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.
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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.
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.
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.
Opening a bank account in Cyprus, without the runaround
What the banks actually ask for, why it takes a little patience, and how to walk in prepared.
Setting up a company in Cyprus, and the IP Box advantage
Why founders and IP-rich businesses look to Cyprus — and how to set up properly, with the right advisors from day one.
Getting licensed: the regulated professions of Cyprus
Roughly 180 activities need a permit before you can trade, from estate agent to pharmacist. Here is how the licence system works and what it takes.
Residency and the non-dom advantage in Cyprus
Why so many international families make Cyprus their base — the residency routes, and the non-dom status that underpins them.
Healthcare in Cyprus: GESY, private care and insurance
How the national system works, when private cover still makes sense, and what to arrange before you are eligible.
Driving and getting a car in Cyprus
They drive on the left, distances are short, and a car is close to essential — how to sort wheels, from a first rental to your own plates.
Schools and family life in Cyprus
English-medium schools, a safe outdoor childhood and short commutes — what moving families most want to know.
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.
Where to settle in Cyprus: the districts, by character and cost
Cosmopolitan Limassol, easy Larnaca, characterful Paphos, the capital Nicosia and the resort east — which one is your Cyprus.
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.
The painted churches of Troodos: a UNESCO trail
Modest stone barns from the outside; inside, some of the finest Byzantine frescoes in the world.
Hiring in Cyprus: social insurance and employer duties
Before your first employee starts, you register, you notify, and you learn the contribution rates. The full set of employer duties, with the current figures.
Aphrodite's island: where myth meets the coast
Cyprus called itself the birthplace of the goddess of love long before the tourist boards did — and the landscape still makes the case.
Why founders choose Cyprus
An EU base with English at the desk, competitive tax and a life by the sea — the quiet logic drawing entrepreneurs to the island.
Cyprus as a shipping and technology hub
One of the world's great ship-management centres, now with a fast-growing technology cluster alongside it.
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.
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.
Funding and grants for a Cyprus business
Grants that cover up to 85% of research spend, bank finance, and the tax incentives that quietly matter. Where Cyprus money actually comes from.
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.
The Cypriot breakfast, and where to find it
Halloumi and eggs, village bread, olives and a sweet coffee — the unhurried first meal that sets the island's pace.
Halloumi: the cheese that made Cyprus famous
It squeaks, it grills without melting, and it carries a protected name — the story of the island's most travelled export.
The Cyprus festival calendar: a year in celebrations
Carnival in spring, Kataklysmos by the sea, wine in autumn — the island keeps time by its festivals.
Summer nights: open-air cinema, concerts and village fairs
When the heat lifts after sunset, the island comes out to play — under the stars, by the sea, in the square.
The island of makers: Cyprus's winemakers, potters and cheesemakers
Behind every great Cypriot table stands a maker — the small producers keeping the island's crafts alive.
Cyprus's international community: who lives here, and why
A genuinely global island — how newcomers from across the world made Cyprus home, and found each other.
Cyprus and the world: a crossroads of three continents
At the meeting point of Europe, Asia and Africa, the island has always belonged to more than one map.
The Cypriot diaspora: an island that travels
From London to Melbourne, Cypriots abroad have carried the island with them — and keep coming home.
Three days in New York, done properly: ferries, Coney Island, one hidden bar
A working itinerary for the city that never discounts anything, from a free ferry to Staten Island to a 1927 wooden rollercoaster in Coney Island.
How one Shoreditch dentist talked a phobic patient back into the chair
Robin Craig avoided every checkup for four years after a botched filling. A London practice's slow, patient-led approach brought her back.
The Republic's quiet economic turn
Growth is back, and this time the government wants it to last.
Shipping's new flag flies from Limassol
A quiet maritime capital is getting louder, and greener.