1. IT-sector of the republic of Belarus
THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR MARKETING OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS of
THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

2. Developing digital economy in Belarus2
Developing digital economy in Belarus
Belarus Hi-Tech Park was created in 2005
Provides services globally to 60+ of Fortune’s 200 largest companies
HTP residents with foreign or joint ownership amount to 59% of the total number of resident companies (192)
91% of the software products of HTP are exported
Preferential regime for resident companies:
favorable tax regime till 2049
exterritorial principle of registration
access to qualified workforce

3. Developing digital economy in Belarus3
Developing digital economy in Belarus
Digital Economy Development Ordinance
enables unprecedented conditions for companies of the Hi-Tech Park and provides the country with a boost for creating a 21st-century digital economy
New kinds of activities for HTP residents
development of biotechnologies, medical, aviation and space technologies, cybersport
Legalization of ICO, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts
comprehensive regulations for business based in blockchain technology
Conditions to encourage development of product-oriented IT companies
Maximum simplification of regulations for HTP residents
Implementation of several English law components

4. HIGH-TECH PARK Today Hi-Tech Park provides the following tax benefits4
HIGH-TECH PARK
Today Hi-Tech Park provides the following tax benefits
Exemption from income tax and VAT
Instead, the HTP residents pay 1% of gross revenue in favor of the HTP Administration
Foreign organizations, which provide marketing, advertising, consulting and some other services to HTP residents also don’t have to pay VAT
Reduced rate of income tax for individual entrepreneurs, as well as reduced payments to the Social Protection Fund
The income tax is 9% and the payments to the Social Protection Fund are calculated from the average salary in the country, not from the actual (it is 3-4 times cheaper)

5. 5
HIGH-TECH PARK
Companies of the following fields of activities may become residents of the Hi-Tech Park
Design, development, support, sale, maintenance of software and (or) firmware based on or using the Blockchain and distributed databases
Creation, training of neural networks and other algorithms in the specialized sections
of artificial Intelligence, and implementation of the results of this activity
Development, support, maintenance and production of unmanned vehicle driving
systems, development or separate development stages of medical technologies
Outsourcing of business processes
Software publishing and promotion, mining, cryptocurrencies exchange activity, cryptocurrency converter activity, other activities using tokens, cybersports

6. HIGH-TECH PARK Belarus has become a leading Eastern European IT-hub 6
IT sector highlights
32.600
Export of HTP residents, mln USD
software engineers employed in the IT sector of the HTP
15%
16%
14%
1203.1
> 1 bln USD
957.5
HTP software and IT-services export in 2017 5%
>20X 2%
274.1
increase of exports between 2006 and 2017
95.7
47.9
Top 9
in Primary Locations for Outsourcing and Service Delivery Centres according to EMEA

7. IT-INDUSTRY OF BELARUS Examples of the most successful IT projects7
Examples of the most successful IT projects
Messenger app Viber was developed in Belarus, in 2014 Viber Media was acquired by the Japanese company Rakuten
Offline maps service Maps.me was downloaded by more than 65 million people. This app is owned by Mail.ru Group
App for travelers Eightydays.me was nominated the National start-up Award in 2016
App MSQRD allows you to change the appearance in real time videochats. In 2016 the app was acquired by the social network Facebook
SplitMetrcis optimizes the pages of mobile applications in stores, which allows to increase conversion
MMO-game World of Tanks was included in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of players on the same server at the same time – 90 thousand people

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