Malta Company Formation Advice: Decide the Structure Before You Commit
Most owners settle on a Malta company first and work out the structure afterwards. That order is expensive to reverse. We assess whether a Malta company fits, which form holds up, and what it costs to run. In writing, before you commit.
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- A written recommendation on entity form, ownership and where the substance sits
- Your tax position assessed within legal boundaries, before a filing fixes it
- Annual obligations and running costs set out, so the decision includes year two
- An honest answer on whether Malta is the right jurisdiction for you at all
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Andrew Fenech
Business Development Manager
Claude Mifsud Wismayer
Head of Client Relationships
Julian Sammut
Risk & Compliance Manager
Wilfred Sammut
Banking Manager
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Is a Malta Company the Right Move for You?
Three situations bring owners to this question. The answer is different in each, and in one of them it is no.
You Trade Across Borders
Revenue already comes from several countries and you want a base inside the EU. A Malta company can serve that well, provided the company genuinely operates from Malta rather than existing on paper.
You Are Restructuring a Group
A holding company, a change of ownership, or moving an existing business. The question is rarely whether Malta is possible. It is whether Malta improves the position you already hold.
You Are Not Sure Malta Applies
Sometimes your home jurisdiction serves you better, or the substance a Malta structure requires costs more than it returns. Where that is the case, we say so and the conversation ends there.
What the Advice Covers
The engagement produces a recommendation you can act on or set aside. It does not produce a filing.
Jurisdiction Fit
Whether a Malta company serves your situation, measured against the structure you already have and the places your business operates from. Where it does not fit, that is the finding we give you.
Entity Form and Ownership
Which company form suits the activity, how the shares are held, and who sits on the board. Explained in plain terms, with the trade-offs named rather than glossed over.
Tax Position
How the Maltese corporate tax framework and the shareholder refund mechanism would apply to you, within legal boundaries. Malta grants those benefits for genuine economic activity, and we assess yours against that standard.
Substance, Governance and Running Cost
What a Malta company has to do here for the structure to hold: keep an office, employ people, take its decisions locally. Alongside the annual audit, accounting and statutory filing obligations, scheduled and priced.
How the Advisory Engagement Runs
Four steps, ending at a recommendation. What you do with it is your decision.
Initial Consultation
We listen to what you are trying to achieve and what already exists: the current structure, the markets, the people. Free, and without obligation on either side.
Structure Assessment
We work the options through against your circumstances: entity form, ownership, where substance sits, and how the Maltese tax rules would apply to you within legal boundaries.
Written Recommendation
You get our recommendation in writing: the structure we advise, the reasoning behind it, the obligations that follow, and what the company costs to run each year. The advisory engagement ends here, whether or not you go further.
Your Decision
You decide whether to act on the recommendation, and nothing obliges you to. If you go ahead, the corporate work that follows is coordinated inside the Borg Galea Group, and you keep the same people you have been speaking to.
Initial Consultation
We listen to what you are trying to achieve and what already exists: the current structure, the markets, the people. Free, and without obligation on either side.
Structure Assessment
We work the options through against your circumstances: entity form, ownership, where substance sits, and how the Maltese tax rules would apply to you within legal boundaries.
Written Recommendation
You get our recommendation in writing: the structure we advise, the reasoning behind it, the obligations that follow, and what the company costs to run each year. The advisory engagement ends here, whether or not you go further.
Your Decision
You decide whether to act on the recommendation, and nothing obliges you to. If you go ahead, the corporate work that follows is coordinated inside the Borg Galea Group, and you keep the same people you have been speaking to.
Frequently Asked Questions
Talk Through Your Malta Structure
Tell us what you are planning and where you stand today. Every question answered within one business day. The initial consultation is free and carries no obligation.
You will speak with
Andrew Fenech
Business Development Manager
Claude Mifsud Wismayer
Head of Client Relationships
Julian Sammut
Risk & Compliance Manager
Wilfred Sammut
Banking Manager
- Free initial consultation
- Response within 24 hours
- No obligations whatsoever
Malta Company Formation Advice: Decide the Structure Before You Commit
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