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Malta Global Residence
Malta's tax product wearing a residence badge: qualify with a rental from €9,600 a year and hold a special status taxing remitted foreign income at a flat 15%.
Why it works
6 things the GRP buys
The 15% deal
Foreign income remitted to Malta taxed at a flat 15%, minimum €15,000 a year — foreign income kept offshore, untaxed.
Cheap qualification
Rent from €9,600/yr (south/Gozo €8,750) or buy from €220,000 — a fraction of the MPRP.
90/180 across the Area with the status.
The EU's anglophone tax base.
Spouse, children and dependent relatives share the status.
Roughly a quarter, through an authorised mandatory.
Who joins
Malta Global Residence: one application, the whole family
- Non-EU/EEA/Swiss
- Qualifying property held continuously
- Stable resources, insurance, clean record
- Shares the status
- And dependent relatives — included
Tax
- €15,000 minimum annual tax; no 183-day Malta requirement but no >183 days elsewhere
The requirements
The qualifying property
Rental — €9,600+/year
Lease in Malta (€8,750 in the south or Gozo), held for the duration — the cheapest door to a 15% EU tax status.
Purchase — €220,000+
€275,000 in central/north Malta, €220,000 in the south or Gozo — the owned-asset variant.
Procedure
Four steps to your Malta Global Residence card
Confidential screening against the databases the authorities use — refusal causes caught before anything is signed or paid.
Checklist, translations, apostilles — and the qualifying basis (income, company or asset) papered to the officer's standard.
Submitted through the official channel, biometrics scheduled; we track the file weekly and answer requisitions same-day.
Approval, cards for the whole family, and a renewal calendar we run so the status never lapses.
The honest map
What the Malta Global Residence brochures skip
- This is a tax status, not permanent residence — MPRP is the lifelong product
- The €15,000 minimum tax is due whether you remit or not
- Spend 183+ days in any other single country and the status wobbles — it wants Malta as your centre
- 15% flat with offshore income untouched — among Europe's cleanest legal positions
- Year-one all-in around €30k — a tax ruling at consumer prices
- Upgradable to MPRP without losing the property
FAQ
The questions that decide Malta Global Residence files
GRP or MPRP? +
GRP is the tax deal (cheap, renewable, conditional); MPRP is permanence (€169k+, lifelong). Many clients run GRP first, MPRP when committed.
What's actually taxed? +
Foreign income you remit to Malta at 15% (min €15k/yr); Malta-source income at 35%; unremitted foreign income — nothing.
Presence rules? +
No Maltese minimum, but no 183+ days in any other single jurisdiction — the status wants primacy.
Through whom? +
Applications run via authorised registered mandatories — ours is named in your engagement letter.
The 15% + passport play
GRP fixes the tax rate; a Caribbean passport fixes mobility. The two together cost less than one year of most clients' old tax bills. Compare the passports →
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Free preliminary Due Diligence, the document checklist, and your exact all-in number — before any engagement fee exists. Reply within one business day.