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Why to choose Cyprus for starting a business?

Cyprus has transformed into a thriving center for global business, offering a unique blend of lifestyle, opportunity, and strategic advantages.

Doing Business in Cyprus

Cyprus is an ideal investment gateway to the European Union, as well as a portal for investment outside the EU, particularly into the Middle East, India and China.  

As a member of the wider EU and Eurozone community, Cyprus ensures safety and stability for investors, while at the same time offers market access to more than 500 million EU citizens.

Cyprus’ legal system, based on English Common Law principles, is widely recognised as a business-friendly and effective system that ensures transparency and reliability in business practices. Offering foreign businesses, a familiar and reliable framework within which to operate.

Cyprus is also fully compliant with the EU Directives and Regulations, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), OECD, FATCA, the Financial Stability Forum laws.

Cyprus offers an attractive tax regime, providing access to an extensive network of more than 60 Double Tax Treaties, and maintaining a corporate tax rate of 12.5%, offering international investors the confidence to set up business or headquarters of their business in Cyprus.

Main Advantages

  • Corporate income tax rate at 12.5%

  • Dividend participation exemption

  • Exemption on disposal of “titles” (e.g. shares, bonds, debentures)

  • No succession taxes

  • No withholding taxes

  • Attractive IP regime

  • Tonnage tax for shipping companies

  • Notional interest deduction

  • Personal tax exemptions for new residents and non-domiciles

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