{"id":4409,"date":"2026-05-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:59:14","slug":"belarus-usn-simplified-taxation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/belarus-usn-simplified-taxation","title":{"rendered":"Simplified Taxation System (USN) in Belarus: Who Qualifies and Whether It Saves Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/div>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/belarus-usn-simplified-taxation\/#The_eligibility_framework\" >The eligibility framework<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/belarus-usn-simplified-taxation\/#Does_the_Simplified_Taxation_System_actually_save_money_Two_worked_examples\" >Does the Simplified Taxation System actually save money? Two worked examples<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/belarus-usn-simplified-taxation\/#The_2026_amendments_worth_knowing\" >The 2026 amendments worth knowing<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/belarus-usn-simplified-taxation\/#When_the_Simplified_Taxation_System_is_the_right_answer_and_when_it_is_not\" >When the Simplified Taxation System is the right answer, and when it is not<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/belarus-usn-simplified-taxation\/#Frequently_asked_questions\" >Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/belarus-usn-simplified-taxation\/#Conclusion\" >Conclusion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>This is the conversation we have with foreign founders who, once the <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/belarus-llc-cjsc-unitary-enterprise-foreign-founders\">organisational form is settled<\/a>, open the next part of the meeting with a sentence that begins something like <em>&#8220;about that 6% tax&#8230;&#8221;<\/em>. The 6% rate exists. It is real. The Tax Code defines it precisely, and the Ministry of Taxes and publishes its parameters every year. What most founders do not realise \u2014 and what almost no third-party article surfaces clearly \u2014 is that the rule limiting eligibility cuts most foreign-corporate-owned subsidiaries out of the regime entirely, before any calculation runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The single most important sentence in this article is in this paragraph: a Belarusian organisation in which more than 25% of the charter fund is held by one or several other organisations \u2014 Belarusian or foreign, in any combination \u2014 cannot apply the Simplified Taxation System. For the standard foreign-founder structure, in which a parent company in Delaware, Cyprus, the Netherlands, or any other jurisdiction holds 100% of a Belarusian subsidiary, the regime is statutorily unavailable. No amount of revenue planning, headcount management, or activity selection changes that conclusion. The foreign-participation rule is a structural choice point at the moment of registration, not a compliance hurdle to be cleared after the fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, the Simplified Taxation System remains genuinely available \u2014 and genuinely valuable \u2014 for a defined set of foreign-owned Belarusian businesses. Single foreign individuals owning a Belarusian LLC or Unitary Enterprise directly, multiple foreign individual co-founders, and mixed structures in which organisational ownership stays at or below 25% are all eligible, subject to the revenue, headcount, and activity rules that this article walks through in the next sections. For those structures, the question becomes the one in the title: does USN actually save money? The answer turns out to be specific, and depends on the margin profile of the business in a way the headline rate completely obscures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The structure of this article is therefore deliberate. The eligibility framework comes first, in enough detail that any reader can determine in five minutes whether the regime applies to them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/118548-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/118548-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/118548-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/118548-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/118548-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/118548.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_eligibility_framework\"><\/span><strong>The eligibility framework<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Four criteria govern the Simplified Taxation System eligibility for organizations in 2026. They are independent \u2014 failing any one of them disqualifies the organisation from the regime \u2014 and each has its own technical detail that matters in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Revenue thresholds.<\/strong> Two figures matter, and they apply at different points. To enter the regime from 1 January of a given year, an organisation&#8217;s gross revenue over the first nine months of the prior year must not exceed a stated cap. For entry on 1 January 2026 the cap is <strong>BYN 2,800,000<\/strong>, raised from the BYN 2,625,000 figure that applied during 2025. To continue applying USN through the year, gross revenue from the start of the year must not exceed <strong>BYN 3,735,000<\/strong>, raised from BYN 3,500,000 with effect from the start of 2026. Crossing the continuing-application threshold mid-year forces the organisation off the regime from the month of crossover, with the consequence that the company reverts to the general regime for the remainder of the calendar year. The transition is mechanical rather than punitive, but the operational mess \u2014 a mid-year accounting break, a VAT recalculation, a shift in declaration filings \u2014 is real and worth designing around for any company expected to grow into the threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Headcount.