For IT companies looking at Belarus, the High-Tech Park is the prize that makes the rest of the paperwork worth doing. A 1% unified tax on revenue, no VAT on exports, zero corporate profit tax on qualifying activity, and payroll contributions tied to the national average wage instead of actual salaries — the combined effect […]
Belarus was one of the first countries in the world to give cryptocurrency a clear legal home, so it’s a fair question for any tech company hiring there: can you simply pay your developers in Bitcoin, USDT, or your own token? The honest answer is “sometimes, in specific ways, and almost never the way people […]
If your company runs an entity, an R&D center, or a team in Belarus, you already know the hard part isn’t the work — it’s moving the money. Paying a local vendor, funding payroll, or receiving revenue used to be a non-event. Since 2022, it can mean delays, returned transfers, and a long list of […]
You’ve signed off on a payment from your Belarusian entity — a software license fee to the parent company, a dividend to shareholders abroad, interest on an intra-group loan — and then someone in finance asks the question that stops the transfer cold: do we need to withhold tax before this leaves the country? For […]
Transfer pricing is rarely the first thing a founder thinks about when setting up an IT operation in Belarus. The conversation usually starts with HTP residency, headline tax rates, payroll, and headcount. Transfer pricing comes up later — usually in one of two ways. The tax authority requests an economic justification form, or a group […]
Hiring engineering, design, or operations talent from Belarus is one of the most cost-effective ways to scale a tech team without diluting quality. The talent pool is deep, English proficiency is strong, and time zones align nicely with EU and Middle Eastern operations. What often gets underestimated is the paperwork on the data-protection side. The […]
Belarus has been sanctioned by Washington, Brussels, and London for almost five years. The framework expanded sharply after February 2022, eased in places under the Trump administration through 2025 and early 2026, and remains divergent across the three jurisdictions. None of that has stopped international companies from hiring engineering and operations talent in Minsk — […]
International companies hiring in Belarus quickly run into the same three-letter alphabet soup: EOR, PEO, and outstaffing. The terms get used interchangeably in proposals, mixed up on calls, and treated as synonyms in vendor pitches. They are not. Each model solves a different problem. Each carries a different price tag, a different compliance profile, and […]
Most companies switch their Employer of Record for the same reason: something has quietly gone wrong for months. Support tickets pile up. Payroll reports arrive with corrections. Compliance updates come from the wrong side of the table — the employee, not the provider. By the time HR raises it internally, the case for change is […]
You’ve decided to hire in Belarus — a small engineering pod, a full R&D center, or your first two people to test the market. Two acronyms come up in every provider call: PEO and EOR. Most guides explain them for the US market, where the distinction means something specific. In Belarus, the trade-off is different, […]
HTP exit is one of the few moments in a Belarusian IT company’s lifecycle where the cost of getting it wrong is structurally larger than the cost of doing it right. The compounding consequences — retroactive tax treatment, residual filing obligations, asset positioning questions, the administrative review attached to exit — can convert a clean […]
PEO is one of the most misunderstood acronyms in international HR. Foreign founders arrive in Belarus expecting US-style co-employment — joint liability, shared workforce, the provider as a legal co-employer. The Belarusian reality is different: the client remains the sole employer of record, and the PEO handles workforce administration as a service provider. The distinction […]
