Malta: Wealth Management

Malta has introduced the Youth Enterprise Regulations, creating a groundbreaking corporate framework that enables 16-17-year-olds to incorporate and operate limited liability companies. This novel structure combines entrepreneurial opportunity with mandatory mentorship, parental oversight, and regulatory safeguards designed to foster early-stage business skills while protecting young founders.

Company Formation in Malta 2026 - a short video that answers all questions.

The Malta company formation and registration fees are payable to the Malta Business Registrar of Companies upon the Malta company formation and are calculated according to the company's authorised share capital.

Malta has introduced a new Individual Tax Programme consolidating four existing residence schemes into a single framework effective January 2027. While maintaining the attractive 15% tax rate on qualifying foreign income, the reforms introduce higher economic thresholds, renewable five-year status periods, and enhanced compliance requirements, signaling Malta's evolution toward attracting genuine international residents committed to establishing meaningful economic presence.

As its European customer base continued to expand, a US-based distributor of industrial equipment found that its existing business model was no longer suited to its long-term growth ambitions.

Malta’s corporate tax regime is designed to support international businesses, offering a compliant and flexible framework for companies operating across borders.

With a potential internal market of 450 million consumers, the European Union is one of the biggest markets in the world.

Located in the heart of the Mediterranean, between the north of Africa and southern Europe, Malta is a modern international commercial hub with a global draw..

Further to its efforts to place Malta as a hub for digital innovation, the Maltese Parliament has, on the 26th of June, approved forthcoming laws concerning Distributed Ledger Technology (‘DLT').