<\/strong> Average headcount must not exceed <strong>50 employees<\/strong>, calculated on the averaging basis defined in the Tax Code. This rule rarely binds for early-stage operations but becomes a real constraint once a Belarusian technology company starts hiring at any meaningful pace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ownership composition.<\/strong> This is the rule that defines whether the Simplified Taxation System is even on the table for most foreign-owned structures. The Tax Code prohibits the Simplified Taxation System application by organisations in which more than 25% of the charter fund (or, for share-based forms, more than 25% of the shares) is held by one or several other organisations, including foreign organisations and the Republic of Belarus itself. Three points are worth pulling out. First, the 25% is <em>aggregate<\/em> \u2014 multiple organisational owners count together, not individually. Second, the rule applies to <em>organisations<\/em>, not natural persons; a single foreign individual owning 100% of a Belarusian LLC remains eligible. Third, the rule is structural and behavioral irrelevance does not save it: it does not matter that the foreign parent is a small holding vehicle, that the Belarusian subsidiary operates independently in commercial terms, or that the parent has signed off on tax-light operating decisions. If organizational ownership exceeds 25%, USN is simply unavailable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Activity restrictions.<\/strong> A defined list of activities is excluded from the Simplified Taxation System regardless of whether the other three tests are met. Banking and microfinance activity, insurance, professional securities activity, gambling and lottery operations, production and sale of excisable goods, and operations involving cryptocurrency-asset transactions (added to the excluded list with effect from 2025 and retained in 2026) all fall outside the regime. Founders building anything in fintech, regulated finance, or token-related business should check the current text of Article 324 of the Tax Code before assuming the Simplified Taxation System is on the table \u2014 the excluded list has been expanded in recent amendment cycles and is likely to expand again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where any one of the four criteria fails, the Simplified Taxation System is unavailable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which foreign-founder structures actually qualify<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are the configurations in which the foreign-participation test is cleanly cleared, drawn from the structures we work with most often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Single foreign individual as 100% owner of a Belarusian LLC.<\/strong> A natural person \u2014 even one with no Belarusian residency, employment, or tax history \u2014 is not an organisation under the eligibility test. A Belarusian LLC owned 100% by a foreign individual is therefore eligible, subject to the revenue, headcount, and activity rules above. This is one of the two structures we see most often where the Simplified Taxation System actually applies for foreign-origin businesses. The procedural mechanics of the form are covered on our <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/pages\/open-llc-in-belarus\">LLC registration page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Single foreign individual as the founder of a Unitary Enterprise.<\/strong> Same logic, different form. A UE founded by a foreign natural person is eligible, and because the UE is structurally a single-founder vehicle, the 25% test is irrelevant by construction \u2014 there is no second owner against whom the test could fail. The combination of UE and the Simplified Taxation System is the cleanest tax-light configuration we offer to single foreign individuals running a Belarusian operating company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Multiple foreign individuals owning a Belarusian LLC.<\/strong> Eligible. Two foreign individual co-founders splitting an LLC 70\/30, 50\/50, or any other configuration of natural-person interests pass the ownership test, because the test counts organisations, not people. This is the standard structure for two-founder international businesses establishing a Belarusian operating company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mixed natural-person and organisational ownership where the organisational stake is at most 25%.<\/strong> Eligible at the boundary. A Belarusian LLC owned 75% by two foreign individuals and 25% by a foreign holding company sits exactly at the line and qualifies. Cross above the line \u2014 say, 70% individual and 30% organisational \u2014 and eligibility fails immediately. The 25% test is mathematical, and pragmatically the answer for founders who want both a holding company and USN is to cap the holding company&#8217;s stake at 25% and place the remaining 75% with the natural-person founders directly. This works, but it is the kind of structural choice that has to be made at registration; restructuring an already-registered company to bring it inside the Simplified Taxation System is operationally heavier than choosing correctly the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The structures that are not eligible \u2014 and why most foreign-corporate structures fall here.