Advantages
- - Status within EU permits greater freedom than traditional offshore locations.
- - Tax regime includes the possibility of a minimal net effective tax rate.
- - Political stability.
- - Excellent communications, including daily air-links to most of Europe.
- - 51 Double Tax Treaties with all European countries and elsewhere.
- - Availability of Protected Cell Companies and re-domiciliation regulations that allow insurance companies operating in other jurisdictions to transfer to Malta.
- - Comparatively low cost jurisdiction in the EU.
- - MFSA’s positive approach to regulation of the insurance industry.
- - Malta’s sound company law (which is modelled on English Law).