If residency is a meant to be a factor, how does is it expected that the family comes into play?

In relevant cases that arise where there is dual tax residency contested, and where the new Maltese citizen cannot provide sufficient proof of his 183 days in Malta, any serious DTT analysis will take other factors into account such as schooling.

“Good faith” should also translate to “good practice.”

Of course, that in itself is a totally illegal concept abroad. Also, how will the rental income from such an arrangement be declared?

The Government assisting and promoting corrupt practice?

All this “in good faith?”

This scheme was scandalous from the start and it is still scandalous. The prostitution of Malta has not changed one iota.

I simply cannot believe that the Nationalist Party, and all other Maltese people of goodwill, are going to sit back and do nothing about it.

After all we all know that the government does not have an electoral mandate to implement this scheme.

Many are refused citizenship.

So, one of the children of a millionaire can apply for citizenship, spend the better part of a year in a boarding school and be eligible for citizenship.

The millionaire would then gain his passport as a relative of “the applicant”, without having to stay in Malta at all.

Presumably the due diligence is also going to be limited to “the applicant”, whoever it might be.

Henley and Partners advise their clients to buy proprerty because the cost is recoverable through rent to their clients.

Now, tell me, does a property owner ordinarily live in a property rented out to third parties? No.

It follows that lessors can make similar arrangements with sub-lessees, ad infinitum. Henley and Partners will facilitate the process, picking up a commission on every transaction involving their next client.

OK, later this evening then.

Good one, Ciccio. I watched Owen Bonnici on TV this morning and it is clear that the Labour Party wants to promote this scheme as a highway of legalised loop-holes, through which any applicant who is not acting in good faith will be able to drive comfortably.

The first loop-hole being that only the applicant needs, sort of, to prove his stay in Malta, but his four wives, twenty offspring, and countless in-laws will get their passports without ever having to come to Malta except to collect them.

If the Labour Party weren’t so deeply engaged in fabricating lies, they would themselves be introducing clear-cut definitions of ‘effective residency’ and ‘dependants’ in the legal notice and not avoid even discussing them on the excuse that no amendments can be made to a legal notice.

I just trust that Vivienne Reding, the EU Commissioner, is being kept well-informed about this and understands that she is not dealing with people who are in good faith.