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Getting into the Hi-Tech Park was the hard part \u2014 the business project, the review, the Supervisory Board’s yes. So it’s easy to treat residency as done and move on. It isn’t. HTP status is conditional, and it can be taken away.<\/p>\n\n

That matters because of everything attached to it. The HTP regime<\/a> is the reason your profit tax is zero and your social contributions are capped \u2014 lose the status and you lose the lot. And here’s the part that catches people out: the usual cause isn’t fraud or some dramatic breach. It’s drift.<\/p>\n\n

This is a plain guide to what actually gets a company excluded, what it costs, and the simple routine that keeps you safely inside.<\/p>\n\n

Who decides \u2014 and how exclusion works<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

HTP residency is granted by the Supervisory Board, and the same body can revoke it. Residents are registered<\/a> on a Board decision, and status can be terminated on one too. The Board’s Secretariat handles the day-to-day: monitoring residents, coordinating with the tax and other authorities, and carrying out decisions.<\/p>\n\n

The monitoring isn’t meant to be punitive \u2014 it’s there to keep one set of rules across the Park. But it does mean someone is watching whether your activity, your reporting, and your payments line up with the regime. When they don’t, the Board can review the case and, in the worst outcome, end your status.<\/p>\n\n

A review usually isn’t a guillotine, though. When something looks off, the Secretariat can raise it, ask for data, or flag a discrepancy, and there’s normally a window to explain or put it right before anything reaches the point of losing status. That’s worth knowing, because the worst outcomes tend to land on companies that ignore the signals \u2014 not on the ones that engage with them.<\/p>\n\n

The main grounds for losing residency<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

Most exclusions trace back to a short list of causes. None of them is exotic, and several are the kind of thing a busy, well-meaning company can slide into without noticing.<\/p>\n\n

Ground for exclusion<\/strong><\/th>What it means in practice<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Activity drift<\/td>Doing work outside the permitted IT\/high-tech list inside the resident company<\/td><\/tr>
No real substance<\/td>Not actually carrying out the business project you were admitted on, or lacking genuine IT activity<\/td><\/tr>
Missed reporting<\/td>Failing to file the annual report to the HTP administration, or skipping the mandatory annual audit<\/td><\/tr>
Unpaid obligations<\/td>Not paying the quarterly 1% deduction to the administration, or other required dues<\/td><\/tr>
Inaccurate information<\/td>Providing false or misleading data, or opaque ownership under AML\/KYC checks<\/td><\/tr>
Voluntary or structural<\/td>Withdrawal, liquidation, or reorganisation<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n

These grounds sit in the HTP Decree and the Regulation on the Park, and both can be amended \u2014 so treat the table as the shape of the risk, not the last word, and check the current rules<\/a> against your own situation. The one worth dwelling on is the first.<\/p>\n\n

The one that catches good companies: activity drift<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

An HTP resident is only allowed to do the IT and high-tech work on the Park’s permitted list<\/a>. That sounds obvious until a growing company starts doing more. You bolt a hardware add-on onto the software. You take on paid consulting that isn’t quite in scope. You resell a third-party service. Each looks small; together they put revenue where it doesn’t belong.<\/p>\n\n

That’s activity drift, and it’s the most common way solid companies get into trouble \u2014 not because they broke a rule on purpose, but because the business outgrew the box without anyone re-checking the box. The fix is simple in principle: keep non-IT lines out of the resident entity. Run them through a separate company, and the HTP one stays clean.<\/p>\n\n

A concrete version: a studio admitted for software development wins a lucrative contract to also supply and install the hardware its product runs on. The hardware side is real business and perfectly legal \u2014 it just isn’t HTP activity. Invoiced through the resident company, it muddies the picture; invoiced through a mother company, it’s a non-issue. The lesson isn’t \u201cdon’t grow\u201d \u2014 it’s \u201cgrow in the right box.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

It’s worth remembering what’s on the line, too. The Park’s tax benefits<\/a> apply to the resident and its qualifying activity, so letting non-qualifying work creep in doesn’t just risk that slice of revenue \u2014 it puts the whole status, and every benefit that comes with it, at risk.<\/p>\n\n

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What losing status actually costs<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

Lose the status and you become an ordinary Belarusian company overnight. That means the standard tax regime<\/a> \u2014 profit tax, VAT, the full social-contribution base \u2014 with none of the HTP relief you’d built your numbers around.<\/p>\n\n

The sting isn’t only forward-looking. Losing status can mean your tax position is recalculated without the exemptions for the period the problem covers, so a quiet breach can turn into a bill for tax you thought you’d never owe. The exact exposure depends on the case and the current rules, which is precisely why you don’t want to find out the hard way.<\/p>\n\n

Put concretely: profit that had been taxed at zero could be reassessed at the standard rate, and salary costs that enjoyed the contribution cap could be recomputed on the full base. Across several months, on a real payroll, that adds up fast \u2014 which is how a drift that felt minor at the time produces a distinctly non-minor bill.<\/p>\n\n

There’s paperwork on the way out, as well: a company that loses status mid-year still has to report for the part of the year<\/a> it was a resident. And the softer cost is real \u2014 banks, partners, and clients notice when a company’s regime changes under it.<\/p>\n\n

How to stay compliant \u2014 the routine that keeps you in<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

The good news is that staying in is mostly routine, not luck. Most of it is clean accounting and the mandatory audit<\/a> done on time, plus the habit of checking that what you do still matches what you’re allowed to do. Build these into the calendar and exclusion stops being a live risk:<\/p>\n\n