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Tax For All Cyprus: What to File Where in 2026

This article is general information, not tax advice. TaxItEasy helps you organise and prepare your tax documents — your tax advisor (Steuerberater) reviews and files your return.

Tax For All (TFA), TAXISnet and CY Login explained: which Cyprus portal to use for VAT, income tax and registration in 2026, plus login help and deadlines.

Cyprus runs two tax portals at once. Tax For All handles some things, TAXISnet still handles others, and the login was renamed to CY Login along the way. This guide sets out which portal covers what today — and what to have ready before you log into either of them.

What is Tax For All (TFA)?

Tax For All is the Republic of Cyprus's taxpayer portal, operated by the Tax Department. Its clearest documented role is registration: the government's own business portal states that registering in the Tax Register happens only through TFA. Which other filings run through it today is less clear-cut than most summaries suggest — including the government's own.

That last sentence is not hedging for its own sake. The single best official source on this — the Republic's business portal — says both of the following on the same page: that a Tax Register registration request "is carried out ONLY online through the Taxpayer Portal TAX FOR ALL (TFA)", and, separately, that a VAT-registered business should "submit a VAT declaration via TAXISnet by filling in Form T.D. 1004".

Both statements are official. They point at different portals. If you have found this page because you were not sure which system you were supposed to be in, that is a reasonable place to have ended up.

What do I file where, right now?

The short version: registration is settled and lives in TFA, the login is CY Login for everything, and the filing side is genuinely in transition. The table below separates what is stated plainly in official sources from what is currently reported but not yet consistently documented.

What you need to do Where it goes How firm is this
Register in the Tax Register Tax For All (TFA) Stated plainly by the government business portal: online through TFA only, account required first
VAT declaration (Form T.D. 1004) Official guidance is inconsistent — the same government page names TAXISnet, while TFA is widely described as the VAT filing channel Confirm your current filing channel with your accountant before the next deadline
Income tax return, employees and self-employed without audited accounts TAXISnet, for now As reported by the Cyprus Mail on 24 May 2026: the Tax Department decided in April 2026 to keep this on TAXISnet for one more cycle
Logging in to any of the above CY Login (formerly Ariadni) Official CY Login help pages; existing Ariadni credentials still work
Paying social insurance contributions SISnet, the ministry's online contributions payment system Ministry of Labour system; separate from the tax portals entirely
Reporting a new hire or a termination ERGANI, at ergani.mlsi.gov.cy Stated plainly: notification is electronic only, no later than one day before recruitment

Two things are worth pulling out of that table. Social insurance and employment reporting are not tax-portal matters at all — they sit with the Ministry of Labour, which is why looking for them in TFA is a dead end. And Greece operates a system also called ERGANI; if you search the name without the country, you will land in the wrong country's rules. The Cyprus one is at ergani.mlsi.gov.cy.

Why did TAXISnet come back into the news in 2026?

Because the migration slowed down. Many people expected the 2025 income tax return to be the first one filed in TFA. As reported by the Cyprus Mail on 24 May 2026, the Tax Department decided in April 2026 that employees and self-employed people without audited accounts would stay on TAXISnet for another filing cycle instead.

The reasoning quoted in that report was about pacing rather than a change of direction. A tax-commission spokesperson was quoted saying it is "wiser to use TAXISnet for one year more before the reform [comes in to effect], and then we will roll out Tax For All fully", and that "everyone will need to move to TFA, but not for this year's filing cycle".

So TAXISnet is not a legacy system you can ignore yet, and TFA is not yet the single front door. If you only remember one thing from this page: check which portal your specific filing type uses this year, rather than assuming last year's answer still holds.

How do I log into TFA?

Through CY Login. It describes itself as the Republic of Cyprus's service for managing and identifying users — a single sign-on for government services. If you already had an Ariadni account, those credentials still work, because Ariadni is the former name of the same service rather than a separate system you need to replace.

