Markets, funds, shipping and the money moving through Limassol and Nicosia.
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.
The income tax bands, the VAT thresholds and the filing deadlines that decide your year, set out plainly and with the current figures.
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.
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.
An EU base with English at the desk, competitive tax and a life by the sea — the quiet logic drawing entrepreneurs to the island.
One of the world's great ship-management centres, now with a fast-growing technology cluster alongside it.
Grants that cover up to 85% of research spend, bank finance, and the tax incentives that quietly matter. Where Cyprus money actually comes from.
Aliko Dangote's Lagos refinery has opened what is being billed as the continent's biggest share sale, with a full subscription valuing the company at 65.22 trillion naira and pushing his personal fortune toward $60 billion.
A tax regime, a time zone and a marina walk are quietly moving capital south-east.
A quiet maritime capital is getting louder, and greener.
The week on the island, chosen and written by our editors — property, culture and the good life, in one considered email.
