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Summary of Doing Business 2018: Belarus

Core Content

The Doing Business 2018 report evaluates the regulatory environment for businesses in 190 economies, focusing on reforms that create jobs. It provides quantitative indicators to measure the ease of doing business and encourages regulatory improvements through benchmarking. The report includes subnational data for selected cities, enabling more detailed analysis of business regulations.

Key Indicators and Data

The report covers the following indicators for business regulation:

• Starting a business
• Dealing with construction permits
• Getting electricity
• Registering property
• Getting credit
• Protecting minority investors
• Paying taxes
• Trading across borders
• Enforcing contracts
• Resolving insolvency
• Labor market regulation

For Belarus, the report focuses on the largest business city, Minsk, and includes data on the distance to frontier (DTF) and ease of doing business rankings.

Belarus Economy Profile

• Region: Europe & Central Asia
• Income Category: Upper middle income
• Population: 9,507,120
• GNI Per Capita (US$): 5,600
• City Covered: Minsk

Starting a Business in Belarus

Overview

• Procedure: 5 procedures for men and women
• Time: 5 days for men and women
• Cost: 0.6% of income per capita
• Paid-in Minimum Capital: 0% of income per capita

Details

1. Pay registration fee at a bank: 1 day, no charge
2. Obtain an approval of the company name: 1 day, no charge
3. Business registration with the State Registry: 1 day, BYN 23
4. Make a company seal: 1 day, BYN 20–40
5. Purchase and register a Book of Registry of Inspections: 1 day, BYN 5

• Legal form: Private Limited Company
• Company size: 10–50 employees, 10 times income per capita start-up capital
• Company deed: 10 pages long
• No minimum paid-in capital requirement in Belarus

Comparators

• Europe & Central Asia average: 5.2 procedures, 10.1 days, 4.4% cost
• OECD high income average: 4.9 procedures, 8.5 days, 3.1% cost
• Overall Best Performer: 1.00 procedures, 0.50 days, 0.00% cost (New Zealand)

Dealing with Construction Permits in Belarus

Overview

• Procedures: 16 procedures
• Time: 115 days
• Cost: 0.7% of warehouse value
• Building quality control index: 13.0 (out of 15)

Details

1. Obtain a decision of the Minsk City Executive Committee: 1 day, no charge
2. Request and obtain technical conditions from the water and sewage authority: 14 days, no charge
3. Request and obtain technical conditions for electricity: 7 days, no charge
4. Request and obtain technical conditions from the natural gas provider Mingaz: 14 days, no charge
5. Request and obtain technical conditions for fire safety: 14 days, no charge

Other Procedures

Additional procedures are required for sanitary epidemiological authority, ecological department, telephone connections, and land use approval. All procedures can be completed in parallel.

Comparators

• Europe & Central Asia average: 16.0 procedures, 168.3 days, 4.0% cost
• OECD high income average: 12.5 procedures, 154.6 days, 1.6% cost
• Overall Best Performer: 7.00 procedures, 27.5 days, 0.10% cost (Denmark)

Key Information

• The distance to frontier (DTF) measure compares each economy to the best performance observed since 2005, on a scale from 0 to 100.
• Ease of doing business ranking is determined by sorting the DTF scores of each economy.
• The Doing Business project aims to provide objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement to help economies improve regulatory efficiency.
• The report encourages reform and serves as a resource for academics, journalists, and the private sector to understand and improve the business climate in each economy.