maltas government under pressure
Malta's government is coming under increasing pressure to cancel plans to offer citizenship to non-EU nationals in exchange for money‚ in the wake of a call by the European Parliament last week to scrap it.
Malta's government is coming under increasing pressure to cancel plans to offer citizenship to non-EU nationals in exchange for money‚ in the wake of a call by the European Parliament last week to scrap it.
The increasingly controversial question of whether EU member states should be allowed to offer citizenship to non-EU nationals in exchange for money will be debated by the European Parliament tomorrow.
MC Trustees‚ a UK-based group of companies that have been administering pension schemes in Britain and‚ since 2010‚ Malta‚ has launched a new Maltese QROP scheme in partnership with Platform One.
Malta has become the latest country to sign a FATCA intergovernmental agreement with the US.
The European Parliament next month will consider the issue of EU countries offering residency and citizenship to non-EU nationals in exchange for money, Malta's Green Party has revealed.
UK and European politicians are putting pressure on Malta’s government not to implement a controversial scheme that would permit high net worth individuals from outside the EU to buy passports.
Maltese government officials have been forced to postpone implementation of a controversial scheme that would permit high net worth individuals from outside the European Union to become Maltese and thus EU citizens, in exchange for paying a set fee.
Nigel Green, the chief executive and founder of global IFA group deVere, has sold 2.5% of his shares in the STM Group, the London-listed cross-border provider of QROPS and other cross-border financial products.
Representatives for the Maltese and New Zealand governments have signed an agreement to allow the portability between the two countries of Superannuation and Veterans’ pensions.
Trireme Pensions Services (Malta) has received HM Revenue & Customs recognition for two QROPS products, adding to the growing profile of this jurisdiction in the international pensions marketplace.
Fiduciary and fund services specialist Abacus has been granted a retirement scheme administrator licence by the Malta Financial Services Authority, paving the way for a QROPS product launch "in the near future&rsquo".
All Maltese pension providers and administrators should meet a 17 June deadline to file an information disclosure document with the French tax authorities on behalf of “any French-resident beneficiaries”, according to a Maltese pension scheme association.