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About Paphos Advisor: The Guide I Wish I’d Had

Paphos Advisor is run by Jason, a British founder who moved his family from the UK to Paphos in 2025. The site turns what he learned, checked against government sources, into clear guides, free tools and introductions to vetted local professionals.

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Paphos Advisor in 30 seconds

Who: Jason, a British founder who moved his family from the UK to Paphos in 2025.

What: free guides, tools and a free relocation plan for people moving from the UK to Cyprus, with the UK tax side, the Cyprus permit rules and daily life covered together.

How facts are checked: every fee, band and deadline is matched to a stored source, government first, under our editorial policy.

How it's paid for: partner firms may pay a referral fee when you become their client. You pay nothing extra, and you're told first. See the referral disclosure.

What it isn't: a law firm, tax practice or estate agent. Advice on your own case comes from a licensed professional.

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Why this site exists

Why Paphos Advisor exists

Moving to Cyprus from the UK is not one decision. It is five or six connected ones: which residence route you qualify for, when you stop being UK tax resident, whether a Cyprus company makes sense, where to live, which school, which bank. Get the order wrong and it costs you money.

When I moved my family from the UK to Paphos in 2025, the information was all out there, but it was scattered across government PDFs, law firm sales pages, expat Facebook groups and YouTube videos of very mixed quality. A lot of it was out of date. Plenty of it was written for EU citizens and quietly wrong for anyone holding only a British passport after Brexit.

Paphos Advisor is the site I wanted then: one place that handles the UK tax side, the Cyprus legal side and the practical living-here detail together, in the right order, with the sources shown.

Founder note

“I’m not selling Cyprus. I’m just the person I wish I’d had when I moved.”

JJasonFounder, Paphos Advisor

What Paphos Advisor does

Paphos Advisor does three things, and all three are free to you.

Morning view over the limestone rooftops and church bell tower of Paphos old town towards the sea — Ktima, the old town of Paphos, first thing in the morning

1. Guides you can check. We publish detailed guides on every part of the move, organised by the kind of move you are making: retiring to Paphos, moving with a family, working remotely, setting up a business or getting permanent residency. The core topics sit in four hubs: tax and residency, property, settling in and where to live.

2. Tools that do the sums. Our relocation tools include a tax route finder, a Paphos cost of living calculator and a move timeline planner. The free relocation plan pulls it together: answer a few questions and get the route, the order of steps and the professionals you will need.

3. Introductions to vetted professionals. When you need a lawyer, tax adviser, accountant or estate agent, we introduce you to one we have vetted. You pay nothing for the introduction. You can see how that works on our services page.

Not sure where your move starts?

The relocation route finder tells you in 2 minutes which residence permit fits a UK passport, your income and your family.

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Paphos Advisor in numbers

2025

The year Jason moved his family from the UK to Paphos

Source tiers, with government sources first

Forums are never used for legal or tax numbers

90 days

Maximum gap between checks on fast-changing facts

Fees, thresholds and processing times

€0

What an introduction costs you

Partners may pay us a referral fee

How we research and check every page

Every number on this site, whether a fee, a tax band, a day count or a deadline, is checked against a stored source before it is published. We rank sources in three tiers:

Tier 1: government. gov.cy, the Cyprus Tax Department, GeSY, the Department of Lands and Surveys, gov.uk and HMRC. These are stated as fact.
Tier 2: professional. Big Four tax guides (PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, EY) and established professional firms. Used to confirm and explain, and attributed.
Tier 3: experience. Forums, expat groups and first-hand accounts, including our own. Used for practical texture such as queues and wait times, always labelled, and never used for legal or tax numbers.

When sources disagree, we say so on the page rather than quietly picking one. The Cyprus 2026 tax reform is a live example: some official pages still show pre-reform figures, so our guides show both and explain which applies. Pages with legal or tax content show a last-verified date. The full process is in our editorial policy.

How Paphos Advisor makes money

The site is free to read, and the tools and relocation plan are free to use. We earn money when a partner firm we have introduced you to pays us a referral fee because you became their client. The fee comes out of the partner’s pocket, not yours, and you pay the same as you would going direct.

We never charge firms to appear in a guide, and a referral relationship never changes what a guide says. We tell you before any introduction, and we only share your details with your explicit consent. The detail is on our referral disclosure page.

Seafront path with flat limestone rocks and turquoise sea near the Tombs of the Kings in Paphos — The coastal path near the Tombs of the Kings

What we are, and what we are not

What we are

A founder-led information site written by a British family that has made the move

A place where the UK tax, Cyprus law and day-to-day living questions are answered together, in order

A free introduction service to vetted lawyers, tax advisers, accountants and property professionals

Honest about the hard parts: bureaucracy, processing times, summer heat and costs

What we are not

Not a law firm, accountancy practice or licensed immigration adviser

Not a source of personal legal or tax advice. That comes from the professional you instruct

Not an estate agent or developer, and we do not sell property

Not paid to feature any firm in our guides

Who Paphos Advisor is for

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Retirees

Retiring to Paphos

Pensions, the 5% flat rate option, residence permits and healthcare for UK retirees.

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Families

Moving with children

Schools, family-friendly areas and getting everyone’s residence and healthcare sorted.

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Business owners

Entrepreneurs and remote workers

Companies, substance, the 60-day rule and non-dom status, with the UK exit handled properly.

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Get a relocation plan built around your move

Answer a few questions about who is moving, when and why. You get the right residence route, the tax steps in the right order and the professionals you will need. Free, and no hard sell.

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Sources checked for this page

1.Cyprus Tax DepartmentGovernment
2.GOV.UK — Living in CyprusGovernment

Written by

Jason

Founder, Paphos Advisor

British founder who moved his family from the UK to Paphos in 2025. I write down what I learned doing it properly — the tax, the residency and the living-here detail — and introduce people to the specialists I’d use myself.

How I research and fact-check

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Get in touch about your move to Cyprus, ask for a professional introduction or report a correction. Jason replies within one working day.