There is a gap between being allowed to exist and being allowed to trade, and it catches founders out. Registering a company in Belarus gives you a legal entity — a thing that can own, contract and employ. For most businesses that is also permission to start working, and nothing more is needed. But for […]
Here is a number that foreign employers in Belarus almost always get wrong at the planning stage: the cost of a job. They agree a salary with an employee, write it into the budget, and move on — and then discover, once the first payroll runs, that the figure on the payslip is neither what […]
Franchising looks, from the outside, like one of the more portable business models there is. You have a brand that works, a system that works, and you license both to a local operator who runs it under your name. Surely the contract is much the same wherever you go — take the master agreement that […]
Can you run a Belarusian company without ever setting foot in Belarus? A few years ago the honest answer was “not really.” Today it is “mostly yes” — and the gap between those two answers is one of the quieter but more consequential shifts in how a foreign owner can operate here. A company can […]
“We’re going to reorganise the company” sounds like a single, definite thing. In Belarusian law it is nothing of the sort. Reorganisation is not one procedure but a family of five distinct legal forms, each with different consequences — and the choice between them decides the questions that matter most: whether the original company goes […]
Most directors know the moment when money starts to run short: cash is tight, a payment slips, a supplier keeps calling, and a question that seemed unthinkable a quarter ago is suddenly on the table — what happens if the company cannot pay its debts? For most directors, the reassuring answer has always been limited […]
Ask around about doing business cheaply in Belarus, and sooner or later someone will tell you about the countryside. The story has been circulating for more than a decade: register your company in a village or a small town rather than in Minsk, and the tax burden more or less falls away for years. The […]
Signing a lease is often the first serious, long-term commitment a new company makes. Before the first hire, before the first invoice, there is a room with your name on the door — and a contract behind it that can quietly shape your costs and your freedom for years. For a Belarusian company the stakes […]
There are two options into the Belarusian market. You can start a company from scratch — register a new entity, structure it the way you want and build it up — or you can buy an existing one and step into a business that is already up and running. Both routes lead to the same […]
Most foreign founders come to the residence question late. The company is set up, the bank account is open, the business is ready to go — and only then do they realise that owning a Belarusian company does not, by itself, give them the right to live in Belarus and run it. They have been […]
Most foreigners arrive in Belarus with one number in mind with 13% tax. For years that was the whole story — a famously flat personal income tax that made the arithmetic easy. That changed on 1 January 2026, when Belarus replaced the flat rate with a genuinely progressive scale of 13%, 25% and 30%. The […]
