“How much do I need to put into the company?” tends to be the first question a foreign owner asks. The honest answer takes ten minutes. The two-minute version is misleading. Belarusian law lets you register a general-purpose LLC with very little capital. You will not be able to open a bank account, sign a […]
Most readers land on a Belarus Double Tax Treaty cheat sheet looking for one thing: what rate applies to me? In 2026 the honest answer depends on which of three groups your country sits in, and only one of those groups gets a treaty rate at all. If you’re in any of the 27 “unfriendly” […]
Most foreign owners decide on the legal form of their Belarusian company in an afternoon. The director question takes them three months and one banking incident to settle. It looks administrative at first. Tick a box. Sign the founding decision. Move on. Then the bank refuses to release a transfer because the only authorised signatory […]
Two phone calls. The first: your co-founder wants out by the end of the quarter and already has another project lined up. The second: an investor on the other side of the world wants twenty percent of your Belarusian company, and the term sheet is sitting in your inbox. Both calls sound like a one-form […]
This article is a working compliance calendar for a Belarusian company — a one-page reference for the major filings a typical foreign-owned subsidiary makes each year. The promise in the title needs a small caveat up front: filings genuinely vary by company circumstances (tax regime, VAT registration status, company size, industry), so no single calendar […]
A foreign-owned Belarusian subsidiary now sits between two compliance regimes that don’t always agree. The parent operates under the sanctions law of its home country — EU restrictive measures, US OFAC programmes, UK financial sanctions. The subsidiary operates under Belarusian law, which since 2022 has built its own counter-measures aimed at owners from the same […]
It’s a Tuesday in October. Your accountant in Minsk forwards three filing reminders before 10am. The bank wants beneficial-ownership confirmation by Friday. A tax-authority letter has been at the legal address for eleven days, and nobody has opened it. None of this was on your radar this morning. Most months your Belarusian subsidiary doesn’t appear […]
You’ve trademarked your brand back home. Maybe you’ve also got it covered across half of Europe. Useful work. None of it does anything for you in Belarus yet. That’s because Belarus runs on first-to-file. Whoever lodges an application at the National Center of Intellectual Property in Minsk first gets the rights here. Your brand might […]
You’ve had a good year, your Belarusian company has profit to spare, and you’d like to take some of it home as a dividend. Simple enough — until you ask two questions that people tend to blur into one. How much tax comes off the top? And, increasingly, can you actually move the money out […]
You set up a Belarusian subsidiary a few years ago, and now — for whatever reason — you want out. On paper, selling your stake looks like any other share deal: agree a price, sign the contract, update the register. In today’s Belarus, that picture is misleading, and acting on it can leave you with […]
Few procedures in Belarusian corporate practice offer the flexibility of reorganization. It can change a company’s legal form, merge related entities, hive off a business line, or absorb one company into another, with full legal succession preserved at each step. For foreign investors and Belarusian owners alike, it is often the cleanest way to move […]
