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Investing and doing business in Northern Cyprus

The foreign investment framework, company formation and ownership, business permits, corporate taxation, incentives and the investment-purpose route to property. We have located the Registrar of Companies, the Investment Development Agency and the relevant provisions of the property law. Rules will be published as each is verified.

Honest status

This vertical exists as a foundation. We have located the primary instruments and the responsible authorities listed below, and we have recorded the regulatory events we can verify. No rule or answer is published here until it has been read in its primary text and encoded with its source, so there is nothing on this page a reader should rely on yet beyond the links to the authorities themselves.

Questions we are working to answer

Listed so you know what is coming and what is deliberately not yet published. Each will appear only when its rules are verified from primary sources.

–Can a foreigner own a company in Northern Cyprus, and what does registration involve?
–What counts as an investment for the purposes of buying property outside the normal limits?
–What incentives exist for foreign investors, and who grants them?
–How is a company with foreign shareholders treated when it buys land?
–What is a licensed intermediary investor?

Authorities

Official Receiver and Registrar of Companies, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC)
Company registration; notifications by foreign-owned companies that acquire property
Cyprus Turkish Investment Development Agency (YAGA) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC)
Investor guidance and incentives
Council of Ministers, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC)
Granting Permission to Purchase and long-term lease permission to foreigners under Law 52/2008

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