Moving a UK Limited Company to Cyprus: The Redomiciliation Route and What It Means for Tax
Quick answer: A UK limited company cannot directly redomicile out of the UK, because the Companies Act 2006 contains no outbound continuation regime. Businesses relocating to Cyprus typically use one of three structures: a share-for-share exchange into a Cyprus holding entity, a cross-border merger, or an asset transfer followed by striking off the UK shell. […]
Structuring International Groups Through a Cyprus Parent Company: EU Directive Advantages and Dividend Flows
International groups looking at where to place their parent entity face a narrower shortlist than most advisers admit. The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Malta, and Cyprus dominate that list within the EU, each with its own quirks. Cyprus has held its ground for over two decades, and the 2026 fiscal reform has reshaped, rather than weakened, […]
Cyprus, Luxembourg or the Netherlands: Which EU Holding Jurisdiction Actually Fits Your Group?
Picking a holding seat sounds like a tax exercise. In practice, it rarely is. It is a risk exercise dressed up in tax language. The question is less “where do I save the most?” and more “where am I least likely to lose the structure I just built?” That shift matters because the answer in […]
Structuring Intellectual Property Ownership Across Jurisdictions Through a Cyprus IP Holding Company
When a group’s most valuable assets are intangible, the question of where those assets sit on the corporate map starts to matter as much as how they were created. A patent registered in one country, developed by a team in a second, and licensed to operating entities in a third is not just an administrative […]
Cyprus Holding Company Formation: Structure, Tax Benefits and Substance Requirements
For founders, family offices and multinational groups, where you place the parent of a group is rarely a small decision. It shapes how dividends move, how exits are taxed, and how the structure looks to a regulator three jurisdictions away. Cyprus has been a serious option for that role for years, and after the January […]
Dividend Taxation in Cyprus for Foreign Shareholders: The Real Numbers After the 2026 Reform
Most foreign shareholders who hold equity in a Cypriot company walk away with the full dividend, no Cyprus tax withheld at source. That is the short answer, and it is worth stating up front because so much of what circulates online still references pre-2026 figures that no longer apply. The longer answer involves a few […]
Cyprus Tax Residency vs UK Tax Residency: A Side-by-Side Comparison for Business Owners
The abolition of the UK remittance basis in April 2025 and Cyprus’s tax reforms, effective 1 January 2026, have significantly changed the comparison between the two jurisdictions for internationally mobile business owners. This guide compares fiscal residency, corporate taxation, non-dom treatment, inheritance exposure, and practical structuring considerations side by side. A quick note: this is […]
How to Become a Cyprus Tax Resident: The 183-Day Rule, 60-Day Rule and Documents You Need
Relocating your fiscal base is rarely a clean one-step process. Most of the people we speak with, founders, investors, and family-office principals, want a clear, defensible position with the Cyprus authorities, and they want it built on documents that will actually hold up if a foreign tax office asks questions. That is what this guide […]
Cyprus Non-Dom Regime Explained (2026): 17 Years of Zero SDC on Dividends and Interest for Foreign Nationals
The post-Brexit reshuffling of global wealth has put one small Mediterranean island squarely on the radar of internationally mobile families, founders, and seasoned investors. After the United Kingdom abolished its own non-domicile arrangement in April 2025, advisers across London, Geneva, and Dubai began fielding the same question from clients with portfolios producing meaningful passive income: […]
The Cyprus 60-Day Tax Residency Rule for Entrepreneurs: Qualification and Business Impact
For founders who split their year across several countries, traditional residency rules are awkward at best and disqualifying at worst. Most jurisdictions still anchor fiscal status to a physical presence of half a calendar year or more, which is rarely realistic for someone running an international operation. Cyprus took a different view back in 2017 […]