This week’e edition of the CFE Tax Top 5 looks at the following: EU Council of Ministers Approves FASTER Directive U.S. Will Not Support Global Minimum Wealth Tax: Secretary of Treasury CFE – Accountancy Europe Members’ Only Webinar: New EU AML Rules – What Changes...

The online service for the filing of the Personal Income Tax for YA 2024 (basis year 2023), is now enabled – see MTCA announcement.

Further to the repeal of article 74 of the VAT Act with the Budget Measures Implementation Act, the Malta Tax & Customs Administration (MTCA) has issued Guidance clarifying that the income tax treatment of interest paid pursuant to the provisions the VAT Act has, with...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications have are rapidly permeating and revolutionising various industries, and the tax sector is no exception. Streamlining of processes, data analysis to predict trends, automation of tasks and enhanced compliance through identification of errors are some of the areas which have been...

The MTCA has published a Guideline on the interpretation of one of the conditions for the exemption granted under article 5A(4)(c) of the Income Tax Act on the transfer of a dwelling house. View here.

The guidelines on the application of Article 6 of the Income Tax Act (CAP 123), in terms of which an Investment Services or Insurance Expatriate, as defined, may opt to be exempted from tax on income relating to certain personal expenses, which would otherwise be...

This week’s edition of the CFE Tax Top 5 looks at the following: European Commission Launches DAC Evaluation CFE – Accountacy Europe Members’ Only Webinar: New EU AML Rules – What Changes For Practitioners? #UseYourVote – European Elections – 6 to 9 June 2024 EU...

According to reports from the 14 May 2024 ECOFIN meeting, progress was made in the discussions around the VAT in the Digital Age package (see MIT News 8 December 2022), however no agreement was reached. The ViDA package, which is comprised of three parts: real-time...

At the ECOFIN meeting of 14 May 2024, Council reached an agreement on the so-called FASTER initiative which was proposed in June 2023 (See MIT news 23 June 2023). This initiative, aims to make withholding tax procedures in the EU safer and more efficient for...