Malta – Relocating to the Mediterranean
Oct2025

Malta – Relocating to the Mediterranean

07 October 2025
Avoid costly mistakes with professional planning and advice

Malta offers sunshine, quality of life and attractive tax conditions – no wonder that more and more entrepreneurs and other active individuals are taking the plunge and moving there.

But be careful: if you move without preparation, you quickly risk high tax burdens, legal problems and unnecessary trouble with the authorities at home and abroad.

Why professional planning is crucial

Moving to Malta is not a simple change of location, but a complex process with many legal and tax implications. Even when leaving your home country, it is important to consider crucial points correctly:

  • Exit tax & disentanglement tax
  • Extended limited tax liability
  • Social security and health insurance
  • Severance payments, company pensions & inheritances
  • Remaining real estate or business assets

In addition, double taxation agreements, national law in the home and destination countries, and EU regulations apply. Errors in the structure can quickly lead to double taxation or significant financial disadvantages.

Structures in Malta: exploiting opportunities, avoiding risks

The right steps must also be taken in Malta itself – from residence status to company formation and correct

company administration to social security. Particularly important: the right timing. If you act too early or too late, you can easily fall into tax or legal traps.

Your advantage with professional support

With forward-looking and professional planning, risks can be avoided and opportunities optimally exploited. We help you to:

  • make your move tax-efficient,
  • prevent unnecessary double taxation,
  • set up the right structures in Malta,
  • and secure your new start both legally and fiscally.

This will lay the foundation for a smooth and successful new start in the Mediterranean – without any nasty surprises later on.

Act now: Secure professional support early on to ensure your move to Malta is a success. Contact Dr. Kresse International Group: with competent German advocates who are based in Malta and registered and licensed here as European lawyers, you have the best expert partners in terms of legally and fiscally secure company structures and their professional support; this is available after our initial free consultation.