Remi D. 
Forming the subsidiary takes a few days. Deciding how it sits inside the group decides everything that follows, and that part usually gets settled long after the certificate arrives, by which point some of the useful options have closed. Most guidance on setting up a company in Malta stops at incorporation, which is fine for … Read more
Malta’s single 5% gaming tax is about to disappear. From 1st October 2026, Type 1 gaming services are taxed at 15% and Types 2, 3 and 4 at 10%, under Legal Notices 84 and 86 of 2026, published in the Government Gazette on 1st April. Read the headline and it looks like the tax tripled. … Read more
Three questions get asked as though they were one. Can I own a Maltese company. Can I run it from abroad. Can I move to Malta and work there. They sound related, and they are answered by entirely different bodies of law. The confusion has a cost. Founders assume that setting up a company in … Read more
Most founders considering Malta think they face two choices. Keep the foreign company where it is and accept its tax and regulatory position, or wind it up and incorporate a new company in Malta. Both have real costs, and both miss a third option that has existed in Maltese law since 2002. A company can … Read more