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 […]
By international standards, registering a company in Belarus is remarkably quick — often a matter of days. That speed can be misleading. The registration certificate marks the start of the work, not the end of it: the first twelve months bring a sequence of steps and deadlines that are easy to miss if you assume […]
On 28 September 2026, Belarus’s Hi-Tech Park (HTP) registered its first two “crypto-banks” — a status with no equivalent in most countries. Most readers will assume one of two things: that a crypto-bank is just a crypto exchange with a grander name, or that it’s an ordinary bank that happens to hold crypto. It is […]
Here is a question almost no one asks at the right time: if a deal in Belarus goes wrong, where will the fight actually happen? The honest answer is that it was usually settled long before any dispute arose — in a single clause of the contract or the company’s charter, often pasted in without […]
When foreign investors hear “Great Stone Industrial Park”, two assumptions usually follow, and both are wrong in ways that matter. The first is that it is a Chinese-only zone: it is the China–Belarus park, so surely it is meant for Chinese companies. The second is that it is just another free economic zone (FEZ), like […]
Foreign investors weighing up the EAEU tend to take one of two shortcuts: they treat the member states as interchangeable (“it’s all the EAEU”), or they default to the biggest and go straight to Russia. Both miss what actually matters. The EAEU is a single market: set up in any one member state and your […]
A foreign-owned Belarusian company doing cross-border business keeps hitting the same wall in 2026: payments that used to be routine now bounce, sit in limbo or come back rejected weeks later. The instinct is to blame its own bank, or to go hunting for “a corridor that still works”, as if the problem were finding […]
Foreign owners choose a Belarusian LLC for the same reason people choose limited companies everywhere: limited liability — the expectation that whatever happens to the company, their personal assets are safe, and that the director is simply an employee behind the same shield. In Belarus that protection is real, but it is not absolute, and […]
Foreign owners of Belarusian companies tend to arrive with one of two misconceptions about audit: either that every company is audited annually, as some home jurisdictions require, or that “audit” is just another word for the tax authority coming to check the books. In Belarus, neither is true. Statutory audit is targeted, not universal. Most […]
