Cyprus company incorporation cost: EUR 165 to the Registrar

Cyprus company incorporation cost: the state fees

Those are the Registrar's own published figures, for both the online route and filing by hand or post. The incorporation forms are HE1, HE2, HE3 and HE5.

Cyprus company formation price in the market

In October 2026 we read the published fees of nine providers serving foreign founders in Cyprus. Headline packages ran from about EUR 1,050 to about EUR 4,150, with a median around EUR 2,300. Our own fee is EUR 2,400.

What separates a EUR 1,050 package from a EUR 3,900 one is usually not the filing. It is whether a registered office, a company secretary, the Tax Department and VAT registrations, certified copies and the first year's compliance calendar are inside the price or billed afterwards. Comparing Cyprus company registration cost without checking that list is comparing nothing.

Cyprus company annual levy: an honest answer

The EUR 350 annual levy is the most asked-about recurring cost of a Cyprus company, and it is also the one we cannot give you a clean answer on.

What the Registrar published on 30 September 2026 is a notice that it will begin striking off entities that have not paid annual levies due under Cap. 113, citing the 2024 amending law, and that companies with unpaid levies for any year from 2012 to 2023 will be gazetted for three months before being struck off. The notice names no amount and says nothing about 2024, 2025 or 2026.

What the company pays in tax

• Corporate income tax of 15% from tax year 2026, up from 12.5%.
• An effective 3% on qualifying profit from a qualifying intangible asset, through the 80% IP Box deduction.
• Tax losses carried forward seven years.
• No stamp duty, abolished from 1 January 2026.
• No withholding on dividends to non-resident shareholders in the general case.

A company incorporated in Cyprus is Cyprus tax resident from 2026 unless a treaty says otherwise, which is a new test sitting alongside the older management-and-control one.

Cyprus company formation service: the running cost people forget

Formation is a one-off. What recurs is accounts, a statutory audit and the tax returns, and Cyprus firms publish that at roughly EUR 1,000 for a dormant company and EUR 2,100 to EUR 4,800 for an active one. We charge EUR 2,700 a year for the full set.

That recurring figure, not the EUR 165, is what decides whether a company is worth it. Below roughly EUR 60,000 of annual profit the compliance cost usually outweighs the tax saving against simply registering as self-employed.