<\/strong> The standard wholly-owned subsidiary structure, in which a foreign parent company holds 100% of a Belarusian LLC, fails the test by definition: 100% organisational ownership exceeds the 25% threshold. The same is true of any structure in which a single foreign organisation holds more than 25% of the charter fund; it does not matter whether the rest is held by individuals or by other organisations. A Belarusian LLC owned 75% by a foreign parent and 25% by a foreign individual, for example, fails (75 &gt; 25). A Belarusian LLC owned 30% by a foreign organisation and 70% by individuals also fails (30 &gt; 25). The rule is mechanical, and there is no &#8220;close enough&#8221; reading of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where the natural ownership pattern would otherwise be a wholly owned organizational subsidiary, and the founder genuinely wants the Simplified Taxation System, the structural options are limited. Either the holding pattern shifts to direct natural-person ownership at registration, or organizational ownership is capped at 25% with the remainder held individually, or the founder accepts that USN is not available and structures the entity for the <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/pages\/open-company-in-belarus\">general regime<\/a> instead. There is no fourth option. The choice is best made before registration; reorganizations after registration are workable but add cost and time that USN-driven savings rarely justify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Does_the_Simplified_Taxation_System_actually_save_money_Two_worked_examples\"><\/span><strong>Does the Simplified Taxation System actually save money? Two worked examples<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The headline 6% rate is on gross revenue, not on profit, and that distinction is the entire reason USN is not universally cheaper than the general regime. For low-margin businesses the rate can be larger in absolute terms than the general regime would charge; for high-margin businesses it can be dramatically smaller. The two profiles below run the math through both cases, with illustrative figures in Belarusian rubles, to make the break-even logic concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Profile A: low-margin trading business.<\/strong> A Belarusian LLC importing consumer electronics, with annual revenue of BYN 2,000,000, cost of goods sold of BYN 1,650,000, and operating expenses of BYN 250,000. Pre-tax profit is BYN 100,000, a 5% net margin \u2014 typical for a trading business operating at scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Simplified Taxation System at the 6% rate, the tax bill is 6% of BYN 2,000,000, or BYN 120,000. The company would pay more in tax than it earned in pre-tax profit. The structural reason is that the Simplified Taxation System is calculated on revenue, not profit, and a low-margin business has a revenue figure many multiples larger than its profit figure. Under the general regime, by contrast, corporate income tax at 20% applies to the BYN 100,000 profit, producing a tax bill of BYN 20,000. VAT mechanics on the revenue and input sides broadly net out for a trading business with comparable input and output VAT, leaving the overall after-tax outcome meaningfully better than the Simplified Taxation System. The conclusion for low-margin trading businesses is direct: the regime almost always costs more than the general system, and the simplification benefit rarely compensates for the absolute cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Profile B: high-margin services business.<\/strong> A Belarusian LLC providing software-development services to foreign clients, with annual revenue of BYN 1,500,000, direct costs of BYN 200,000, and operating expenses (mostly salaries and office) of BYN 600,000. Pre-tax profit is BYN 700,000, a 47% net margin \u2014 typical for a services business with a senior team and modest fixed costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Simplified Taxation System at 6%, the tax bill is 6% of BYN 1,500,000, or BYN 90,000. Under the general regime, corporate income tax at 20% applies to the BYN 700,000 profit, producing a tax bill of BYN 140,000. The general regime here charges roughly 1.5 times what USN does on the income tax line alone, before the VAT and other mechanics layer on. For the high-margin services business, USN saves real money \u2014 and at the boundary of the revenue threshold, the savings can compound to material amounts over several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The break-even logic.<\/strong> The rule of thumb that emerges from running these two profiles is that the Simplified Taxation System beats the general regime when 6% of revenue is less than 20% of profit. Algebraically, that means the regime favours businesses with profit margins above roughly 30%. Below a 30% margin, the general regime becomes more efficient on income tax. This is genuinely a rule of thumb rather than a precise threshold \u2014 VAT mechanics shift the line in either direction depending on input-output mix, salary-related taxes affect the comparison for labour-intensive businesses, and certain industry-specific provisions complicate the picture further. The thirty-percent line is the right starting point for the conversation, not its endpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A note on bookkeeping.<\/strong> Organisations on the Simplified Taxation System with revenue below <strong>BYN 960,000<\/strong> (the 2026 threshold, raised from BYN 900,000) may forgo full bookkeeping and use the simplified income-and-expense ledger; organisations above that threshold must maintain full bookkeeping even on the Simplified Taxation System. The administrative simplification benefit of the Simplified Taxation System is therefore most pronounced at the smallest scale and progressively less differentiating as the business grows toward the BYN 3,735,000 continuing-application cap. By the time a company is using the Simplified Taxation System at the upper end of the revenue scale, the difference in bookkeeping burden between USN and the general regime is small \u2014 the simplification benefit is largely a feature for the early-stage business, not a permanent advantage. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/pages\/accounting-services-in-belarus\">accounting services page<\/a> covers the practical bookkeeping setup for both regimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/42971-1024x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/42971-1024x473.