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.    ...

Updated International Taxation Payment details

​The Office of the CfR has announced that as of 20th January, 2020 the GBP correspondent bank will be changed from HSBC BANK PLC to “J.P. Morgan AG, Frankfurt”. The new related bank account number and SWIFT code are 59012724 and CHASDEFX, respectively. The bank accounts held by the...

ATAD II Implemented

LN 348 of 2019 published on 24 December 2019, implements the provisions of EC Directives 2016/1164 (ATAD I) and 2017/952 (ATAD II) concerning hybrid mismatches, revising the European Union Anti-Tax Avoidance Directives Implementation Regulations (LN 411 of 2018). The amendments entered into effect on 1 January 2020, with...

Relocation of the International Tax Unit’s offices

The Office of the Commissioner for Revenue has announced that the offices of the International Tax Unit have moved to AM Business Centre, Triq il-Labour, Zejtun ZTN 2401. This is the same premises occupied by the Malta Business Registry. Furthermore, with effect from the 3rd of February,...

Guidelines on the Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information

The Office of the Commissioner for Revenue has published consolidated guidelines on the automatic exchange of financial account information in connection with the application of FACTA IGA, CRS and DAC II. These supersede and revoke any previously issued guidelines supplementing these instruments. The salient changes included...