Offshore tax in Belarus and Kazakhstan: from calculation to payment
When dealing with foreign markets, companies interact with companies from different territories, including those from offshore jurisdictions. Many countries have approved their own list of such zones.
Unfair Competition in the Use of Intellectual Property Objects: Problems and Ways to Protect a Trademark in Belarus
In the course of carrying out its business activities, the company may face unfair actions of a competitor. One of the common methods of unfair competition is the illegal use by a competitor of a designation that is identical or confusingly similar to the trademark of another business entity. In Belarus, the prohibition on committing such actions is established in the civil and antimonopoly legislation.
Unfair competition in the use of intellectual property objects: problems and ways to protect a trademark
Intellectual property (IP) is one of the most valuable assets of any firm. However, in a world of widespread piracy and strong trends in the illegal use of intellectual property, the registration and protection of intellectual property is of strategic importance to reduce unfair competition.
Enforcement proceedings in Belarus
Enforcement proceedings are a key and defining procedure for collecting debts from any counterparty, because the previous work on negotiations, filing claims, lawsuits and obtaining court decisions in your favor will be worthless without an enforcement procedure.
Enforcement Proceedings
The experience of different states, given in the brochure, will demonstrate the existence of not one, but several ways to overcome the slowness and inefficiency of execution in practice, and also that the possible solutions to the problem are varied, but they all ultimately are based on a delicate balance, along with other things, of the norms of executive the law and practice of their application, a high level of training and responsibility of various professionals involved in the implementation process, as well as the institutional and social systems in which these professionals are forced to carry out their activities.
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Conducting business with companies from offshore zones provides for additional obligations for Belarusian counterparties and requires certain control.
Remote work in Belarus (including remote work of foreign workers)
Chapter 25-1 of The Labor Code of the Republic of Belarus (hereinafter - LC) provides specific regulation of the work of employees performing the remote work.
Remote work (including remote work of foreign workers)
The interaction of the employee and the employer in the conditions of remote work in many jurisdictions is already a very familiar phenomenon. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the gradual transition of labour relations to the digital space, remote work has become the universal response of employers and employees to the external and internal challenges of 2021.
Regulation of «anti-money laundering» legislation in Belarus: compliance with FATF requirements
Belarus aims to comply with the FATF recommendations in the regulation of anti-money laundering issues, despite the fact that Belarus is not a member of the FATF.
Recognition and enforcement of the Polish judgments in Belarus
Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments on the commercial matters against legal entities in Belarus are not rare. If decision of the foreign court is not executed voluntary by the Belarusian debtor than one shall deal with procedure of recognition and enforcement.