Tax Scam Warning

As you may have read, the Inland Revenue Department has warned that electronic messages are circulating with the government domain @gov.cy purporting to be from the tax office and requesting banking information from recipients “in order to receive a refund”.

The message is a scam and is intended to intercept bank account details of unsuspecting citizens and you are urged to ignore this message.

The warning states that the tax department communicates with the public only through e-mail addresses ending in: @tax.mof.gov.cy. Moreover, any refunds are made only by Inland Revenue secure procedures .