The firm
For founders whose company value is its software
Doviandi designs the ownership structure that value sits in and holds the licence to administer it, so the governance, accounting and filings run against the structure they were built for. Where the founder is moving to Cyprus too, that runs as part of the same engagement.
What the firm does
Take the work most of our clients bring. A company owns a codebase. The Cyprus intellectual property regime taxes the profit from it at roughly 3 percent at full nexus, and how much of that profit qualifies is decided by which entity paid for the development. That is settled by contracts and payment records, tracked as the year runs rather than reconstructed at the year end. Underneath sits whether the company is Cyprus tax resident at all, which turns on where its decisions are actually taken.
The firm builds and holds all of it: the ownership structure, the assignment chain from founders and contractors, the expenditure record, the resident board and the filings.
The second half of the practice is holding companies, and not only those holding software. Foreign dividends arriving under the participation exemption, subsidiaries across several countries, gains on a share sale outside the corporate charge, distributions leaving without withholding. A holding company has a share register and a bank account and very little else to point at, so its position rests almost entirely on a board that meets here and records what it considered. Around both sit redomiciliation, transfer pricing, trusts and succession, and the accounting underneath. Clients work with qualified senior advisers throughout, and each position is reasoned from the legislation rather than from a template.
Where the firm does its best work.
How the published material is produced
Everything in the knowledge base is written from primary sources: Cyprus legislation, the Cyprus Tax Department, OECD instruments and EU directives. Competitor material is never cited. Each page states the date it was last reviewed and names the adviser accountable for the position, and each carries a review trigger recording the event that would make it out of date.
Where a question has no settled answer, the page sets out what the position turns on instead of asserting one. Where a figure is a best case, it is labelled as such next to the figure.
Regulatory standing
Doviandi is a licensed administrative service provider regulated by ICPAC. The firm holds professional memberships and credentials with the bodies listed below, each linking to the issuing organisation so the standing can be confirmed independently.
Regulatory and professional bodies
Knowledge base
The published record
Doviandi has advised international clients for 12 years, through the OECD nexus rules, ATAD, the substance requirements that followed and the 2026 corporate tax reform.
Find out whether Cyprus fits your plans
It starts with three questions: where your revenue comes from, what you own, and where you are tax resident. From there, the conversation is about what you are building and where you want to take it. After the call, you receive a written proposal covering the recommended structure, the implementation roadmap, and a fixed fee quote.