Almost every guide to setting up a company in Belarus tells you the same thing. Use an LLC. The advice isn’t wrong. For most foreign founders, an LLC is genuinely the right choice. But “most” leaves a meaningful minority of cases where the Private Unitary Enterprise (PUE) is structurally the better vehicle — and those […]
When foreign founders consider Belarus, most hear about the High-Tech Park first. The IT, software, and crypto path that has been the country’s flagship preferential regime since 2005. Fewer hear about the second major preferential regime — the one that sits 25 km from Minsk, between the international airport and the Berlin-Moscow highway, on roughly […]
You’re registering a Belarusian company. Someone has handed you a checklist. Commercial register extract. Charter. Director’s authority. Power of attorney. Passport. All to be “apostilled and translated.” Sounds simple. It isn’t — not because the rules are obscure, but because almost every founder we work with gets at least one document wrong on the first […]
Do you want to add more capital into your Belarusian company and you want to do it the right way? Or the opposite — there’s too much capital sitting in the charter and someone needs that pulled back out. Or your accountant just dropped a calm-sounding sentence into a Tuesday meeting: net assets at year-end […]
You want to register a Belarusian company. You don’t want to spend three days flying in and out of Minsk to do it. Good news — you don’t have to. A properly drafted power of attorney lets a Belarusian representative handle the entire process. Submission, notarisation, state filings, certificate collection. The whole thing. The catch […]
This is the conversation we have with foreign founders who, once the organisational form is settled, open the next part of the meeting with a sentence that begins something like “about that 6% tax…”. The 6% rate exists. It is real. The Tax Code defines it precisely, and the Ministry of Taxes and publishes its […]
This article is the naming conversation we have with foreign founders, CFOs, and corporate counsel after the form decision is settled — LLC, CJSC, or Unitary Enterprise — but before the founding documents go to the notary. The form is fixed; the name is now the gating item, and the document set cannot move forward […]
You have your first Belarusian hire lined up. The candidate accepted last week, the offer letter says USD 1,750 a month gross, and you are feeling reasonably good about how the hiring plan stacks up against the runway. Then your accountant sends the loaded-cost figure for that same hire — and it is materially higher […]
This article is the conversation we have with foreign founders, CFOs, and corporate counsel who arrive at our Minsk office having already chosen Belarus and now need to pick the form. Our practice leans toward LLC engagements simply because the LLC is the right answer for most readers — that bias is real and worth […]
Short answer: for most foreign owners of a clean operating business in Belarus, a share sale is faster, cheaper on tax, and easier on the buyer than an asset sale. There are real exceptions to that, though — and one of them, the 2024 suspension of treaty benefits for sellers in “unfriendly” jurisdictions, has changed […]
You have a Belarusian LLC. The accounting is set up, the bank account is open, and the team is starting to ramp. Sooner or later — usually sooner — somebody on the call mentions HTP, and the room divides between people who understand exactly what that means and people who do not. The first group […]
