Claim: A new legal notice exempts all pensioners’ income, including non-pension income, from tax. Verdict: The new legal notice only applies to income from pensions, not from other income sources. However, other measures exempt pensioners' additional income from tax, albeit to a slightly lesser extent. A budget promise to double the threshold under
The government said Tuesday has finalized a major tax reform that will see thousands of pensioners benefit from expanded tax exemptions on both their pensions and additional income. This marks the completion of a multi-year process that began in 2022, designed to ensure that retirees are not unfairly penalized by high tax brackets when they have more
Nationalist Party MPs Graham Bencini and Adrian Delia on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Robert Abela of misleading pensioners over a tax exemption announcement made during a political activity in Naxxar last week, saying that a recently published legal notice contradicts Abela's statement that pensioners with another income, including from rentals,