Country pack
communityCyprus
Ekwo is free, open source accounting software. Its Cyprus pack carries the chart of accounts (Cyprus reference chart of accounts, 161 accounts), 5 tax rates in EUR, the periodic return (VAT return (Έντυπο Φ.Π.Α.4), 12 boxes), and the financial statements (Statement of financial position, Statement of comprehensive income (single statement)). Last checked on 2026-09-25 against 16 texts of law and official sources.
- Country code
CY- Currency
EUR- Pack version
0.3.0- Last checked
- 2026-09-25
What the pack carries
- Charts of accountsWhat a company installs, and who each chart is published for.
default(default) — 161 accounts, for companies
- TaxesHow many the pack carries, at which distinct rates, and which treatments it can express.
- 20 taxes at rates of 0, 3, 5, 9, 19
domestic,domestic_reverse_charge,exempt,export,foreign_services_received,intracom_acquisition_goods,intracom_acquisition_services,intracom_goods,intracom_services - Periodic declarationThe form the accounts are read into, the cadences it is filed on, and how many boxes it has.
CY-VAT4— 12 boxes, filed quarter
- When it is dueA rule of the country, not a date. A pack that cannot state its rule states nothing.
- the last day of the month after the period, plus 10 days
- The file it is deposited asThe brick of packages/formats that writes it, where one exists.
- filed by hand on the administration’s portal
- Electronic invoicingThe profile the country imposes, the day it starts, and the text that imposes it.
- no profile — no obligation in law
No enactment obliges a Cyprus business to issue a structured electronic invoice to another business today. Public bodies must be able to receive and process an EN 16931 invoice under Directive 2014/55/EU, transposed for central government from April 2019 and for sub-central contracting authorities from April 2020; that is an obligation on the public buyer's reception, not on a supplier's issuance, and the European Commission's own country page records that a wider B2B or B2C obligation is under discussion with no date fixed. No profile is declared for the same reason `packs/ie/` declares none where nothing is mandated: this pack was not able to confirm which profile, if any, Cyprus Peppol participants in fact exchange.
- Where the tax balance landsThe accounts a filed declaration settles to, by role.
- payable
2210 - receivable
1150
- payable
- Bank statementsThe formats this country’s banks send, and whether anything here reads them.
camt.053— read
- Payment filesThe formats the country’s banks accept for an outgoing payment.
- no format named
- Financial statementsThe schemes the chart reports on, and the taxonomy their keys are written against.
CY-IFRS-SME-BS— 30 linesCY-IFRS-SME-IS— 14 lines
- Who has read itA pack is reviewed when a named professional has read it against the law, and never before.
communityno named reviewer16 sources cited- Last checked against the lawThe most recent day somebody opened one of the texts the pack was built from.
- 2026-09-25
- Pack versionWhat this pack calls itself, the day it says its transcription is true, and the languages it publishes.
0.3.0— published 2026-10-23en
Free, and operated
Where the open core stops.
The line is operational, not functional. Everything that keeps working on its own is open core; what needs credentials, a certificate or a channel somebody keeps running is the hosted edition.
CY-VAT4declarationFree, for everComputed from the ledger, frozen box by box, filed by hand on the administration’s portal, and what it owes is carried to 2210. The deposit number and the administration’s own words come back into your own database.
OperatedTransmission: the credentials, the certificate and a channel somebody keeps running. The return stays yours.
camt.053bank statementFree, for everA camt.053 file the bank hands over is read and matched against the ledger.
OperatedFetching the statement without being handed it: a PSD2 aggregator contract.
What it was built from
16 sources — the law this pack was read against
- The Value Added Tax Laws of 2000 to 2023 (Ν. 95(Ι)/2000), consolidated text
CyLII — Cyprus Legal Information Institute (cylaw.org). Unofficial consolidation: the Department of the Law Commissioner and the Tax Department's own sites returned 403 to every automated request made while building this pack, so the base law and every amendment were read here instead, decoded from the site's native Windows-1253 encoding to avoid the mojibake a naive UTF-8 read produces. A reviewer should check a citation against the enacted text and the Official Gazette before relying on it. · law · read 2026-09-25
- Οι περί Φόρου Προστιθέμενης Αξίας (Γενικοί) Κανονισμοί του 2001 (Κ.Δ.Π. 314/2001) — the VAT (General) Regulations 2001
Cyprus Official Gazette (Επίσημη Εφημερίδα της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας), Παράρτημα Τρίτο (Ι), reproduced by cylaw.org · regulation · read 2026-09-25
- Το περί Φόρου Προστιθέμενης Αξίας (Τροποποίηση του Πέμπτου Παραρτήματος και Δωδέκατου Παραρτήματος) Διάταγμα του 2020 (Κ.Δ.Π. 268/2020)
Cyprus Official Gazette (Επίσημη Εφημερίδα της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας), Παράρτημα Τρίτο (Ι), Αρ. 5303, reproduced by cylaw.org · regulation · read 2026-09-25
- The Late Payments in Commercial Transactions Law of 2012 (Ν. 123(Ι)/2012)
CyLII — Cyprus Legal Information Institute (cylaw.org), unofficial consolidation · law · read 2026-09-25
- The Companies Law, Cap. 113, English translation made July 2014
Department of the Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property, Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry · law · read 2026-09-25
- IFRS jurisdiction profile — Cyprus
IFRS Foundation · guidance · read 2026-09-25
- eInvoicing in Cyprus
European Commission — Digital Building Blocks · guidance · read 2026-09-25
- Cyprus SME VAT rules — national annual threshold €15,600
European Commission — Taxation and Customs Union · guidance · read 2026-09-25
- Tax For All (TFA) — the portal the VAT return and the VIES statement are filed on
Tax Department, Ministry of Finance · portal · read 2026-09-25
- VAT Definitive Guides, Issue 2 — including an unofficial translation of VAT Return Form 4 and its completion notes
Chelco VAT Ltd. Not an official source: the Tax Department's own guide could not be retrieved for this pack (its former mof.gov.cy address now redirects to gov.cy, and the document was not found at the new one or in the Wayback Machine). Kept as the best available description of which figure the return asks for in which box, and flagged wherever it is relied on; see the pack README. · form · read 2026-09-25
- Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax, consolidated text
Publications Office of the European Union — EUR-Lex · law · read 2026-09-25
- EN 16931 compliance — the European standard on electronic invoicing under Directive 2014/55/EU
European Commission — Digital Building Blocks · standard · read 2026-09-25
- UNCL5305 — the VAT category code list of EN 16931 (BT-118 and BT-151), as the OpenPEPPOL subset publishes it
OpenPEPPOL — the list itself is published by the European Commission · standard · read 2026-09-25
- VATEX — the VAT exemption reason code list of EN 16931 (BT-121)
OpenPEPPOL — the list itself is published by the European Commission · standard · read 2026-09-25
- Peppol code list of electronic address schemes (ISO 6523 ICD)
OpenPEPPOL · standard · read 2026-09-25
- The IFRS for SMEs Accounting Standard (2015 edition), section 4 — Statement of Financial Position, and section 5 — Statement of Comprehensive Income and Income Statement
IFRS Foundation · standard · read 2026-09-25
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