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Time to ‘Reflect’ on the future!
We are pleased to announce that we are proudly sponsoring and co-organizing Reflect Festival 2020 for the third successive year. During this year’s Reflect Festival which is taking place online with over 40 events, 70 speakers and 10 top Start-up presentations, we guarantee a journey into the future. From 8th – 10th October 2020 the […]
2019 Personal Income Tax Submission Form now available online!
The Cyprus Tax Department has announced that Personal Income Tax Form (TD1) for employees or self-employed without audited accounts, for the tax year 2019, is now available for submission via the TAXISnet platform. Taxpayers should note that the Tax Department will only accept TD1 forms which have been submitted via TAXISnet. Therefore, individuals who have […]
Elias Neocleous & Co LLC commences its 2020-2021 training programme.
Elias Neocleous & Co LLC would like to extend a warm welcome to our nine new trainee lawyers who are about to commence their training programme with us. Once again competition for a place on the programme has been fierce, and our newest recruits have all successfully passed through a rigorous and demanding selection process. […]
Keeping the lights on! – EU publishes Action Plan for Critical Raw Materials
In the current climate, when the topic of supply shortages is mentioned, the automatic reaction of many of us is to turn our thoughts to items such as masks, antiseptic wash and toilet paper which, in the early days of the Covid 19 pandemic, seemed to vanish from shop shelves almost before they had been […]
Cyprus’ new Trademarks Law embraces technology
On June 5, 2020 the Cyprus Parliament passed the new Trademarks Law incorporating the European Trademarks Directive (Directive (EU) 2015/2436) into national law, bringing some significant changes to the Trademarks Law. On June 16 the new Trademark Rules of 2020 were published to provide some guidelines on how the provisions of the new Law will […]
Elias Neocleous & Co LLC presents its Corporate Social Responsibility Actions in Insider magazine.
In today’s modern business environment, where corporate actions (or inactions) are increasingly scrutinized and judged on social media platforms, it is necessary for all those in the corporate world to reassess how they implement Corporate Social Responsibility Actions (CSR). Businesses must acknowledge that their success depends not only on their services, but also, on how […]
Dawn of a new era for road safety and air quality?
1 September 2020 should mark the day when the European Union finally draws a line under the 2015 “Dieselgate” scandal which rocked the European motor industry, and in particular, the Volkswagen Group (‘VW’). For those with short memories, the scandal concerned the revelation that nearly half a million diesel cars sold in the USA by […]
Epic events unfolding!
An article concerning litigation between industry giant Apple Inc. and Epic Games Inc., written by our Legal Consultant, Michael Davies, was recently published in the Cyprus Mail. In his article Michael outlines the arguments which underpin the dispute. It may be viewed in full by following this link. Subsequent to its submission, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez […]
Tax Department announces probable extension to deadline for submitting 2019 Tax Return TF1.
On 25 August 2020, the Tax Department issued an announcement that, due to technical reasons, it has not yet been able to make the following 2019 Income Tax Returns available for submission via TAXISnet: Employees and individuals (TF1_individual), Self employed individuals with turnover below EURO 70,000 (TF1_self employed). Ordinarily the returns are available for submission […]
Government and EU announcements on August 24th bring some holiday cheer.
Cypriots who were hoping to gain some respite from this summer’s unusually high temperatures once 15th August had passed have been disappointed this week. However, consumers, workers, employers, business people and even the Cyprus government all had some reason to feel more cheerful on 24th August! The first drop of good news was a confirmation […]
August 2020, Elias Neocleous & Co LLC – ‘A law firm to watch’
We are pleased to announce that, for the second consecutive year, India Business Law Journal (IBLJ) has awarded our firm the accolade of ‘Law firm to watch’ for our India related work in 2020. Founded in 2007, this is the 14th year that the IBLJ has conducted an independent survey to determine the top foreign […]
An interview with our managing Partner, Mr. Elias Neocleous, was recently published in the GOLD magazine.
In the interview Mr. Neocleous mentioned he is optimistic that, once the current COVID-19 global health crisis comes to an end, Cyprus economic activity will soon recover. He did, however, highlight some of the challenges that the current pandemic situation has brought to the market. Mr. Neocleous also expressed his views on the role that […]