KNOWLEDGE CENTER
In-depth guides on Montenegro investment, company formation, and international law.
Investment
18 August 2026: the legalization deadline moved, Turkish citizens' visa-free travel ends 1 November, two EU chapters closed — and what doesn't matter.
Citizenship
The annotation's removal, the sale-back trap that outlives it, the 3-year VAT and 5-year tax clocks that don't match the hold, and moving the money out.
Montenegro Labor Law
Using an agency to staff a Montenegrin operation does not move the obligations off your company. What stays with the user employer, by article and fine.
Real Estate
Turkey applies its own law to Turkish immovables; Montenegro asks where you lived and lets you choose. Two probates, two forced-share regimes, one plan.
Real Estate
What an unlegalised Montenegrin building really costs its buyer — the statutory fee stack, the annual charge, and the clauses that protect a purchase.
Tax
15%, annually, on sale price minus documented basis — and your basis file is built on the day you buy. The exemptions, the deadlines, the treaty layer.
Real Estate
Which law governs your Montenegrin apartment at death, what the forced shares are, whether your foreign will works, and how probate actually runs.
Citizenship
Whoever your lawyer is and however you found them, the statute gives every client the same floor: loyalty, confidentiality, conflicts, your file, your PoA.
Real Estate
At least one side must pay through a Montenegrin account, the notary must see proof, and cash stops at €10,000. The compliant funds flow, in sequence.
Real Estate
Signing a clean protocol quietly waives visible-defect claims — and the statutory clocks are short. The windows, the 10-year soundness rule, the script.
Investment
A guarantee is only as good as the entity that signed it. The statutory kondo and mixed models, the promisor question, the deduction waterfall, the exits.
Tax
Progressive transfer tax or 21% VAT — never both. The bands in force since 2024, who files, the 15-day deadline, and the under-declared price trap.
