Just look at how Henley & Partners is selling our passports (and even before parliament has voted on the legislation)
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November 3, 2013 at 7:09pm
Taken directly from the letter which Henley & Partners in Canada sent in response to an enquiry it received about the purchase of a Maltese passport:
An alternative citizenship and passport is a powerful tool for international tax planning, it gives you extra privacy in banking and investment, and most importantly perhaps, citizenship and a passport from a small, peaceful country can save your life when travelling and in times of political unrest, civil war, terrorism, and other delicate situations.
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One step away from mentioning the targeted countries.
But they said they are going to be highly networked people with plenty of talent, not with plenty of problems.
Let’s stop this bullsh*t about the Maltese passport being useful to individuals who are rich and who obey the laws in countries whose governments are corrupt and despotic.
I cannot imagine how one can survive and become rich in countries run by corrupt and despotic governments unless one joins the bandwagon and corrupts oneself.
So we push back asylum seekers who risk their lives to get here, because Manuel Mallia says they might include terrorists and other dangerous people, but then we welcome those who have Eur650,000 and whose background/origin is unknown; and we are to rely on Henley’s due diligence because Manuel Mallia says that’s fine.
This from a government that appointed a consultant blacklisted by the World Bank and another consultant who is currently under investigation by the European Commission, for irregular dealings.
Where is the FIAU when you need it?
I’d love to know, down the line, whether the university entry requirements will drop the compulsory Maltese for the children of Maltese ‘citizens’.
Can you imagine the outcry when say, the children of Russians who have bought Maltese passports are allowed entry to University without the anguish that us, English speaking families, have gone through year after year – turning our children into Maltese haters because of the ignorant notion that force feeding Maltese will ensure the language endures!
[Daphne – While I agree with you wholeheartedly that Maltese should not be an entry requirement for a university where the language of instruction is English, and especially when the rules discriminate between Maltese citizens and non-Maltese, I have absolutely no time or patience for the ‘struggles’ of ‘English-speaking’ families whose children can’t get an O-level in Maltese. Oh, and another thing: it’s not the system that force-feeds children with Maltese, but their parents. It’s just another school subject, for heaven’s sake. It’s hardly more difficult than physics or chemistry.]
This is interesting actually. As far as I am aware a Maltese citizen is taxed on his or her worldwide income at the income tax rates, highest rate of which is 35%. So are these citizens going to remit 35% of all their earnings to the Maltese government?
[Daphne – You are wrong. Tax is tied to domicile if you are not an employee and to the country of your employment if you are an employee. A Maltese citizen who is employed in Manchester pays tax in Britain, not Malta. A Maltese citizen who makes a living from, say, writing books will, even if he lives in Britain, have to pay tax in Malta unless he is domiciled in Britain. This is all broadly speaking, but that’s the general principle. Outside the EU, more complicated issues come into play, like double taxation agreements and so on, but those are outside the purposes of this discussion.]
I would continue with that statement with: It is so peaceful, it only takes three cruise missiles to put it completely out of action for months if not years, at a basic cost of 1.6 million dollars.
‘and even before parliament has voted on the legislation’
Ghax kienu jghidu li l-PN kien partit arroganti u jaghddi min fuq l-irjus tal-poplu.
If that isn’t implying a change of identity to get away. Delicate situations indeed.
Perhaps the bloke who was sitting next to Muscat in that seminar can explain.
Unless we’re second class citizens who can’t be privy to this ‘scheme’.