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 […]
Here’s something that surprises most people looking at Eastern Europe for the first time: registering a company in Belarus costs around €10 in state fees. The process, if everything is in order, takes one to two business days. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a special deal — that’s just how it works. The […]
Tax is usually the last thing investors think about when they’re looking at Belarus. Registration fees, timelines, whether you need a local partner — those questions come first. By the time someone asks about the tax picture, they’ve sometimes already decided on a structure that limits their options. That’s the wrong order, and it costs […]
Yes. A foreigner can own 100% of a Belarusian company. No Belarusian partner. No government stake. No mandatory local shareholder hiding somewhere in the charter. It’s a reasonable question to want confirmed, because plenty of countries in this part of the world don’t work that way — and investors who’ve looked at Ukraine, Kazakhstan, or […]
The registration itself takes one business day. Submit before 13:00 and the certificate comes out the same day. Submit after 13:00 and it’s the next morning. That part is genuinely fast — faster than most countries in the region. The realistic end-to-end timeline for a foreign founder is 3 to 6 weeks. Nearly all of […]
You’ve registered the company. Now nothing moves until the bank account is open — no incoming payments, no payroll, no settling with suppliers. For foreign founders, this step is usually harder than the registration itself. Not dramatically harder, but less predictable. Each bank makes its own compliance call, and not every bank is the right […]
The registration procedure itself doesn’t change much when there are two or three founders instead of one. You get a founders’ meeting protocol instead of a single decision, and more documents to collect. That’s roughly it. Where things actually get complicated is before any of that — in the conversations between partners that need to […]
Every company registered in Belarus needs a legal address. Not a headquarters, not a branded office — an address. For a foreign founder without premises in the country, this is usually the first practical obstacle that comes up when researching company registration. A virtual office is how most of them solve it. This article explains […]
The registration itself is fast. One to three business days once everything is submitted. The part nobody warns you about is the two or three weeks before that — tracking down the right documents, getting them legalised, finding a certified translator. That’s where founders lose time. This guide covers what you actually need. Not a […]
Belarus legalised cryptocurrency back in 2017 — among the first countries in the world to do so. Since then, the legislation has been updated several times, and the picture in 2026 looks different from when the first rules were introduced. Crypto business in Belarus is a real option, but with clear rules: what’s allowed, what […]
