, and listed entities; minimum charter capital 50,000 MCI (\~USD 465k at 2026 rates); shareholders' liability limited to share value. Closest US equivalent: C-Corp.                                                    |
| Толық серіктестік (General Partnership)                               | —            | Two or more partners jointly and severally liable with all personal property for partnership obligations; profits and losses shared per agreement. Closest US equivalent: General Partnership (GP).                                                                |
| Коммандиттік серіктестік (Limited Partnership / Commandite)           | —            | Has one or more general partners with unlimited personal liability and one or more limited partners (commanditists) whose liability is capped at their contribution. Closest US equivalent: Limited Partnership (LP).                                              |
| Жеке кәсіпкер (Individual Entrepreneur / Sole Proprietorship)         | IP / ИП      | Natural person conducting registered business activity without forming a legal entity; unlimited personal liability; registered with the tax authority within one business day. Equivalent to a US Sole Proprietorship.                                            |
| AIFC Private Company                                                  | —            | Closely-held company limited by shares registered with AFSA under English-common-law-modeled AIFC Companies Regulations; shares are restricted from public transfer; the standard SME vehicle in the AIFC. Equivalent to a US LLC (single-member or multi-member). |
| AIFC Public Company                                                   | —            | Company limited by shares registered with AFSA; shares may be offered to the public and listed on the Astana International Exchange (AIX); requires at least two directors. Closest US equivalent: C-Corp.                                                         |
| AIFC Limited Liability Partnership                                    | LLP (AIFC)   | Member-based limited-liability vehicle registered with AFSA under AIFC LLP Regulations; requires at least two members; liability limited to agreed contribution. Equivalent to a US LLC.                                                                           |
| AIFC General Partnership                                              | —            | Partnership of two or more persons registered with AFSA in which all partners bear unlimited joint and several liability; governed by AIFC General Partnership Regulations. Closest US equivalent: General Partnership (GP).                                       |
| AIFC Limited Partnership                                              | —            | AFSA-registered partnership with one or more general partners (unlimited liability) and one or more limited partners (liability capped at contribution); governed by AIFC Limited Partnership Regulations. Closest US equivalent: Limited Partnership (LP).        |
| Branch (Филиал)                                                       | —            | Registered subdivision of a foreign or domestic legal entity; not a separate legal entity; head acts under notarized power of attorney from the parent company. Closest US equivalent: Branch/Rep Office.                                                          |
| Representative Office (Өкілдік / Представительство)                   | —            | Registered presence of a foreign legal entity permitted only to represent and protect the parent's interests; may not conduct commercial transactions directly; not a separate legal entity. Closest US equivalent: Branch/Rep Office.                             |

## How documents combine

For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below.

| Evidence area          | Documents needed                                                                              |
| ---------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Legal Registration     | Certificate of State Registration                                                             |
| Constitutive Documents | *All required:* Ustav + Founding Agreement                                                    |
| Tax Registration       | *Any one of:* BIN Certificate · SRC Taxpayer Print-Out                                        |
| Ownership Records      | *Any one of:* Participants Register TOO · Share Register AO                                   |
| Governance Records     | *All required:* Charter + Director Appointment Order + Executive Body Appointment             |
| Signing Authority      | Board Resolution (Протокол)                                                                   |
| Address                | *Any one of:* Договор аренды · Квитанция за коммунальные услуги · Выписка с банковского счета |
| Good Standing          | Anyqtama (Справка о зарегистрированном юридическом лице)                                      |

## Documents to collect

The physical documents you'll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil's Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed.

