This is the conversation we have with foreign founders who have read blog posts about the Belarus High-Tech Park and arrive at the meeting with the line “so it’s basically a 0% tax regime, right?” The headline is true. The bill is not zero. The gap between the two is the entire reason this article […]
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 […]
If you have decided to set up a CIS-region operating company and you have been having the same conversation for a few weeks, three names probably keep coming up: Astana, Tbilisi, Minsk. They get bundled together in pitch decks and on advisor calls — “the CIS jurisdictions” — as if picking between them was a […]
You registered your Belarusian company in two days. From day one of operations, you are on the clock for filings — and the country has rules that don’t always look like what you are used to. Two parallel reporting streams, mandatory Russian-language documentation, fixed deadlines that the tax authority does not negotiate, and a real […]
If you have landed on this page, chances are you are weighing your options for setting up shop in Belarus and you keep running into the same three terms: subsidiary, branch, representative office. They sound similar. They are not. Pick the wrong one and you will spend the next year unwinding it. This guide walks […]
Short answer: almost any adult can be the director of a Belarusian company, including a foreigner. The director doesn’t have to be a Belarusian citizen. They don’t have to own the company. They often don’t even need to live in Belarus. Three things trip foreign founders up, though. One of them — the work permit […]
