English is an official language. Qualifying retirees pay a flat 15% on the foreign income they bring in. There's no annual property tax and no inheritance tax. Here's everything else — from official sources, checked and dated.
Retirement Programme, MPRP, Global Residence, Nomad Permit — 2025–26 costs, and what the citizenship-by-investment shutdown means.
4 guides → Guide hubThe remittance basis explained, the 15% programmes, no property or inheritance tax, and how US Social Security is treated.
Read → Guide hubWho gets free public care at Mater Dei, why most American and Canadian retirees need private insurance, and the €100,000 policy rule.
Read → Guide hubThe AIP permit for non-EU buyers, Special Designated Areas, 5% stamp duty, and what prices did in 2025.
Read → Guide hubRents by area, subsidised utilities, free resident bus travel, and what a couple actually spends per month.
Read → Guide hubThe single permit, the €45,000 Key Employee fast track, remote work rules, and the missing US totalization agreement.
Read → Guide hubWhy your US or Canadian licence can't be exchanged, bringing pets (tapeworm rule included), utilities, driving on the left.
Read → Guide hubSliema, Valletta, the quieter north, the cheaper south, and Gozo — real rents and honest trade-offs.
Read →15% tax on remitted income, €7,500 minimum tax, the 75% pension rule, and the property thresholds — step by step.
Read the guide → Visas & ResidencyThe 2025 rules in full — every fee, the €375,000 property line, and what "permanent" actually means.
Read the guide → Tax & FinanceMalta taxes what you bring in, not what you earn worldwide. How it works, the €5,000 minimum, and the US filing catch.
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