Cyprus: Corporate Tax

The OECD's November 2025 updated Commentary on Article 5 of the Model Tax Convention introduces groundbreaking guidance on when cross-border remote working arrangements and home offices may create permanent...

The Cyprus Tax Portal enables taxpayers to manage their tax obligations digitally, from submitting self-assessments to completing payments through card or internet banking. This practical guide walks through the essential steps for navigating the portal, selecting the correct tax categories, verifying payment details, and ensuring transactions are properly recorded in your tax account.

Cyprus has fundamentally changed how it taxes outbound dividends, interest, and royalties paid to associated companies. Depending on where the receiving shareholder is located, the same payment can now attract 0%, 5%, or 17% withholding tax—or trigger a complete denial of the deduction. Most international groups have not yet reviewed their ownership structures against these new rules, which took effect on 1 January 2026 and apply automatically based on the recipient's jurisdiction.

Cyprus has cut its dividend tax rate from 17% to 5% starting January 2026, but the reduction applies only to profits earned from that date forward.

Cyprus has introduced an 8% tax rate on qualifying crypto-asset disposal gains while implementing full MiCA authorisation requirements following the end of the transitional period on 1 July 2026.

Section 2 showed the scale of Cyprus's gaming market. Section 3 showed the diversity of the studios that make it up. Section 4 showed the capital that flows through them. This section looks at what made all of it possible in the first place.

Cyprus holding companies provide a highly tax-efficient structure for international investments structures. The jurisdiction combines an extensive participation exemption regime with zero withholding taxes on profit repatriation fully aligned with EU, OECD and BEPS regulations.

Cyprus remains one of the most commonly considered European jurisdictions for international consultants, software developers, technology businesses, SaaS providers and online entrepreneurs...

Cyprus has increasingly positioned itself as a jurisdiction of interest for entrepreneurs, international business owners, remote professionals and high-net-worth individuals seeking an EU base with a modern...