Practical notes from the official CY Login help pages: there are two account categories, one for citizens and one for companies and organisations, so pick the one that matches how you will actually file. Email activation is expected to complete within about fifteen minutes of registering. Two-factor authentication is available and optional — worth switching on for an account that fronts your tax data.

How do I register in the Tax Register?

This is the one part with no ambiguity. The Republic's business portal states that the submission of a registration request in the Tax Register is carried out only online through the TFA taxpayer portal, and that creating an account is a prerequisite for submitting that request.

In practice that means the account comes first and the registration request second — you cannot start with the form. Once your request is approved, your TFA account is linked to your Tax Identification Number and you are notified at the email address you registered with. Everything after that, including whether VAT registration applies to you, depends on your own turnover and activity; the €15,600 taxable-turnover threshold is the usual trigger, and it is worth going through with your accountant rather than self-assessing.

What Tax For All does not do

TFA is a filing and registration channel. It is not a bookkeeping system. It does not read your receipts, it does not tell you which expenses are deductible, and it does not reconcile what you filed against what actually moved through your bank account. It takes numbers you have already worked out and accepts them.

That gap is where most of the real work sits. By the time a VAT figure is ready to type into a portal, someone has collected the invoices, sorted them into periods, matched payments against transactions and checked that nothing is missing. The portal is the last five minutes of a much longer job.

Getting ready, whichever portal turns out to be yours

The portal question resolves itself once you know your filing type. The preparation question does not — it is the same work regardless of which system you end up logging into, and it is the part that actually takes time.

That is what TaxItEasy is for: photograph a receipt or forward an invoice by email, and it is read, sorted and matched against your bank transactions, with VAT totals visible as you go and a clean export for your accountant at period end. We deliberately do not file anything on your behalf — your accountant reviews and files, in whichever portal applies to you.

If you are setting up the bookkeeping side, the Cyprus accounting guide covers what to have in place across the year. If you are issuing invoices from Cyprus, Cyprus invoice requirements lists the fields each one has to show, and the Cyprus invoice template is a worked example you can copy. On the practical side, scanning with the mobile app and setting up email forwarding are the two habits that keep a period from turning into an archaeology project, and the VAT overview shows the totals building up before a deadline rather than after it.

Frequently asked questions

What is Tax For All (TFA)?

Tax For All is the Republic of Cyprus's taxpayer portal, run by the Tax Department. Its clearest documented role is registration: the official business portal states that a request to register in the Tax Register is submitted only online through TFA, and that you must create an account there first.

Do I have to register through Tax For All?

For the Tax Register, yes. The Cyprus government's business portal states that the registration request is carried out only online through the TFA taxpayer portal, and that creating an account is a prerequisite. There is no paper route described alongside it, so plan for the account first.

Is TAXISnet still in use in Cyprus?

Yes. TAXISnet has not been switched off. As reported by the Cyprus Mail on 24 May 2026, the Tax Department decided in April 2026 that employees and self-employed people without audited accounts keep filing income tax returns on TAXISnet for another cycle, with TFA taking over later.

What happened to Ariadni?

Ariadni was renamed. The service is now called CY Login and describes itself as the Republic of Cyprus's service for managing and identifying users — a single sign-on for government services. Existing Ariadni credentials continue to work, so you do not need a second account to reach TFA.

Where do I register a new employee in Cyprus?

Not in a tax portal. Notification of new hires is made only electronically through the ERGANI information system at ergani.mlsi.gov.cy, and the employer must notify the Social Insurance Services no later than one day before the recruitment starts. Greece runs a similarly named system — check the domain.

Does TaxItEasy file my Cyprus tax return?

No, and that is deliberate. Filing happens in whichever government portal applies to you, done by you or your accountant. TaxItEasy prepares what sits behind the filing: receipts and invoices read and sorted, bank transactions matched, VAT totals visible, everything exportable for your accountant.

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This article is general information, not tax advice. TaxItEasy helps you organise and prepare your tax documents — your tax advisor (Steuerberater) reviews and files your return.

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