Pursuant to the adoption of the VAT Rates Directive (Council Directive (EU) 2022/542 of 5 April 2022), Malta adopted Legal Notice 231 of 2023 which amends the Eighth Schedule to the VAT Act (Chapter 406, Laws of Malta) resulting, with effect from 1st January 2024, in the application of a 12% VAT rate on several services, including the hiring of a pleasure boat to a person according to an agreement for any term or part of a term that, when added to the term of a previous hiring, of the same goods or of other goods of the same kind, to the said person during the previous twelve (12) months ending on the date of the beginning of the existing hiring, does not exceed five (5) weeks
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