CYPRUS

Business location, family relocation choices are not made with a holiday mood but analysing key factors, such as the best operating environment, predicting socio-demographics, political stability, assessing industry trends.

The opportunity to move to a sunny island with crystal clear waters, no white sharks, lowest reported crime rate in the EU is exciting, but the world map has many such paradises.

Cyprus is a young and dynamic EU member, member of the British Commonwealth with a large fluent English-speaking population and a skilled labour force.

Cyprus affords a lot of perks and benefits:

• is a natural gateway to continental Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and benefits of a stimulating 12.5% corporation tax rate.
• Is an ideal relocation target. It offers incentives and tax benefits coupled with zero tax on dividends and interest income for tax resident individuals, cost-effective setting up and on-going operational services, Common Law legal system.
• Is a remarkably diverse and cosmopolitan place to live in: around 200,000 foreign nationals live and work in Cyprus, accounting for 22% of the population.

• Greek is the primary language used in public schools but English is taught everywhere throughout primary and secondary level.

• Cyprus has also many reputable English-speaking primary and secondary schools, providing excellent levels of education and pre-school kindergartens for Greek, English, and Russian speaking toddlers.

• Local colleges and universities are recognised internationally and many also teach in English.