This article is a working compliance calendar for a Belarusian company — a one-page reference for the major filings a typical foreign-owned subsidiary makes each year. The promise in the title needs a small caveat up front: filings genuinely vary by company circumstances (tax regime, VAT registration status, company size, industry), so no single calendar […]
A foreign-owned Belarusian subsidiary now sits between two compliance regimes that don’t always agree. The parent operates under the sanctions law of its home country — EU restrictive measures, US OFAC programmes, UK financial sanctions. The subsidiary operates under Belarusian law, which since 2022 has built its own counter-measures aimed at owners from the same […]
It’s a Tuesday in October. Your accountant in Minsk forwards three filing reminders before 10am. The bank wants beneficial-ownership confirmation by Friday. A tax-authority letter has been at the legal address for eleven days, and nobody has opened it. None of this was on your radar this morning. Most months your Belarusian subsidiary doesn’t appear […]
You’ve trademarked your brand back home. Maybe you’ve also got it covered across half of Europe. Useful work. None of it does anything for you in Belarus yet. That’s because Belarus runs on first-to-file. Whoever lodges an application at the National Center of Intellectual Property in Minsk first gets the rights here. Your brand might […]
You’ve had a good year, your Belarusian company has profit to spare, and you’d like to take some of it home as a dividend. Simple enough — until you ask two questions that people tend to blur into one. How much tax comes off the top? And, increasingly, can you actually move the money out […]
You set up a Belarusian subsidiary a few years ago, and now — for whatever reason — you want out. On paper, selling your stake looks like any other share deal: agree a price, sign the contract, update the register. In today’s Belarus, that picture is misleading, and acting on it can leave you with […]
Few procedures in Belarusian corporate practice offer the flexibility of reorganization. It can change a company’s legal form, merge related entities, hive off a business line, or absorb one company into another, with full legal succession preserved at each step. For foreign investors and Belarusian owners alike, it is often the cleanest way to move […]
In January 2026, Belarus did something most jurisdictions still haven’t done. It legally recognised “crypto banks” as a distinct category — joint-stock companies that combine traditional banking services with digital token operations under unified state supervision. Decree No. 19 of January 16, 2026, created the new legal category, set the dual oversight model — HTP […]
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 […]
