Legal Calculators

The Department of Lands and Surveys charges on a rising scale, and the fee is halved in the cases where the reduction applies. Buying in joint names splits the price across the buyers for the purposes of the scale, which can move the whole purchase into a lower band. VAT and transfer fees do not both fall on the same transaction in the same way, and the reduced VAT rate has conditions attached to it.

The tool takes a price and the way the purchase is structured and returns the figures with the scale it used shown alongside. Open the transfer fees and VAT calculator.

The Limitation of Actions Law, Law 66(I)/2012, sets different periods for different causes of action, and the period is only half of the question. What starts the clock, what suspends it, and what starts it again are all in the statute, and an acknowledgement of a debt or a payment on account can reset a period that had almost run.

The tool covers the claim types in the Law, applies the extensions and suspensions it provides for, and names the section it relied on. Open the limitation periods calculator.

A limitation point is the one thing that cannot be fixed later. If the answer is close to the line, it is close enough to act on now.

A will made in Cyprus does not dispose of the whole estate. Section 41 of the Wills and Succession Law, Cap. 195, caps the disposable portion by reference to which relatives survive, and section 44 fixes the surviving spouse's share of what is left. Section 42, the provision foreign nationals used to rely on, was deleted in 2015.

The tool asks whether there is a will, then who survives, and returns the disposable portion and the statutory portion as exact fractions. Open the forced heirship calculator.

Whether a tenancy falls inside the Rent Control Law depends on three things at once: where the property is, what it is used for, and when the tenant went into occupation. The controlled areas are not a matter of impression; they are set by a statutory instrument, and a property a few streets outside one is outside the regime entirely.

The tool works through the three questions in order and tells you which of them decided the answer. Open the rent control checker.

You become a Cyprus tax resident either by spending most of the year here or by meeting the 60-day rule in full. Section 2 of the Income Tax Law makes an individual resident in one of two ways: more than 183 days in Cyprus in the tax year, or the 60-day rule, whose gateway and three conditions must all be met in the same year. Law 244(I)/2025 replaced that definition from the 2026 tax year and removed the old requirement that no other state treat you as its tax resident. Residency is what opens the door to the non-dom exemption, which keeps a resident who is not domiciled in Cyprus outside the special defence contribution on dividends and interest.

The tool works through both rules and the domicile question, and says which condition decided the answer. Open the tax residency checker.

These are calculators, not advice. Each applies a rule to the facts you type in, and it has no way of knowing whether those are the facts a court would find. A limitation answer turns on when a cause of action accrued, which is a question about evidence. A succession answer assumes Cyprus law governs the estate, which is itself a prior question. A rent control answer assumes the tenancy is what the parties call it.

Every tool states its own assumptions on its page and gives the provision it applied, so the working can be checked rather than taken on trust. Where the law has been amended since a page was written, the page says when it was last checked.