| Document                                                                       | Proves                                     |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------ |
| **Certificate of State Registration (egov.kz extract)**                        | Legal Registration                         |
| **Ustav (Charter)**                                                            | Constitutive Documents, Governance Records |
| **Founding Agreement (multi-founder TOO only)**                                | Constitutive Documents                     |
| **BIN Certificate**                                                            | Tax Registration                           |
| **SRC Taxpayer Print-Out**                                                     | Tax Registration                           |
| **Participants Register (ТОО — Товарищество с ограниченной ответственностью)** | Ownership Records                          |
| **Share Register (АО — Акционерное общество)**                                 | Ownership Records                          |
| **Director Appointment Order**                                                 | Governance Records                         |
| **Executive Body Appointment (AO)**                                            | Governance Records                         |
| **Board Resolution (Протокол)**                                                | Signing Authority                          |
| **Договор аренды**                                                             | Address                                    |
| **Квитанция за коммунальные услуги (≤90 дней)**                                | Address                                    |
| **Выписка с банковского счета (≤90 дней)**                                     | Address                                    |
| **Anyqtama from State Database "Legal Entities" (egov.kz)**                    | Good Standing                              |
| **Sector-Specific License**                                                    | NBK license, ARDFM license, AFSA License   |

**Not applicable in Kazakhstan:** Operating Permit. Skip these areas — no local artifact exists.

### Collection notes

* **Legal Registration:** Issued electronically; also verify via State DB "Legal entities" on egov.kz.
* **Constitutive Documents:** Single charter suffices for sole-founder TOO and AO. AIFC entities use Memorandum & Articles under AIFC Companies Regulations.
* **Tax Registration:** BIN is the tax ID; no separate tax registration certificate issued — use SRC search result or the registration certificate showing BIN.
* **Sector-Specific License:** NBK for banks/payments; ARDFM for securities/insurance; AFSA for AIFC financial services.
* **Governance Records:** AO must have board of directors (min. 3 members) plus executive body.
* **Signing Authority:** Branch head acts solely on notarized POA from parent company.
* **Address:** Conduit universal policy: lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.
* **Good Standing:** Issued by the Ministry of Justice via egov.kz as an electronic reference (Anyqtama) carrying current status, BIN, registered address and director on a specified date. Digitally signed; verify QR code. Request a certificate dated within 30 days of submission.

## Person roles

When you submit a person on the application body, set their `role` to one of Conduit's canonical `BusinessPersonRole` values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role.

| Local role                                                    | Canonical API role     | Description                                                                                |
| ------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Директор / Sole Executive Director (TOO)                      | `CONTROLLING_PERSON`   | Sole executive body of TOO; day-to-day authority, binds entity.                            |
| Басқарма Төрағасы / Management Board Chair (AO)               | `CONTROLLING_PERSON`   | Head of management board (executive body) of JSC; operational authority.                   |
| Директорлар Кеңесінің Мүшесі / Board of Directors Member (AO) | `CONTROLLING_PERSON`   | Non-executive governance board of JSC; min. 3 members required.                            |
| Филиал Басшысы / Branch Head                                  | `LEGAL_REPRESENTATIVE` | Appointed by parent; acts solely under notarized POA; not an officer of a separate entity. |
| Өкіл / Attorney-in-fact (POA holder)                          | `LEGAL_REPRESENTATIVE` | Holder of notarized доверенность authorizing specific acts.                                |

## Notes

* Single identifier: BIN serves as both the registry number and the corporate tax ID — collect one certificate; both `businessInfo.taxId` and `businessInfo.businessEntityId` take the same value.
* BIN = TIN: Kazakhstan uses a single 12-digit BIN as both the corporate registry number and tax identification number. Do not request a separate "tax certificate" document — request the BIN extract from kgd.gov.kz or the registration certificate.
* AIFC bifurcation: Entities registered with AFSA (publicreg.myafsa.com) are governed by English-common-law-modeled AIFC Acts, not Kazakh civil law. Their constitutive documents, share registers, and compliance filings differ from mainland entities; verify whether an entity is AIFC-registered before applying mainland document requirements.
* No general municipal operating license: Unlike most CIS jurisdictions, Kazakhstan does not issue a general municipal trade permit. The e-license (elicense.kz) covers only \~500 regulated activity types; for unregulated businesses the Operating Permit field is genuinely N/A.
* Kazakhstan is an Apostille Convention party (HCCH Status Table — confirmed as of 2026-05-06); foreign documents for branch registration must be apostilled and translated into Kazakh and Russian.