Malta

Visa facts

• Maximum stay: 1460 days
• Processing time: 30 - 30 days
• Dependents allowed: yes
• Remote work permission: explicitly allowed
• Renewal path: Renewable (official source indicates extension or renewal is available).
• Income requirement: 42000 EUR / year
• Savings requirement: Data not published

Tax and compliance

Resident treatment: CFR guidance indicates individuals who are ordinarily resident/domiciled are taxed on worldwide income, while ordinarily resident non-domiciled persons are taxed on Malta-source income plus foreign income remitted to Malta. Non-resident treatment: non-residents are taxed on Malta-source income and gains. Foreign income exemption: partial (remittance-basis treatment for non-domiciled residents). Assumptions: residency trigger set to 183 days based on CFR residence guidance; employee social contribution uses Class 1 employee rate (10%); effective PIT uses top published individual rate (35%). Confidence: medium (residence outcomes also depend on domicile/ordinary residence facts).

Cost and infrastructure

• Monthly cost baseline: $1,647
• Rent (1BR city center): $1,020
• Internet: $35
• Coworking: Data not published

Method: LivingCost country-level USD averages retrieved 2026-02-27. Average baseline is the source's 'Total with rent' (one person). Poor baseline is computed as without-rent basket + cheap 1BR + utility bill (1 person) + internet; comfortable baseline is computed as without-rent basket + city-center 1BR + utility bill (1 person) + internet. Baselines: poor $1609.37, average $1647.44, comfortable $1799.74. monthly_coworking_usd is null because this source does not publish an auditable country-level coworking monthly pass metric. Source date context: LivingCost page content current as of retrieval date. Confidence: medium (aggregated/crowdsourced country averages, significant intra-country city variance).