Plenty of foreign companies want a soft landing in Belarus — an office, a local face, a way to start — and the representative office looks like exactly that. It is the low-commitment option, and for the right purpose it is a genuinely good one. But it comes with a hard limit that catches people […]
A foreign company setting up in Belarus usually arrives with the decision half-made: register a subsidiary, an LLC, and get on with it. Sometimes that is exactly right. But there are four ways to establish here — an LLC, a joint-stock company, a branch, or a representative office — and they are not four flavours […]
There is a version of entering the Belarusian market that skips the registration queue entirely: you buy a company that already exists. It comes with its licences, its contracts, its bank relationships and its trading history — everything a new company would have to build from scratch. On paper it looks like the fast route. […]
Foreign founders tend to reach for the single-member LLC almost automatically, and the appeal is obvious. It’s all yours. Every decision is yours. There’s nobody to negotiate with and no meeting to sit through. For a lot of businesses that’s the right call, and we set these up all the time. What that same simplicity […]
If you have set up a company across a border before, you know the drill: apostilles, sworn translations, a work permit for the director, maybe a local nominee to satisfy some rule. A Russian citizen opening a Belarusian LLC can brace for all of that and then find that almost none of it applies. The […]
Your Belarusian company had a good year. The profit is in the corporate account, and you want it home, in your own hands and your own currency. The obvious move is to declare a dividend. For many foreign owners in 2026, the obvious move is now the most expensive one. Taking profit out of Belarus […]
Every week, someone who has just registered a company in Belarus asks us a version of the same question: I own the business and I want to run it myself, so what permit do I need to walk into my own office in Minsk? It sounds like it should have a one-line answer. It does […]
A foreign technology company that wants a development team in Belarus — to build for the group, or to serve its own Western clients — usually arrives at the idea of a High-Tech Park subsidiary through its tax benefits, and usually with a particular picture in mind: a low-cost entity that bills the parent a […]
A foreign company with a Belarusian supplier or customer lined up and a contract ready to sign usually has a quiet question in the background: how much can it really know about the party on the other side? The reassuring answer is: more than it expects. Belarus has a public company register, a counterparty’s details […]
A foreign investor whose Belarusian company is up and running usually approaches the first hire with a single number in mind: the salary they have agreed with the person they want to employ. It is the natural place to start, and it is also where the budgeting most often goes wrong, because the salary is […]
Choosing the form for a Belarusian company, a foreign founder often feels a pull towards the joint-stock company. It sounds more substantial than a limited liability company — more like a real corporation — and there is a quiet assumption that the more formal vehicle must be the better one. It is worth resisting that […]
