Moving to Cyprus Checklist: Your Relocation Steps in Order

Your relocation checklist

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01Before you move

Settle your home country's side with a local tax adviser: leaving its tax system, any exit rules, and deregistering. We can recommend one.
Find a home in Cyprus, rented or bought. Almost every registration asks for your address and your rental contract or title deeds.
Plan your year for the 60-day rule: at least 60 days in Cyprus and no more than 183 in any other single country.Tax residency day counter
Arrange health cover for the weeks before you're registered with GeSY.

02First weeks

Apply for your Yellow Slip (form MEU1) within four months of arriving. Book the appointment early: the wait for one is often the slow part.Yellow Slip
Open a personal bank account in Cyprus.
Put the electricity and water in your name. Offices often take the bills as proof of address.

03Taxes and registration

Get your Tax Identification Code (TIC) from the Tax Department.Registering for a TIC
Get a Social Insurance number. Your employer, or your own company if it pays you a salary, needs it for payroll.
Register with GeSY, the national health system, and choose a personal doctor.GeSY explained
If you'll be paid a salary in Cyprus, check whether a new-resident income tax exemption applies.Exemption checker
Claim non-dom status with the Tax Department.Tax residency and non-dom
Once you're tax resident, ask the Tax Department for a tax residency certificate. Banks and your home tax office may ask for it.Tax residency

04Company

Decide your company's name, shareholders, directors and what it will do.Company formation
Register the company with the Registrar of Companies: name approval first, then incorporation.How to register a company
Open a business bank account for the company.Business bank accounts
Register the company with the Tax Department, and for VAT when it has to.VAT registration checker
Register the company as an employer if it pays salaries, yours included.
Keep books from the first transaction. The company files accounts and a tax return every year.Your first year

05Ongoing

Keep a record of your days in and out of Cyprus each year.Tax residency day counter
File your personal tax return each year.Tax calendar
File the company's tax return and annual return, and pay its provisional tax, on time.Tax calendar
Track your years: non-dom status lasts until you've been tax resident for 17 of the last 20.Non-dom status

A general list, not legal or tax advice. Rules, forms and waiting times change, and your own case can add steps. Check each one with the office that handles it. Your answers and ticks are saved in this browser only.

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No permit, but EU, EEA and Swiss citizens staying more than three months must register their residence. That's the Yellow Slip, applied for on form MEU1 within four months of arriving.

A residence permit, usually called the Pink Slip. Which route fits depends on what you'll do here: a job with a Cyprus company, including one you set up, or remote work for an employer abroad on the Digital Nomad Visa. Since Brexit, British citizens are in this group.

Not on its own. Tax residency depends on your days: more than 183 in the calendar year, or at least 60 under the 60-day rule with its conditions. A Yellow Slip or Pink Slip doesn't decide it.

The Tax Identification Code, your tax number in Cyprus. You need one to file a tax return, and employers, banks and the Tax Department's online services ask for it.

Every country has its own rules for people who leave: when you stop being resident, what you still owe, and sometimes an exit tax. Settle that side with a local tax adviser in that country. We can recommend one.

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Your relocation checklist

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04Company

05Ongoing

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