Register a company in Armenia, the relocation republic.

Yes - fully: registration runs on an apostilled power of attorney in one to three days, and several banks onboard remotely with video KYC. Relocating founders visit for residence permits; pure holding or team structures need not visit at all. Armenia is one of the few genuinely remote-complete jurisdictions.

Turnkey registration starts from $1,900; with banking from $3,400. Renewals with accounting run from $1,200 a year - Caucasus pricing for a setup that behaves like a European one.

No - and we say it plainly because the internet has not caught up: the certified-IT regime with 0% profit tax expired on 31 December 2023. What exists now: the standard 18% rate, turnover regimes of roughly 1-5% for smaller companies, and a successor high-tech framework with targeted incentives - R&D payroll relief, support for returning specialists. Still one of the region's best IT deals; no longer a blanket zero, and anyone promising otherwise is selling 2022.

Standard: 18% profit tax, VAT at 20% above the threshold, payroll income tax at a flat 20%, social payments modest. Smaller businesses elect turnover taxation at roughly 1-5% of revenue instead of profit tax and VAT - often the better deal below the threshold. Dividends out: 5%, with no currency controls in the way. The regime election at registration is the whole strategy.

Duty-free goods access to the 190-million Eurasian union on one side; the EU's Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement plus GSP+ trade preferences on the other. Few countries hold both doors. For trading businesses it means routing options; for services and IT it means an unusually neutral base between blocs - with the sanctions-era caveat that documentation must always show which lane you are in.

Modern and competent - Ameriabank and peers run apps and service most EU banks would envy - with one serious caveat: sanctions-era scrutiny of Russia-linked flows is real and has tightened repeatedly. Russian cards, counterparties and transit patterns face declines and questions; clean international business onboards smoothly. We build the file for the compliance climate that exists, and it works.

Surprisingly firm - the relocation inflows strengthened it, and it has held its ground since. There are no currency controls: dram, dollar and euro accounts convert and transfer freely. Treasury practice is standard multi-currency hygiene rather than crisis planning - a sentence we cannot write about most of the region.

Armenia adopted a licensing framework under central-bank supervision - exchanges and service providers now operate under real authorisation with capital and compliance requirements rather than in a grey zone. We scope crypto projects as licensed ventures with their own timeline, alongside the ordinary LLC this page describes.

Speed, taxes and talent, in that order: a company in days, engineers across the street, a 5% exit, and a state that visibly wanted them. The wave matured into an ecosystem - schools, offices, funds - that outlived the emergency that started it. Late arrivals still find the same fundamentals; they just find them calmly now.

The company: one to three days, genuinely. Banking: one to two weeks. Residence permits: two to six weeks for those relocating. A working, banked Armenian operation inside two to three weeks is the repeatable default - the fastest full setup in this section of the catalogue.