Read this Facebook post by Clyde Caruana, a slightly more explicit version of his Ministry's earlier statement about the Ċaqnu tax discount story. Clyde Caruana's statement shows that he appreciates he'll find it difficult to convince anyone to pay tax on time if he's giving sweet deals to spectacular tax dodgers. If that's true, "categorical" [...]

The full details are here. Times of Malta this morning reported, Charles Polidano got a huge chunk of the €40 million tax bill he's been accumulating since the 1990s shaved off. They reported he made a down-payment and entered into an agreement to pay the rest over time. But some of it was also taken [...]

UPDATED: 15:07. The Government has denied in a statement this afternoon Times of Malta's report of this morning saying iċ-Ċaqnu's €40 million tax bill has been slashed to €10 million. Read the denial here. Read the facts in the Times of Malta’s report. Iċ-Ċaqnu owed the taxman €40 million accumulated over 25 years. The news [...]

Corruption in the form of bribery and misuse of public funds is a major obstacle to democracy and economic development in many of the world’s poor countries. - Ulla Tørnæs, Denmark’s Minister for Development Cooperation. If you take a look at social media, you would think that on this sun-kissed rock, the Almighty has sent [...]