To find out when a car's MOT runs out or whether it owes road tax, people in Cyprus still phone the department or queue at an office. The web account makes the trip unnecessary: every car registered in your name on one screen, with MOT and tax dates against each; your details in the records changed online rather than in person; the off-road declaration when a car will sit idle; and the number-plate auction, which runs through this same account.
First, a disclaimer: you do not need the account to pay road tax. Renewal works without registration or login — the portal says so next to the renewal link — and the step-by-step is in our guide to paying road tax in Cyprus. The account is for everything else: your cars in one list, your address in the department's records, and declaring a car off the road.
The caveat is registration itself. Not everyone can sign up online, and the portal never says so plainly. There are three routes in — all three below.
What the account shows
The main sections, one by one. The same menu also carries driving-exam and driving-school services, some of them in Greek even in the English version.
Vehicle Details. Every vehicle registered in your name: a list first — pick the car and press Details. The card shows category, make, body type, engine capacity, and CO2 emissions; the tax block goes by the name Circulation Licence, with the end date, the fee paid, and anything owed; the dates of the last and the next MOT sit alongside. Do not be surprised by Greek — the category can read ΙΔΙΩΤΙΚΟ, meaning private. This is the screen most people open the account for.
View / Modify Address Details. The records hold two addresses, residential and correspondence, and official notices go to them. Both change here, with a tick against the one you are updating. If an address went out of date after a move, the letters keep going to the old one, and a missed deadline stays your problem.
Driver Details. Your driving licence data.
Application for Vehicle Changes. A request to amend a vehicle's recorded characteristics, filed with the registration number and the last five characters of the VIN — for when something about the car has officially changed.
Vehicle Immobilisation. The declaration that a car is off the road, so no tax accrues. Covered separately below.
Change Access Password. Does what it says.
Buying an available plate number (Buy Now Registration Plates) and the plate auction (Auction for Registration Plates), with your own bids and the full bid list, also live in the account — a subject with rules of its own, covered in a separate guide.
One more thing: until a car is registered in your name, Vehicle Details and Vehicle Immobilisation answer with a No Records Found error. Not a fault — there are simply no records yet.
If you hold a Cyprus driving licence
Registration is online and takes one form.
Open the portal's login page. In the right-hand column, under the Login button, sits a Register link — and next to it a second one, which is the first place to take a wrong turn. Plain Register is yours: private individual or company, the form is the same and sorts it out inside. Register for access to technical characteristics of vehicles is for MOT centres, importers, and organisations that need the technical database. Not you.
The English version of the portal is only partly translated; stray Greek links and news around the form are normal — you are in the right place.
Then the form. The field that trips people up is the driving licence number: the form wants the serial number of the licence document, not your ID — point 4d on a plastic licence, and a learner's licence works too. The password is set right there, under Login Details.
The portal is old and runs in English and Greek. There is no Russian version.
A confirmation then arrives from [email protected] — not from the address you wrote to. It carries your username, an eight-digit number. The password is the one you chose on the form; if you lose it, the login page has a Forgotten your password link.
If you have no licence, but a car has been registered to you before
If a car is registered in your name now, or ever was, the department already knows you, and nobody asks you to prove your identity again.
The same online form is still the way in, but there is nothing to put in the licence field. The form itself says what to do, twice: request a dedicated identification number by emailing [email protected]. Attach a scan of your passport and a valid ARC, and include your phone number and address.
A ready-made email — swap in your own details:
To whom it may concern,
I do not hold a Cyprus driving licence and I would like to use the online services of the Road Transport Department. Please issue me a dedicated identification number so that I can complete the registration form.
Please see my attached documents (passport, valid ARC).
My mobile phone number is 9XXX XXXX and my address is: your full address in Cyprus.
Kind regards,
your full name
The department does not open the account for you: the reply brings a number for the Driver Licence Document Number field. With it, you go back to the same form and fill it in yourself — from there everything runs as it does with a Cyprus licence, confirmation email included.
On timing, honestly: there is no set turnaround. The reply can land the same day or take weeks. If the silence drags on, send a follow-up — no official deadline obliges the department to answer.
If you have never had a car in Cyprus
This is the newcomer's case — no car in Cyprus yet — and where people used to get stuck: the department holds no record of you, and no email fixes that. The department's own answer, when asked directly (as of September 2026): registration happens in person, at your district RTD office or a Citizen Service Centre, with your original passport and your ARC if you hold one. The reason is the documents themselves — they are checked on the spot, and that cannot be done remotely.
Book ahead — without an appointment you will not get in. After the visit you are in the records, and the routes above open up: the dedicated number by email, or the form straight away once you hold a Cyprus licence.
Checking MOT and road tax
The most common reason to have the account at all.
A vehicle's card shows the next MOT date, the road tax charged, what is paid and what is owed, alongside make, body type, engine capacity, and CO2. What the tax will come to is a job for the road tax calculator; the account shows what has already been charged.
The department sends no reminders by default, but the registration form has an SMS box worth ticking: MOT expiry, road tax renewal, deregistration. Left unticked, look in at least once a quarter — MOT and road tax run on different dates, and the one people miss is the one they were not thinking about.
Without logging in, the renewal form shows one car's status, provided you know its plate and the owner's reference. The account lists every car you own, with MOT dates and any debt against each.
One limit matters: the account shows only vehicles registered to you. A car you are buying privately is checked together with the seller — the plate and the last digits of the seller's document are enough for the renewal form to show the month the tax is paid up to.
Immobilisation: not paying for a parked car
If a car is not being used, declare it off the road and the tax stops for that period. Account registration is mandatory here, and it is one of the main reasons to get it.
How it works. Immobilisation starts on the first day of the month after you file. It is not retroactive, so file early: a mid-month declaration does not cover the current month. The status has no end date — it lapses on its own when you renew the tax or sell the car.
If the tax is already overdue, the debt up to the end of the current month is settled first. If the tax is paid ahead, part of it can come back: the refund requires FIMAS registration with an IBAN, and the application is filed at an RTD office, a Citizen Service Centre, or a post office. A jointly owned car needs the co-owners' consent, confirmed electronically.
Know this before filing: driving a declared car is an offence — up to six months' imprisonment, a fine of up to 1,000 euro, or both, as section 5B of the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Law puts it — and the department may also charge the tax for the whole declared period. If the address where the car is kept changes, the department has to be told.
Who needs the account first
With several cars, the account gathers every MOT date and every charge into one list — nothing has to be remembered separately.
Away for six months or longer, immobilisation saves real money, and there is no way to file it without the account.
For recent arrivals the address matters most: while the records hold an old one, official notices go nowhere, and you never learn they existed.
After buying a car privately and transferring ownership, the car appears in your account by itself, with every date on it visible there.
If your car is still on its way to Cyprus, none of this has to be your job. We handle the registration, the paperwork, and the plates on your behalf — the car arrives ready to go on the record.
