Cyprus IBC
Cyprus is one of Europe’s key tax havens and is only a four-hour flight from the UK. It’s a popular destination for those wanting to avoid capital gains tax and is becoming increasingly popular as a home for setting up offshore company structures. One of the key benefits of using a Cyprus offshore company is that Cyprus has double-tax treaties with well over 45 other countries, including most major Western ‘high-tax’ countries and most Central and Eastern European states. This is unusual for a tax haven and means that Cyprus is a very good choice for holding and investment companies. It’s also on the OECD ‘white list’ and has implemented numerous tax information exchange agreements.
Key Features
Cyprus IBC | Corporate Details |
General | |
| IBC |
| English Common Law |
| Yes |
| Yes |
| 5 Business days |
| 10% |
| Yes |
Share capital or equivalent | |
| Euro |
| Any |
| €1,000 |
| €5,000 |
Directors | |
| 1 |
| No |
| Yes |
| Anywhere |
| Yes |
Members | |
| 1 |
| Yes |
| Yes |
| Anywhere |
Company Secretary | |
| Yes |
| No |
Accounts | |
| Yes |
| Yes |
| Yes |
| No |
Other | |
| Yes |
| No |
Advantages
- A great degree of respectability amongst companies registered in other tax incentive or tax haven countries. (Cyprus is not black listed in any country in the world)
- Cyprus is not considered to be a tax haven or “laissez faire” country but a tax incentive country
- No withholding of tax on dividends
- No capital gains tax (except on sale of immovable property situated in Cyprus)
- Freely transferable accounts of any currency may be kept either in Cyprus or anywhere abroad without any exchange control restrictions
- No exchange control restrictions
Company’s foreign employees working in Cyprus are liable to personal income tax at a rate from 0 to 20% and if working outside Cyprus but receiving their salary through Cyprus at a rate from 0 to 2%