On the 5^th April 2022, the European Parliament adopted Council Directive (EU) 2022/542, which gives Member States wider rights to use reduced VAT rates.

Following this adoption, and as from 1^st January 2024, Malta has introduced a new VAT rate to the already existing reduced VAT rates.

The newly implemented 12% VAT rate will apply to:

• Services consisting of the care of the human body required to be delivered by a person in the exercise of any profession regulated by the Health Care Professions Act (Cap.464), including services supplied in the course of a health studio business of similar business, but not including exempt supplies referred to in item 11 of Part Two of the Fifth Schedule;
• Hiring of a pleasure boat to a person according to an agreement for any term of part of a term that, when added to the term of a previous hiring, of the same goods or of other goods of the same kind, to the said person during the previous twelve months ending on the date of the beginning of the existing hiring, does not exceed five weeks;
• Securities custody services (unless they qualify as VAT-exempt); and
• Management of credit and credit guarantees by a person or body other than those who granted the credit.

Should you require further information in relation to these new changes, please get in touch with Michael Caruana on mcaruana@pkfmalta.com.

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