Malta’s Minister of Finance presented the government’s budget for 2014 on November 04, 2013.

The 2014 budget holds various measures including expense findings for business visionaries who offer apprenticeship positions and work arrangements. Expands in the extract charge on smokes and tobacco, fuel, alcohol mixed beverages, concrete, bunkering fuel and auto licenses are relied upon to bring an extra Eur21.4m of income to the Maltese government. The new duty rates went live on November 04, aside from the fuel extract charge, which will be expanded on January 01, 2014.