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, the 31 December 2026 MRP/GRP deadline, and the 2027 Individual Tax Programme.
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 expat 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 31 December 2026 deadline to apply before the ITP replaces it.
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.
Read the guide →Fifty-four YouTube channels, Instagram and TikTok accounts, podcasts, references and communities covering Malta and Gozo in English. Subscriber and follower counts read off the platforms themselves, Reddit member counts exact from Reddit’s own API, and the gaps named rather than padded. Curated 17 September 2026.
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