Tax Consulting in Georgia
Georgia’s headline rates are simple. The details are not: residency tests, treaty interaction, permanent establishment risk, and which structure survives contact with your actual client base.
- First consultation
- Free
- Hourly
- ₾250
- Analysis
- 3–5 days
What people actually need tax advice on
Whether the 1% structure survives their client mix. Whether becoming Georgian tax resident helps or hurts, given where they used to pay tax. Whether their home country will treat the Georgian company as theirs anyway under controlled-foreign-company rules. Whether the treaty they are relying on says what they think it says. These are the questions where a wrong answer is expensive, and where a cheap answer is worse than none at all.
- Freelancers and remote workers choosing a structure
- Business owners restructuring as they grow past the 1% cap
- Digital nomads working out where they are actually tax resident
- Investors and traders
- Property owners with Georgian rental income
- Professionals relocating from a high-tax jurisdiction
Georgian tax residency and the 183-day rule
The main test is 183 days of physical presence in Georgia within any rolling 12-month period. There is also a high-net-worth route that does not depend on days. Residency is separate from having a registered business — you can hold Small Business Status without being tax resident, and plenty of people do. What matters is the interaction: becoming Georgian resident only helps if the country you are leaving actually lets you go, and that turns on your citizenship, your remaining ties and the treaty between the two.
Cross-border and treaty work
Georgia has a wide double-tax treaty network, and most of the value in a cross-border engagement is in reading those treaties correctly rather than in the Georgian rates themselves. We look at permanent establishment risk, where your income is genuinely sourced, whether your home country applies CFC rules to a Georgian company you control, and what documentation you will need to hold to defend the position later. Verbal-only advice is not much use in that conversation, so paid engagements come with a written summary.
Pricing
30 minutes, no obligation.
Specific questions, answered, with a written summary afterwards.
A full review of how your business should be set up in Georgia.
Multi-jurisdiction analysis, treaties, residency and permanent establishment risk.
A named advisor on retainer.
Prices exclude 18% VAT where applicable.
How an engagement runs
- 01
Free consultation
30 minutesWe scope the problem and tell you whether you need an hour or a project.
- 02
Analysis
3–5 business daysWe work through your income sources, residency position and the jurisdictions involved.
- 03
Recommendations
1–2 hoursWe present the options with the trade-offs stated, in writing, not just verbally.
- 04
Implementation
We do the registrations, filings and restructuring the plan calls for.
Common questions
The first 30 minutes are free. After that it is ₾250 an hour plus VAT for specific questions with a written summary, from ₾800 for full structure planning, from ₾1,500 for multi-jurisdiction work, or from ₾400 a month on retainer.
The main test is 183 days of physical presence in Georgia within any rolling 12-month period. There is also a high-net-worth route. Residency is separate from having a registered business — you can have one without the other.
Possibly. It depends on your citizenship, your remaining ties and the treaty between the two countries. Some countries release you once you genuinely leave; some tax on citizenship regardless. This is exactly the question worth paying for before you restructure, not after.
Controlled foreign company rules let your home country tax profits of a foreign company you control as if they were yours, regardless of whether you distribute them. Many European countries have them. Whether they bite depends on where you are resident and how the company is genuinely managed.
Yes. Paid consultations come with a written summary. Verbal-only advice is not much use when you need to show a bank, a payment processor or a foreign tax authority your reasoning.
Yes, and it usually produces a better answer. Cross-border planning fails when each side optimises its own half in isolation.
Broadly: Small Business Status if you are a solo service business with low costs and turnover under 500,000 GEL, an LLC if you have partners, are reinvesting profit, need liability separation, or your activity is excluded from the 1% regime. The free consultation exists to answer this properly for your case.
The risk that your activity in another country creates a taxable presence there — an office, a dependent agent, a long enough project — which gives that country the right to tax the associated profit. It is the most common way a clean-looking structure quietly fails.
Yes, and it is a lot of what we do. Wrong activity codes, a structure that never suited the business, or years of unfiled declarations are all fixable, and generally cheaper to fix than to leave.
Not sure this is the right one?
Thirty free minutes with a tax specialist. We will tell you which structure actually fits — including when the answer is that you do not need us.