When founders look at the post-Soviet space for an engineering base, two destinations come up almost every time: Belarus’s High Tech Park and Armenia’s Engineering City. They get grouped together in pitch decks, slide-deck comparisons, and investor calls — usually under a heading like “tech-friendly jurisdictions.” The grouping is misleading. One is a country-wide tax […]
Closing an HTP-resident company in Belarus isn’t the kind of project you finish in a long afternoon. It’s a regulated multi-stage procedure that touches the tax authority, the social protection fund, the HTP Secretariat, your bank, your employees, and — if you don’t sequence it properly — your personal liability as a director or founder. […]
Every company registered in Belarus needs a virtual office. That part isn’t negotiable — the registration authority won’t process an application without one, and the address sits in the company charter, in the state register, and on every official document the entity ever produces. What is negotiable is how you get it. You can lease […]
For an IT company operating in Belarus, multi-currency isn’t an edge case — it’s the normal week. You invoice a US client in dollars, pay a Lithuanian contractor in euros, settle a marketing bill in Russian rubles, and run domestic payroll in Belarusian rubles before the month closes. Four currencies in fourteen days is a […]
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 […]
