STEWARD holds the compliance work a Maltese company owes — the books, VAT, payroll, the corporate tax return, the AML file, the audit — and stops exactly where your judgment has to start.
Each area of the file carries its own status, so the question "where is this client" has one answer rather than five.
Posts bank statements and invoices to the ledger; anything it can't place confidently is listed for a decision, not guessed.
Decide the exceptions, approve the run.
Works the return from the posted ledger each period, with the EC Sales List and Intrastat beside it.
Review the treatment exceptions, file it.
Monthly pay runs, the FS5 with each, the FS7 that reconciles the year.
Approve the run, file the returns.
Builds the return from the tax pack and financial statements, checked against its own recomputation.
Review the computation, sign, submit.
The identity file, the ownership chain to beneficial owners, screening decisions, review dates that fall due.
Make the risk decision, sign it.
The file from acceptance through planning, materiality, risk, testing and completion, to the point of the report.
Every judgement, and the opinion.
Engagements, evidence requests, correspondence on your letterhead, time, fees, what's unbilled.
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It's exact rather than configurable, because it only has to be right about Malta.
Chargeable income from accounting profit, allocated across the five tax accounts. Provisional tax instalments, fiscal units where a group has elected, and the refund fractions that follow a distribution.
The return by period from posted data, plus the recapitulative statement and Intrastat where the client trades across member states.
FS4 on file per employee, FS5 with each monthly remittance, FS3 and FS7 at year end.
The registers a Maltese company must keep, the annual return, and changes of particulars owed to the MBR.
The CDD file, beneficial ownership, screening for sanctions and adverse media, and suspicious transaction reports drafted for the reporting officer.
Acceptance and independence, materiality struck from a stated benchmark, working papers, misstatements, and the engagement quality review recorded before the report is signed.
This matters more than any feature, so it's stated plainly rather than buried in a terms page.
It does not file anything. It prepares to the point of filing. A person submits.
It does not confirm a figure. Every rate and threshold stays marked unconfirmed until a named person checks it against the authority linked beside it.
It does not send a suspicious transaction report. It drafts one. The reporting officer decides and sends.
It does not give an opinion. It assembles the file the opinion is signed against.
It does not start on a client it doesn't know. Customer due diligence gates the rest of the file.
When it can't do something, it says what's missing and what would resolve it, rather than failing quietly.
STEWARD is at the stage that suits a firm willing to work through one VAT period or one tax return with someone on the other end of an email — not a firm that wants to buy a finished product off a shelf today. That's by design: we'd rather be straight about where it is than oversell it.
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