Amendment to the ATAD Implementing Regulations

LN 29 of 2020 amends Regulation 10 of the EuropeanUnion Anti-Tax Avoidance Directives Implementation Regulations relating to Reverse Hybrid Mismatches, clarifying that this provision enters into effect on 1 January 2022....

EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions updated

On 18 February 2020 EU Finance Ministers updated the EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. In summary: 12 jurisdictions (American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Oman, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, US Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, Cayman Islands, Palau, Seychelles and Panama) have been added to the list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions; ...

Tax deduction claim forms – Sports & creative courses

Parents whose children were enrolled with a sports provider registered with SportMalta in 2019 may benefit from a tax rebate (per child) of up to €100. Applications forms are to be submitted by February 2020. Download a copy of the form here.   Parents whose children, during 2019, attended a...

Malta – Ghana Double Tax Treaty published

The Agreement between the government of the republic of Malta and the government of the republic of Ghana for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income has been published in virtue of LN 23 of...

Amendment to the Deduction (Income from Employment) Rules

LN 22 of 2020 has revised the Deduction (Income from Employment) Rules (S.L. 123.149), increasing the annual income requirement threshold from €9,700 to €9,840. The revised provision applies with effect from YoA 2021....

Adjusted Class 1 Social Security Rates

The Office of the Commissioner for Revenue has announced an adjustment to the contributions rates for the basis year 2020, specifically, to the basic salary threshold of category 'D' for those persons born up to 31 December 1961. The revised rates applicable as of 1 January 2020 for...

New ICTU contact details

Further to the relocation of the offices of the International Tax Unit (to be known as the International & Corporate Tax Unit - ICTU), the new general contact number for the ICTU is 22582200.    ...