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Exploring new markets - Belarus Help Desk

Responding to an increased interest from the clients towards opening investment opportunities in Belarus, Raidla Lejins & Norcous launched a Belarus Help Desk. In order to provide generic law advice and help clients to arrange for the best available legal assistance in Belarus, we have employed Belarus qualified associate lawyers residing and working in Vilnius office.

We have compiled a variety of material on legal aspects for doing business in Belarus.
I In Exploring new markets: DOING BUSINESS IN BELARUS Newsflash you will find:
Legal environment for doing business in Belarus
• Belarus President abolishes the “golden share” rule
• Preferential regime for investments in small towns
• Guarantees for residents of free economic zones
• Beginning of privatization of some of the largest state-owned companies
• Investment in the banking sector
• To start a business becomes easier in Belarus
• Government liberalizes pricing
• Government takes measures to stir up the stock market
• Preferential regime for businesses in small towns
• Preferential regime for a “fair participant of foreign economic activity”
• Taxpayers will have to pay certain taxes and submit tax returns rarer
• Amendments into VAT Law
• Procedure of land acquisition by citizens became easier

Economic relations with foreign states
• Dramatic increase in turnover with Lithuania
• Energy conflict with Russian Federation
• Belarus ratified the Agreement on trade and economic cooperation with Venezuela

You may read the Newsflash HERE


II In PRIVATIZATION IN BELARUS Newsflash you will find:

• The process of privatization liberalized
• Types of privatization
• New rules for privatization
• Companies to be privatized
• Advantages to investors-purchasers of unprofitable state enterprise

You may read the Newsflash HERE

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