A foreign manufacturer has been selling into Belarus through an independent distributor for years, and the arrangement has run its course. They want their own people in-country. They want to invoice Belarusian customers directly instead of through a middleman taking a margin. Two advisers have told them to open a representative office, and someone has […]
A foreign company is going into business with a Belarusian partner. The local side brings the things that are hard to import — market access, a customer base, licences, premises, people who know how the sector works locally. The foreign side brings capital and technology. They have agreed the shape of it: the foreign investor […]
A foreign owner of a profitable Belarusian trading company asks what looks like the simplest question in the file: what is our tax rate? The honest answer is that there is no single number, and the gap between the number the owner has in mind and the amount that actually leaves the business is where […]
Three Belarusian entities under common foreign ownership, acquired at different times and for different reasons. One manufactures components. One imports and distributes. One holds the warehouse and the land beneath it. Each has its own director, its own accountant, and its own bank. Cash is stranded in the wrong entity roughly once a quarter. The […]
Two contacts in the same month. The first: an Israeli-American IT founder running a forty-person team serving Middle Eastern and Indian fintech clients, weighing whether to move the operating company from Tel Aviv to Minsk or to a freezone in Dubai. The second: a Russian-Belarusian dual citizen who runs a manufacturing operation supplying EAEU automotive […]
A Dutch tech founder running a thirty-person engineering team in Minsk through a foreign parent. The economics work — the developer salaries are competitive and the talent is real — but the corporate income tax exposure on the development cost is significant, and the social security loading on senior developer compensation adds another layer. The […]
A founder is mapping jurisdictions for a token issuance platform. UAE is on the board. Lithuania. Belarus. Georgia. Maybe Kazakhstan AIFC. Belarus reads well on the first screen: an early-mover position in crypto regulation, generous tax treatment under the Hi-Tech Park residency program, and a clean legal framework via Decree No. 8 of 2017. Then […]
“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 […]
