For a one-person Individual Entrepreneur on small business status, the published monthly rates in this city run from roughly 180 to 350 GEL, before 18% VAT. And most readers of this site should not be paying any of them.
That is the verdict, and it is not a criticism of Tbilisi’s accountants, who are competent and cheap by any European measure. It is a statement about what the monthly fee covers. For a single activity with a handful of invoices a month, the recurring work is one short declaration — the thing this site has already argued you should do yourself. What is worth paying for is the conversation that happens once, at the start, and again whenever your situation changes.
Prices below are what named providers publish on their own websites, read on 4 September 2026. I have no referral arrangement with any of them and this post links to none of them; they are named because a published rate card is a fact you can check, and a “contact us for a quote” is not.
What accountants in Tbilisi publish as monthly rates
Two pricing models are in use, and the difference matters more than the numbers.
Flat, by entity type. The accounting practice bookkeeping.ge publishes a monthly rate card: 200 GEL for an Individual Entrepreneur with small business status, 350 GEL for a standard Individual Entrepreneur, 400 GEL for a non-VAT LLC, 500 GEL for a VAT-registered LLC, and 400 GEL for virtual zone and international company status. Its own note says final pricing varies with transactions, employees and complexity.
Banded, by transaction count. A July 2026 comparison published by TbilisiExperts sets out the tiered cards: Tbilisi Expat’s bands run 180 to 495 GEL for its Lite tier across 10, 11–30 and 31–60 transactions, 315 to 855 GEL for Business, and 675 to 1,305 GEL for Premium; ExpatHub’s equivalents run 250 to 550, 350 to 950, and 750 to 1,450 GEL. The same comparison records flat entity pricing elsewhere in the market at 250 GEL for an Individual Entrepreneur on 1% status and 350 GEL standard.
| What you are | Published monthly, before VAT |
|---|---|
| IE, small business status, few invoices | about 180–250 GEL |
| IE, standard regime | about 350 GEL |
| LLC, not VAT-registered | about 400 GEL |
| LLC, VAT-registered | about 500 GEL |
| Anything with volume (60+ transactions) | quoted individually |
Every rate card quotes exclusive of VAT, which is 18%. A 200 GEL headline is 236 GEL paid. That is the single most common surprise on the first invoice, and it is not a trick — it is simply how professional services are priced here.
What the monthly fee actually covers
Read the inclusions rather than the price. For the small business status tier they are consistent across providers: submitting the monthly declaration, monitoring turnover against the ceiling, keeping the records, and consultations.
Set that against what the work is. A single-activity Individual Entrepreneur with eight invoices a month has one number to report and one payment to make, by the 15th. The declaration takes about fifteen minutes once you have done it twice. You are, for that tier, largely buying the removal of a recurring fifteen-minute task and the reassurance that it happened.
Sometimes that is worth 236 GEL a month. It is worth it if you will otherwise miss it, and some people know themselves well enough to know that. It is not worth it as a default, and it is certainly not worth it because a page told you Georgian tax is complicated. For this specific regime it is not complicated; it is repetitive, which is a different problem with a cheaper solution — a calendar entry.
What is actually worth paying for
The value is not in the monthly filing. It is in three questions, each of which is answered once and then holds for years.
Is your income within the registered activity? The Tax Code’s source rules decide what your 1% is being applied to, and the reasoning is not the one most arrivals bring with them. The source question sets out the shape of it. This is the conversation with the highest value per minute of anything on this list.
Does your structure look like employment? An Individual Entrepreneur serving a single client risks the tax authority treating the fees as wages, taxable at 20% rather than 1% — a risk the tax adviser Gela Barshovi flags directly in his Forbes Georgia guide to registering here. If you have one client, ask before you build a year on the assumption.
Are you about to cross something? The small business ceiling at 500,000 GEL a year, and the VAT registration threshold at 100,000 GEL of taxable turnover in any continuous 12-month period — two different numbers measured over two different periods. A reader growing steadily will meet the second long before the first. What happens the month you cross it.
An hour on those three is worth more than a year of having someone press submit for you. Ask for a consultation rather than a retainer, say what you want to cover, and bring the material: your day count in Georgia, your contracts, your income types listed separately, and your other tax residence if you have one.
When the retainer is genuinely right
Four situations where the monthly fee stops being optional:
- You have employees. Payroll changes the character of the work entirely.
- You are VAT-registered. Also a different job, and one with its own deadlines.
- You run an LLC rather than an Individual Entrepreneur. Real bookkeeping, real accounts. When the company is the right answer is later in this plan.
- You have several distinct activities, or income in several countries. The complexity is real and the fee is small against the cost of getting it wrong.
Outside those four, and for the reader this site is written for — one person, one activity, clients abroad, 1% status — the honest recommendation is an hour of advice at the start and the declaration done yourself.
How to buy the hour well
Ask for a fixed fee for a consultation, in writing, before it happens. Consultation pricing is much less standardised than monthly pricing, and “the first consultation is free” usually means the first sales conversation is free.
Ask what happens between consultations. Some practices answer a short question by email at no charge for existing clients; some do not. That difference is worth more than 50 GEL of headline price.
Ask whether they act for people in your situation specifically — foreign national, Individual Entrepreneur, foreign clients. Most of this city’s practices do. The ones that do not will tell you, and the ones that hesitate have answered the question.
Ask the price with VAT. Every time. It is 18% and it is not in the headline.
Do not buy the registration. Registering the Individual Entrepreneur and applying for small business status are two short applications you can make yourself in a morning — step by step here — and a package that bundles them with advice is charging you for the part that is free in order to sell you the part that is not.
That is the pattern across every working and taxed decision here, and it is the site’s position rather than a neutral observation: in Georgia the administration is cheap and mostly self-service, and the judgement is what costs money and is worth it. Buy the judgement.