Annual government levy deadline, 30th of June 2016.
Please be reminded that all Cyprus companies should settle the special annual government levy of 350 euro by the 30th of June 2016. The settlement of the annual duty...
Seminar – Company Directors: Duties & Liabilities
Our managing partner Christophoros Chirstophi will be presenting a series of two seminars for the Cyprus Fiduciary Association entitled “Company Directors: Duties & Liabilities” The seminars will be held on the 23/06/16...
Opening a Merchant Account with a Cyprus company.
A Cyprus company is a European Company. As such a Cyprus company is acceptable by European banks for the opening of merchant accounts provided that certain preconditions are met on...
FBME Cyprus. How to “unlock” your money at the FBME.
The Central Bank of Cyprus has on the 9th of April 2016 activated the Deposit Guarantee and Resolution of Credit and Other Institutions Scheme (DGS) in the case of the...
Updated double tax treaty table. November 2015
Read the recently updated double tax treaty list of Cyprus as issued by the Ministry of Finance. Cyprus currently has 58 double tax treaties. Click the link below. http://www.mof.gov.cy/mof/mof.nsf/page26_en/page26_en?OpenDocument
How the media presented the ECHR judgement in the Vrountou case
The judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in the Vrountou case issued on the 13th of October 2015, attracted a lot of media attention. [READ THE CASE SUMMARY...
European Court of Human Rights vindicates our client for human rights violations.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered yesterday 13/10/2015 its judgment in the case of Vrountou v. Republic of Cyprus (application no. 33631/06). Our law firm represented the applicant...
Tax Alert. Automatic exchange of information on tax rulings of EU Member states.
The Commission has welcomed a unanimous agreement by Member States on the automatic exchange of information on cross-border tax rulings, just seven months after the presentation of the Commission’s ambitious proposal...
Facebook data and privacy. Important Judgment of the Court of Justice.
Judgment in Case C-362/14 Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner Luxembourg, 6 October 2015 The Court of Justice declares that the Commission’s US Safe Harbour Decision is invalid Whilst the...
Loans in foreign currency and borrower’s rights, Part 2
On the 14th of April 2014 I wrote an article about loans in foreign currency and the rights of borrowers. The link to that article is here. The article dealt...