Only a few years ago, state oversight in this area relied largely on reporting, inspections and separate information databases. In 2026 the model began to change noticeably: through the Unified Accounting System, the state brings together in a single digital environment the operations of the legal market, checks of restrictions, monitoring of illegal resources, analytics and earmarked deductions. Behind the dry abbreviation UAS lies an infrastructure that is gradually changing the very principle of how the industry is regulated.
The scale of the task is clear from the figures alone. In materials prepared before the launch of the UAS, the market for 2024 was estimated at more than KZT 1.3 trillion. More than 450,000 people regularly used the services of legal organizers, and, according to the same estimates, over 490,000 more interacted with the illegal segment.
For an industry of this scale, after-the-fact oversight becomes too slow. When a transaction takes seconds, restrictions apply online, and an illegal resource can change its address faster than a paper-based inspection can be completed, the state also needs infrastructure that works digitally.
This is exactly the task the Unified Accounting System addresses.
The legal basis for the UAS did not appear overnight. The concept of the system was enshrined in legislation in September 2024. In April 2025 the rules for its operation were approved, and in June the legal entity responsible for the operation of the system was designated.
The system was put into practical operation on March 27, 2026. Project materials at the time of launch reported that 7 of the 8 bookmaker offices participating in the relevant circuit had been integrated with the UAS.
But the UAS is not simply a large database to which betting information is transmitted. Its architecture combines several functions at once: recording of operations, information exchange, checking of restrictions, monitoring of the internet, analytics and the financial circuit of earmarked deductions.
One of the clearest examples is restrictions on participation.
The law may set an age limit or prohibit a certain category of citizens from participating. But without a technical check, such a rule remains dependent on many separate procedures.
The UAS brings this logic into digital form: the system checks whether restrictions have already been established and allows them to be applied directly when a user interacts with a legal gambling organizer. At the same time, the system itself does not create prohibitions and does not decide whom to restrict. It ensures the enforcement of rules established by legislation and by decisions of the authorized bodies.
The scale of such checks is already measured in tens of thousands of cases.
According to data from the Gambling Monitoring and Analysis Center at the end of August 2026, since the launch of the system access had been restricted for more than 180,000 citizens. Of these, more than 23,000 people used the self-exclusion mechanism on their own initiative. Separately, more than 31,000 minors were not admitted to participation.
These figures clearly show the difference between a legal norm and working infrastructure. A rule by itself answers the question of who is not allowed. The digital environment has to answer a different question: how to make sure the restriction actually takes effect at the right moment.
This is where digitalization becomes visible to ordinary people. A state information system usually remains somewhere “behind the screen”. In this case, some of its functions are brought directly into user scenarios.
In 2026 Kazakhstan took a major step in protecting citizens from excessive involvement in gambling.
A single technological environment now links the recording of operations, checks of established restrictions, monitoring of the illegal segment and analytics.
Previously, the state largely saw the result only after an action had been taken. Now the task is for some of the rules to be enforced directly within the digital process.