Advantages

– Status within EU permits greater freedom than traditional offshore locations.
– Favourable tax system approved by the EU (on the OECD white list)
– Political stability.
– Excellent communications, including daily air-links to most of Europe.
– 60+ Double Tax Treaties with all European countries and elsewhere.
– Availability of Protected Cell Companies and re-domiciliation regulations that allow insurance companies operating in other jurisdictions to transfer to Malta.
– Comparatively low cost jurisdiction in the EU.
– MFSA’s positive approach to regulation of the insurance industry.
– Malta’s sound company law (which is modelled on English Law).