The CSP Rulebook and Applications: IFSP Q&A part 2

Certain applications for authorisation in terms of the new CSP Rulebook are due by 16 May. There remain questions about the interpretation of many of its requirements and how some of the rules are to be understood and complied with. The IFSP is holding a Q&A...

Amendment to the Malta-Switzerland Double Tax Treaty

Amendments to the Double Taxation Relief(Taxes on Income) (The Swiss Confederation) Order, 2012, have been published in LN 198 of 2021. The amendments will come into effect on such date as may be announced in the Government Gazette....

DAC 2 / CRS / FATCA reporting deadline extended

The Office of the CfR has announced that due to the continued exceptional circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic that have created a challenging environment, an extension for the submission of the report containing Financial Account information relating to Reporting Year 2020 has been...

Commencement notices of VAT e-commerce rules published

Legal Notices 219 to 226 of 2020, published on 2 June 2020, introduced amendments to the VAT Act implementing Council Directives 2017/2455, 2009/132/EC and 2019/1995/EC amending Directive 2006/112/EC concerning the VAT e-commerce package (See MIT News 3 June 2020). Legal Notices 187 to 194 of 2021 published earlier today...

CFE Tax Top 5 (26 April 2021)

This week's edition of the CFE Tax Top 5 looks at the following: Pascal Saint – Amans: Digital Tax Agreement by October Fabrizia Lapecorella New Chair of OECD’s Fiscal Committee European Parliament: Lack of Progress in Reforming Code of Conduct Group OECD Updated Report on...

YA2020 Returns for Fiscal Units

The office of the CfR has announced that the facility to upload and submit the income tax return and the supplemental document for Year of Assessment 2020 required to be filed by a principal taxpayer in respect of a fiscal unit is now available.​   source: cfr.gov.mt...

Transfer Pricing – enabling provision

The Budget Measures Implementation Act has introduced an enabling provision in the Income Tax Act which empowers the Minister of Finance to enact rules in relation to transfer pricing. The new article 51 of the Income Tax Act states that such rules may provide for...