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 […]
Most foreign buyers compare EOR proposals on the headline fee — “15–25% of gross salary” or “$400–700 per employee per month” — and assume that’s the cost. It isn’t. A typical EOR engagement in Belarus involves at least eight cost categories beyond the headline fee, most of them legitimate, most of them not disclosed during […]
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 […]
HTP residency comes with a year that has its own rhythm. Quarterly payments, an annual audit, ongoing administrative interactions — none of it is exotic, but all of it lands on specific dates that don’t move. Foreign clients who plan around the calendar are calm. The ones who don’t spend the year reacting to deadlines […]
The first thing most foreign founders learn about EOR in Belarus is that it works beautifully for the first hire. The second thing — usually 12–18 months later — is that the model that worked for one person doesn’t necessarily scale cleanly to ten. And by the time the team passes twenty-five, the structure that […]
“We could qualify for HTP — but should we?” It’s one of the most common structural questions foreign founders ask once their Belarusian entity setup gets serious. HTP residency is usually presented as the obvious answer, but the actual math depends on three variables: team size, profit margin, and operational complexity. For some companies, HTP […]
There’s no at-will employment in Belarus. The first thing foreign clients learn — usually the hard way — is that termination isn’t a manager’s decision. It’s a legal procedure with specific grounds, specific documentation, specific notice (or specific compensation in lieu), and a specific final settlement on the dismissal day. The good news is that […]
If you’re looking at Belarus as a place to build a tech operation, the High-Tech Park (HTP) regime is almost certainly part of the conversation. The tax benefits — 0% profit tax, 0% VAT on qualifying activity, a capped FSZN base — are the headline. But before any of that math runs, there’s a question […]
When you hire a developer in Belarus through an EOR, the salary you fund is only part of the picture. Your employee also receives a package of statutory contributions, statutory leave, and — depending on how you structure the engagement — discretionary benefits on top. The package shapes how attractive your offer is locally, what […]
Your Belarusian entity signs with a PEO. The provider takes over payroll calculation, files the returns, runs the bank transfers, and produces clean monthly reports. It feels like the tax exposure went with the workload. It didn’t. In Belarus, what’s marketed as “co-employment” or “shared employer responsibilities” is administrative outsourcing. The legal employer is still […]
