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An overview of Malta Trust and Trustee Law and the use of the Malta Trust for asset holding and wealth planning purposes.

Maltese Citizenship can be attained through various pathways. Whilst it can be attained through birth, descent, marriage and adoption, it could also be attained through the various programmes available to investors.

The Russian Federation's President announced a military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and Russian armed forces launched an attack on Ukraine. The measures include a ban on all transactions with Russia's Central Bank, as well as a ban of Russian airlines flying over EU airspace and landing at EU airports. The exclusion of key Russian banks from the SWIFT system, the world's most widely used financial messaging system, is also included in the new measures. The Council took additional

Learn more about the duties and responsibilities of Malta Company Directors. See how the duties of Maltese Company Directors can be categorized into general and administrative ones

Definition: 'Tax domicile' is complex and adhesive common law concept, adopted in its simpler form in Maltese tax law, and refers to the country of strongest connection of a taxpayer. Regardless of where a person resides, that person’s tax domicile continues to connect a person to the country of domicile, giving rise to tax obligations in that country on certain income.

The Malta Act to Amend the Companies Act was published on the 26th of October 2021. This Act is based on the previous Bill No. 233 of 6th July 2021 with changes related to the use of digital tools and processes as well as particularities related to appointment and the holding of the office of directors and other officers.

The Key Employee Initiative (KEI) provides a fast-tracked work permit applications to highly-specialized Third-Country Nationals employed in Malta. The KEI facilitates the issuing of work/residence permits to prospective key employees offered hightly technical or managerial posts in Malta, within as little as 5 working days from the application’s work permit submission date.

Malta personal tax incentives for Highly Qualified Persons aimed at attracting highly specialized senior executives of companies operating in the Assisted Reproductive Technologies ART industry to relocate and occupy c-suite positions in Maltese ART companies. Under these personal tax incentives apply to senior company executives occupying senior positions in the ART, fertility and IVF sector.

Learn more about AC Milan trademark battle over stationary, and why its attempt to register its club crest as an international trademark was opposed by a stationary supplier

Malta recently introduced an attractive 15% flat rate of tax for individuals working in the aviation sector who can meet a number of requirements in the relevant legal notice.