Few days ago I had talks with guys who wanna open outsource software development office in Kiev, Ukraine. After that I tried to summarize my thoughts about what is the best way to do this. Also this will work for any startup-style company who is going to start office in Kiev or in major Ukraine cities. So, let's start from the beginning:
My writeup covers small teams, like 7-12 people, larger teams will have more administrative load
All workers in my model are Ukraine Private Entrepreneurs, category 3 (5% of tax from income) and have direct contracts with HQ office nominated in currency different from UAH.
- prestige place
- can be nice architecture building
- equal path from any disctrict
- expensive
- old planing, old buildings
- no parking or parking lots are expensive to rent
- usually no shower
- no place to park bikes
- sometimes can be issues with internet connection (old communications)
How about business centers ? With them you can run into additional issues like payments for security, only one ISP connection which price can be surprising or minimal rent amount which is usually half of floor or full floor.
- cheaper then downtown
- apartments can be used for office
- if apartment, you will have 1-2 bath's
- parking lots available
- put bike to elevator and bring to apartment hall
- usually 2-3 internet providers available
- very comfort for those who live in that suburb
- when driving or using public transportation, you always going in opposite direction to traffic
- smokers can use balcony
- long way for guys from other districts
- can be issues with neighbors in apartments, if office is illegally converted
- hard to expand if you need increase number of workers
- rental payments
- utilities payments
- internet payments
- cleaning services
- coffee, tea, milk, sugar and other food
- paper, pens and other small stationery
- establish PE's for newcomers
- prepare declarations for PE's
- preparing Act of performing services for banks to be able converting money
- budgeting
- ticketing, hotel allocations, collecting receipts from business travelers
- pre-hiring communications
Need any info about getting into IT business in Ukraine ? Feel free to contact me.