By Maximilian Berentzen·Last updated 11 November 2026

How we verify

Every figure on this site carries a small copper mark — ✦ verified [date] · [source] — under a table, a calculator, or a number in the margin. This page explains what that mark means, and what it means when a figure doesn't have one.

What the mark means

A figure carrying the mark has been traced to a primary source — legislation, a government department, or a Big Four tax summary used as a cross-check — as at the date shown. The date is when it was last checked, not when it was first written. If it's been a while, that's a reason to ask us to check it again, not a reason to assume it's still current.

Every page that carries figures ends with a line like "Every figure checked on or after 12 August 2026". That date isn't when we last looked at the page. It's the oldest check among the figures on it — the least fresh thing there — so everything else has been checked at least that recently.

What counts as a primary source

The Department of Lands and Surveys, the Cyprus Tax Department, and the legislation itself via the Official Gazette. PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries is used as a cross-check where the primary text is unclear or hard to obtain. Law firm publications can corroborate a figure — they are never the sole support for one.

What we exclude

No property portal, estate agency, developer site, or tax content site is used as a source for any figure on this site — not even to corroborate. Competitors in this space routinely cite each other, which is how a single error propagates across a dozen "independent" sources. We can't honestly say we're different from those sites and then use them as references.

The three states

Every figure in our data has one of three states. Verified figures render normally, with the mark. Unverified and conflicting figures do not render at all — the number is withheld rather than guessed, shown instead as a plain notice that it isn't published yet.

This isn't an editorial policy we could forget to follow. It's enforced by the code itself: a page that cites a figure which isn't verified fails to build. There's no draft state where an unverified number reaches a live page by accident — the build stops it before that's possible.

When sources disagree

Both positions get stated until one can be traced to the law itself. A real example: published sources gave two different rates for gifts of property between spouses, 0.01% and 0.1%. For a while this site showed PwC's 0.1% and said plainly that the two disagreed. In November 2026 we read the fee schedule in the law itself. It says one per ten thousand, which is 0.01%, so PwC's figure was ten times too high. The transfer fees page now shows 0.01%, with the law as its source. We'd rather tell you we got it wrong than quietly change the number.

Where we can, we ask the relevant department directly and treat their written answer as a citable, dated primary source. Where we can't yet, we say so instead of filling the gap with something that sounds plausible.

Found something wrong?

If you believe a figure is out of date or incorrect, tell us. We'll check it against the primary source and update the verification date either way — whether that means correcting the figure or confirming it's still right.