Budget Measures Implementation Bill 2024

Further to the Budget for 2025 announced on 28 October 2025, the Budget Measures Implementation Bill has been published. The bill proposes amendments to: Part II Amendment to the Customs Ordinance. Cap. 37. Part III Amendments to the Income Tax Act. Cap. 123. Part IV...

Malta Budget 2025

The Minister for Finance and Employment, the Hon Clyde Caruana, has delivered the Budget Speech for 2025. The following is an overview of some of the fiscal measures announced: → The income tax brackets for individuals (single, married and parent computations) will be widened, which is...

Guidance Note on IFRS17

The Malta Tax & Customs Administration has published  a new Guidance Note in Relation to the Taxation of Insurance Businesses Following the Adoption of IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts Rules. View the guidance here....

MTCA launches Client Satisfaction Survey

The Malta Tax & Customs Administration launched a comprehensive Client Satisfaction Survey on 19 September. The survey, which has been sent to taxpayers by email,  is aimed at gathering feedback from both service providers and individual taxpayers.  ...

Pre-Budget Consultation Document 2025

The Minister for Finance has launched the Pre-Budget Consultation Document 2025 Chapter 2 of the document, under the heading 'Ensuring Sustainability in Public Finances', provides an update on the programme for the modernisation of the Maltese Tax and Customs Administration, including: the implementation of a digitised...

Income Tax deductions rules – expenditure on intellectual property

The Income Tax (Deductions) (Amendment) Rules have been revised by LN 229 of 2024 to include provisions governing deductions made in accordance with the second proviso to article 14(1)(m) of the Income Tax Act in respect of expenditure of a capital nature on intellectual property...

Amendment to the AIP rules

Legal Notice 204 of 2024 has amended the First Schedule to the Immovable Property (Acquisition by Non-Residents) Act...

EU Consultation on e-format for CbC Reporting

The EU Commission has launched a public consultation on draft legislation which introduces a common template and electronic format for annual country-by-country reporting obligations for large multinational corporations operating in the EU, who are required to disclose income tax information for a given financial reporting...

Personal income tax return (electronic) submission deadline extended

The Malta Tax and Customs Administration (MTCA) has announced that today's deadline for the electronic filing of income tax returns for individuals has been extended by 1 week to Wednesday 7 August 2024. The due date of the relative payment is being extended accordingly. The personal income...