Company: FRHC
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000924805-25-000041
Chunk: 98

Company: Freedom Holding Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 98
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 into effect on January 1, 2026.The amendments related to the current tax code of Kazakhstan, is effective for the period starting from January 1, 2025 until December 31, 2025, and concerns the procedures and deadlines for filing individual tax returns. There will also be an additional 10% applied to the corporate income tax rate on certain types of income, including net income from debt securities issued by Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan, income from short-term deposits with the National Bank of Kazakhstan, net income from swaps with maturities of up to one year, and net interest income from direct and reverse REPO transactions. As a result of this change, the Company's Kazakhstani subsidiaries have incurred additional income tax expense in the amount of $14,718 for the three and six months ended  September 30, 2025. The details are presented in the table below:Tax effect at Kazakhstani subsidiaries14,718 Foreign tax credit used for GILTI and Subpart F Income taxes(5,378)Foreign tax credit used for Pillar II(4,805)Income tax expense effect, net of foreign tax credits4,535 Income before income tax expenses for six month ended September 30, 2025101,001 Effect on the consolidated effective tax rate4.49 %The new Tax Code of Kazakhstan, effective from January 1, 2026, is mainly aimed at reducing the volume of tax exemptions and transitioning to differentiated tax rates across various sectors of the economy. The new Tax Code provides for an increase in the corporate income tax rate for the banking sector to 25%, except for income from business lending, the elimination of VAT exemptions on certain financial operations, and an increase in the VAT rate to 16%. In addition, the new Tax Code does not stipulate an additional 10% tax. Income from government securities will be partially tax exempted from taxable income with a limit up to 50% from total income from government securities. On July 4, 2025, US President Trump signed into law the legislation commonly referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”). The OBBBA includes various provisions, such as the permanent extension of certain expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, modifications to the international tax framework and the restoration of favorable tax treatment for certain business provisions. The OBBBA has multiple effective dates, with certain provisions effective from April 1, 2026 and others implemented through