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Why
Malta and Maltese Companies
The significant advantages of
Malta as an international business centre:
- Member of the European Union
- Strategic location at the
crossroads of three continents, serving as Europe's Middle Eastern outpost
- Favourable tax regime
- Liberal foreign direct
investment regime
- Simplified administrative
procedures for acquiring necessary permits
- Bilateral investment
agreements with 17 countries
- Low set up and operating
costs
- Highly qualified,
well-educated and multilingual labour force
- Double tax treaties with 40
countries
- Freedom of movement of
foreign currency
- Availability of Freezone
Area
- Efficient legal, accounting
and banking services
- European standard of living
- Pleasant climate and
agreeable topography
- Excellent telecommunications
- Democratic country with a
free market economy
- Political stability
- Low crime rate: one of the
lowest in Europe
Other benefits of Malta
companies:
- Absence of CFC legislation;
- Competitive fees for company
formation and administration;
- Low capital requirements;
- Strong legal system based on
English common law;
- Access to the EU
Parent-Subsidiary Directive and EU Interest and Royalty Directive
(no withholding taxes are due over dividend, interest and royalty payments
from companies resident in other EU-countries to a Cyprus company);
- A significant number of
tax treaties.
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