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/42971-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/42971-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/42971-1536x709.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/42971.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_2026_amendments_worth_knowing\"><\/span><strong>The 2026 amendments worth knowing<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tax law in this area has moved every year for the past several cycles, and the 2026 amendments to the Tax Code retained the regime&#8217;s structure while adjusting several of its parameters. The changes worth knowing for foreign founders are short and specific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Revenue thresholds raised across the board.<\/strong> The entry threshold for new Simplified Taxation System applicants moved from BYN 2,625,000 to BYN 2,800,000 of nine-month revenue in the prior year. The continuing-application threshold for organizations already on the Simplified Taxation System moved from BYN 3,500,000 to BYN 3,735,000 of annual revenue. The simplified-bookkeeping threshold moved from BYN 900,000 to BYN 960,000. None of these are dramatic increases, but together they extend the regime to a slightly broader cohort of businesses than 2025&#8217;s parameters allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Refinement of the gross-revenue calculation rules.<\/strong> Organizations transitioning to the Simplified Taxation System from the general regime now use the revenue figures already determined for corporate income tax purposes, rather than recalculating revenue under separate the Simplified Taxation System methodology at the entry point. This is a procedural simplification rather than a substantive change, but it removes a compliance friction point that previously caught companies near the entry threshold. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minfin.gov.by\/en\/\">Ministry of Finance<\/a> publishes the broader fiscal-policy context in which these annual amendments sit, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/egr.gov.by\/\">Unified State Register<\/a> holds the entity-level data that the tax authority cross-references against the USN application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cryptocurrency-related operations remain excluded.<\/strong> The exclusion was added to Article 324 with effect from 2025 in response to Belarus&#8217;s broader move on tokenized assets, and the 2026 cycle retained the exclusion in its current form. The Decree of 16 January 2026 on crypto-banks introduced a separate regulatory framework for the crypto-banking category, specifically, which sits outside the USN framework entirely; founders building in any tokenized-asset business should treat USN as unavailable for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reorganization cases tightened.<\/strong> A successor organization created by merger, division, or spin-off from an organization that lost the Simplified Taxation System eligibility for revenue-cap reasons cannot use the Simplified Taxation System to evade that loss. The provision was added in 2025 and retained in 2026; it closes a previously available restructuring path that some businesses had used to reset their revenue counter. Foreign founders contemplating a corporate reorganization in Belarus should read this rule carefully before assuming the new entity inherits a clean slate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tax law in Belarus moves annually as a matter of routine, and the figures cited in this article are current as of the 2026 amendments. Any tax planning decision that turns on a specific threshold should be checked against the current text of the Tax Code on the <a href=\"https:\/\/pravo.by\/\">national legal portal<\/a> and against the most recent guidance from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nalog.gov.by\/\">Ministry of Taxes and Levies<\/a> before the planning is committed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_the_Simplified_Taxation_System_is_the_right_answer_and_when_it_is_not\"><\/span><strong>When the Simplified Taxation System is the right answer, and when it is not<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Skipping the &#8220;depends on your needs&#8221; framing. Below are direct prescriptions for the situations we encounter most often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Simplified Taxation System <\/strong>is the right answer if the business is a high-margin services or software company with annual revenue comfortably below BYN 3,735,000, headcount comfortably below 50, ownership by natural persons (or organizational ownership capped at 25%), and an activity profile that does not fall on the excluded list. This is the classic case for the regime, and the savings can be substantial \u2014 often in the range of one to two percentage points of revenue per year compared to the general regime, which compounds meaningfully over a multi-year horizon for a profitable services business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Simplified Taxation System <\/strong>is the wrong answer if the business is a low-margin trading or distribution company. The 6% rate on revenue eats up more than the 20% rate on profit would, and the simplification benefit does not compensate. Trading businesses should default to the general regime and accept the additional bookkeeping as the cost of the better tax outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Simplified Taxation System <\/strong>is structurally unavailable if a foreign parent company is the natural majority owner. The 25% organisational-ownership rule controls, and restructuring an existing or planned wholly-owned subsidiary purely to access the Simplified Taxation System is rarely worth the operational cost. Foreign multinationals establishing Belarusian subsidiaries should plan for the general regime, with <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/pages\/it-business-in-belarus\">HTP residency<\/a> as the alternative tax preference for technology-sector entities \u2014 that comparison sits in the FAQ below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Simplified Taxation System <\/strong>deserves a closer second look if the business is at the eligibility margin. Organizational ownership at exactly 25%, revenue at the 80\u201390% mark of the threshold, headcount around 40\u201345 \u2014 the regime is workable in these configurations, but the buffer for growth is thin, and a forced exit a year or two in costs more, in operational terms, than the year&#8217;s the Simplified Taxation System savings would cover. We sometimes recommend the general regime in these borderline cases simply because the runway for staying inside the Simplified Taxation System is too short to justify the setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Simplified Taxation System<\/strong> versus HTP residency for tech businesses is a separate calculation entirely. Belarus High-Tech Park residency carries its own tax regime \u2014 a 5% rate on profit, VAT exemptions on a defined set of operations, and a payroll-tax framework distinct from the general system. For a software company with foreign clients, HTP frequently produces a better outcome than either USN or the general regime. The comparison should be run before defaulting to either system, and we cover it in detail in our <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/pages\/it-company-registration-in-belarus\">tech-company registration page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"hfaq\">\n    <div class=\"hfaq__container\">\n        <div class=\"hfaq__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t            <h2 class=\"hfaq__title title title-lg\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Frequently_asked_questions\"><\/span>Frequently asked questions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t            <div class=\"hfaq__items\">\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">Does the Belarus High-Tech Park regime override the Simplified Taxation System?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It offers an alternative rather than an override.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.park.by\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HTP residents<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> pay corporate income tax on profit at 5% \u2014 significantly lower than the general 20% \u2014 and benefit from VAT exemptions on a defined set of operations and a separate payroll-tax framework. For technology businesses with foreign clients, HTP usually produces a better after-tax outcome than either the Simplified Taxation System or the general regime, and the comparison should be run on the actual numbers before either system is locked in.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">Does VAT apply to organizations on the Simplified Taxation System?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the standard configuration, VAT does not apply to the Simplified Taxation System organisations on their domestic revenue \u2014 the 6% rate substitutes for VAT on those operations. Imports, certain cross-border services, and a handful of other transactions still attract VAT under separate Tax Code provisions, and the worked examples in this article assume the standard configuration applies.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">Can a Unitary Enterprise founded by a foreign legal entity apply the Simplified Taxation System?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No. A foreign legal entity as the sole founder of a UE means 100% organizational ownership, which, by construction, fails the 25% test. The combination of UE and the Simplified Taxation System works only when the founder is a foreign natural person, not a foreign legal entity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">If our parent company restructures to hold less than 25%, can the Belarusian subsidiary apply the Simplified Taxation System?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, but the restructuring must be substantive \u2014 actual transfer of charter-fund participation interests, charter amendments, registry filings \u2014 and must be in place at the start of the relevant tax year. Sham arrangements designed solely to evade the 25% rule are vulnerable to substance-over-form challenges from the tax authority, and the operational cost of a real restructuring should be weighed against the multi-year the Simplified Taxation System savings before committing to the path.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">Is the 6% rate likely to change?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rate has been stable at 6% for several years, and there is no public draft amendment suggesting a change. 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Restructuring after the fact to bring an entity inside the Simplified Taxation System is workable but operationally heavier than choosing correctly at the start, and the savings rarely justify the cleanup. The conversation we are set up to have with founders is exactly that \u2014 an integrated review of organisational form, name, and tax regime, run before the founding documents go to notary, so that the structure that emerges is the one the business actually wants to live inside for the next several years. If you would like to walk through your situation specifically, <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/contacts\">we are reachable here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the conversation we have with foreign founders who, once the organisational form is settled, open the next part of the meeting with a sentence that begins something like &#8220;about that 6% tax&#8230;&#8221;. The 6% rate exists. It is real. 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