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).