Malta VAT registration threshold
The turnover at which VAT/GST registration becomes compulsory in Malta, with the period the test runs over, the rule for non-established suppliers, and any separate treatment of imported digital services.
| Current value | 35000 EUR |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2025-01-01 |
| Official source | MTCA 'Guidelines in relation to the VAT rules applicable to small enterprises' (7 April 2025), quoting Part One of the Sixth Schedule: a small enterprise is "any taxable person whose domestic annual turnover during the preceding calendar year, if any, does not exceed the domestic threshold (EUR 35,000) at the time of application", and "a person would not be eligible to register under article 11 where their turnover for the calendar year in which the application is made has already exceeded the domestic threshold". |
| Last verified | 2026-08-08 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
PERIOD BASIS: Two-limb calendar-year test: eligible as a small enterprise if domestic annual turnover in the PRECEDING calendar year did not exceed EUR 35,000 AND turnover in the CURRENT calendar year at the time of application has not already exceeded it; if domestic annual turnover exceeds EUR 35,000 at any point in-year, the person ceases to qualify and must shift to a normal article 10 registration (no tolerance band is provided in the MTCA guidelines). NON-ESTABLISHED SUPPLIERS: Strictly, Malta's threshold governs an EXEMPT registration, not registration itself — every taxable person must register under article 10 or article 11. Non-established persons: nil threshold (article 10 registration from the first taxable supply). From 1 Jan 2025, under Act XXXVIII of 2024 transposing Directive (EU) 2020/285, article 11B lets a taxable person established in another Member State claim the small-enterprise exemption for supplies in Malta via the cross-border SME scheme (EUR 100,000 Union annual turnover ceiling, EX identification in home state) without an article 10 registration. Non-EU established persons cannot use it. IMPORTED DIGITAL SERVICES: Non-EU suppliers of B2C digital/TBE services: nil threshold — Maltese VAT from the first supply, registrable via the non-Union OSS. Separately, an article 11 registrant importing services from abroad (EU or non-EU) must ALSO register under article 12 and self-charge Maltese VAT on those purchases, and must register under article 12 for intra-EU acquisitions above the EUR 10,000 acquisitions threshold — the exempt registration does not shelter imported services. Engine traps: (1) Malta has no registration-free zone — article 11 is itself a registration, so 'below threshold' still means registered (with simplified obligations); (2) the single EUR 35,000 threshold replaced the old multi-tier category thresholds only on 1 Jan 2025; (3) turnover now counts only supplies taking place in Malta but INCLUDES exempt immovable-property, financial and insurance transactions unless ancillary — pre-2025 logic (all taxable-by-nature supplies, excluding exempt-without-credit) gives wrong answers; (4) related-persons anti-abuse: non-individuals must aggregate the proportionate domestic turnover of >10%-related persons (Sixth Schedule, Part One, item 4); (5) backdated article 11 registration is impossible, and switching from article 10 takes effect only the first day of the following month; (6) an article 11 person supplying B2B services into other Member States must register under article 12 as well. Researched against the primary instrument and then attacked by an independent adversarial verification pass before being served (2026-08-08). Where that pass refuted a citation, the correction it proved has been applied; no headline threshold was refuted.
Get it programmatically
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