About Malta Property Tax
What an owner or seller of Maltese property actually pays: the final withholding tax on the transfer, and the options on rental income.
What is on this site
One question, "malta property tax", answered with a quote form that works on the page with no account, 3 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- Malta property transfer tax: 8%, 5%, 2% and the exemptions: The seller's final withholding tax under article 5A: 8% standard, 5% within five years, 2% and 7% and 10% cases, 12% on the gain for inherited property, and exemptions.
- Malta rental income tax: the 15% option and the alternative: Rental income in Malta can be taxed at 15% of the gross under article 31D, final and without deductions, or at the normal rates on the net. How the choice works.
- Selling inherited property in Malta: which rate applies to you: Inherited Maltese property is taxed on sale at 12% of the gain, 7% of the price, or the ordinary rates, depending on the date of death and how the property came to you.
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Malta Property Tax is a free introduction service operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd; we pass your details to Maltese tax advisers and notaries who respond to you directly. We may receive a fee from those providers; you pay nothing and are under no obligation. We are not tax advisers or notaries and nothing here is tax or legal advice. Rates are taken from the Income Tax Act as published on legislation.mt at the updated date above, and every one of them is conditional on facts recorded in a deed or on an election made to the Commissioner. We are not affiliated with the Malta Tax and Customs Administration or any Maltese authority.