A 16% corporate tax rate does not automatically make Romania cheaper. A 35% headline rate does not automatically make Malta expensive. For a holding company, the headline rate is often the least useful number. What matters is how dividends enter the company, how a future [...]
There’s a conversation we’ve had in our office more times than we can count. A business owner, typically someone running two or three operating companies across different jurisdictions, often raises the same concern: “I need a holding company. I’ve narrowed it down to Malta or [...]
If you’ve ever looked at your international group structures and thought “this could work better,” Malta is that sunny little dot in the Mediterranean that makes holding-company life a lot more pleasant. One of the reasons? Malta’s Participation Exemption Regime – a set of rules [...]
