Setting up a company in Cyprus, step by step
From choosing a structure to your first VAT return, the real sequence of starting a Cyprus company, with the forms, authorities and figures that actually apply.
The Autumn IssueProperty · The Cover Story
Limassol's marina towers redraw the skyline
The city's seafront is becoming an address, and the numbers are following the view.
The Edit
This week on the island
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Business
Tax and VAT in Cyprus: what residents and businesses owe
The income tax bands, the VAT thresholds and the filing deadlines that decide your year, set out plainly and with the current figures.
The Cyprus Lifestyle Desk
02
Relocation
Moving to Cyprus: the complete relocation roadmap
From the paperwork you start before you fly to the day your utilities are in your name — a calm, ordered path to settling in the Republic of Cyprus.
The Cyprus Lifestyle Desk
03
Relocation
Buying or renting property in Cyprus: which suits you
Rent first to learn the island, or buy to put down roots — the honest trade-offs, and how to do either without missteps.
The Cyprus Lifestyle Desk
Property & Design
Houses, and the lives inside them
Understanding the Cyprus property market
Where the value is, how prices move by district, and what a first-time buyer should know before falling for a sea view.
New-build or resale: choosing your Cyprus home
Shiny and turnkey, or characterful and ready today — the honest trade-offs between buying new and buying existing.
We cover the island the way you would want to live it — slowly, and well.
The Cyprus Lifestyle Manifesto
Culture & the Arts
What the island is making, and remembering
The Cyprus meze: a table that tells the island's story
Not a starter but a whole philosophy of eating — how the long Cypriot table became the truest introduction to the island.
Commandaria: the world's oldest named wine
A sweet amber wine made on the same slopes since antiquity — and still poured at Cypriot celebrations today.
Bayeux mix opens in London, and an old argument resurfaces
The 70-metre embroidery has crossed the Channel for a London exhibition, reviving a century-old dispute over whether it was ever made in Normandy at all.
Escapes
The island, off the itinerary
The Akamas: Cyprus's last wild peninsula
No resorts, no straight roads — just gorges, sea caves and a lagoon the colour of a jewel.
A weekend in the Troodos mountains
Cooler air, stone villages, wineries and pine forest — the Cyprus that most beach visitors never meet.
The Saturday Letter
The week on the island, chosen and written by our editors — property, culture and the good life, in one considered email.
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