Practical support for Malta-based and international businesses that need clear bookkeeping, VAT compliance, payroll, company formation coordination, and tax workflows.
Local Malta compliance knowledge with practical cross-border support.
"We bridge the gap between traditional corporate compliance and modern, digital-first business needs."
I help business owners keep administration and workflows organised and compliant. Each engagement is hands-on: records, filings, recurring deadlines, operational questions, and coordination with licensed third-party professionals where required.
Taxceo is built for companies that want clear explanations, responsive support, and digital workflows that reduce friction. We support Malta-based businesses, foreign-owned Maltese companies, and international groups that need a reliable operator on the ground. We operate with a lean, efficient model.
Do you work with Malta-based and international businesses?
Yes. Taxceo supports Malta-based companies, foreign-owned Maltese companies, and international businesses that need local bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, and tax compliance support connected to Malta.
Can you support international businesses operating in Malta?
Yes. We regularly work with cross-border structures and can support founders, directors, and finance teams that need Malta compliance support while coordinating with advisers or stakeholders outside Malta.
Do you provide company formation services directly?
We can coordinate company formation support and related administration. Where Maltese law requires licensed corporate services, the regulated work is handled with licensed Corporate Service Provider and legal partners.
Which Malta compliance services can you help with?
Bookkeeping and reporting, VAT registrations and returns, payroll processing support, recurring compliance calendars, and practical tax compliance coordination for Malta-focused operations.
Do you work with Xero and digital bookkeeping systems?
Yes. Xero and related digital workflows are part of how we improve reporting visibility, recurring finance processes, and document handling for growing companies.
"As a growing business, we needed someone who could guide us through bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, and compliance without overcomplicating things. Taxceo provided exactly that: structured, clear, and dependable support."
Ms. K Schulz
Director
Approved client review
"Cleaven helped us understand our VAT position and ensured our returns were submitted correctly and on time. The guidance was detailed, professional, and clearly based on strong technical experience."
Dr. M Schneider
Director / Lawyer
Approved client review
"What stands out most is the personal approach. We are not treated like just another file. Cleaven takes the time to understand the business, explain the numbers, and make sure everything is compliant."
Lisa Ulrike
Director
An Administration Team That Grows With You.
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We are committed to protecting the privacy of our website visitors and clients. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we collect, how it is used, and the steps we take to ensure its protection.
Who We Are
Taxceo is a professional services provider operating in the areas of Bookkeeping, tax, and software integration services, managed by Cleaven Attard.
Data Controller
Cleaven Attard, acting as Taxceo, is the Data Controller responsible for your personal information.
Information We Collect and How We Use It
We collect and process personal data that is necessary for the provision of our services and for our legitimate business interests. This includes, but is not limited to, the following categories of information:
Identity and Contact Data: Name, address, email address, telephone numbers, and other contact details, which we use to communicate with you and manage our business relationship.
Financial Data: Bank account details, payment information, tax identification numbers, and financial transactions required for Bookkeeping and tax compliance services.
Service Data: Details about the services we provide to you, including company information, statutory filings, and compliance records.
Technical Data: Information about your visits to our website, including IP address, browser type, and location data, to improve our website and services (see "Cookies and Website Data" below).
Lawful Basis for Processing
We rely on the following legal bases for processing your personal data:
Contractual Necessity: Processing is necessary to perform a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering a contract.
Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation (e.g., anti-money laundering, tax reporting).
Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) where your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (e.g., managing our relationship, service improvement, direct marketing where appropriate).
Consent: In limited circumstances, we may rely on your explicit consent for specific processing activities.
Data Security
We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Sharing Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary to administer our working relationship with you, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so. These third parties include:
Regulators, government authorities (e.g., tax and customs departments, MFSA, Identita Malta) and law enforcement agencies.
Professional service providers, including lawyers, auditors, and insurers, who provide their services to us.
Third-party service providers and IT providers who assist with our business operations (e.g., cloud hosting, email service).
Licensed Corporate Service Providers (CSPs) in Malta with whom we collaborate to provide licensed services (as Taxceo is not a licensed CSP).
International Data Transfers
In some cases, we may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), including to countries that may not offer the same level of data protection. We will only do so if appropriate safeguards are in place, such as EU-approved standard contractual clauses, to ensure your data receives a similar level of protection.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, Bookkeeping, or reporting requirements. This period is typically seven years after the end of the business relationship, as required by Maltese law for most tax and corporate records.
Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have the right to:
Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of inaccurate personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data (the "right to be forgotten").
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data (data portability).
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
Cookies and Website Data
Our website uses essential and non-essential cookies. Essential cookies are necessary for the website to function. Non-essential cookies, such as those used for analytics, help us understand how visitors interact with our website. The data collected may include: time of visit, pages visited, referring site details, browser/OS type, and device information. This data is used for our legitimate purpose of improving the website and does not outweigh your privacy rights. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this policy at any time. We encourage you to review it frequently.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer:
Email: [email protected]
Terms of Service
1. Introduction These terms of service ("Terms") govern your use of the website at https://taxceo.eu/ ("Our Site"). By using Our Site, you confirm that you accept these Terms and agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use Our Site.
2. Other Applicable Terms
These Terms also refer to and incorporate the following additional terms:
Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us.
Our Disclaimer, which sets out limitations on the information provided on Our Site.
3. Information About Us
Our Site is operated by Cleaven Attard, trading as Taxceo.
4. Changes to These Terms
We may amend these Terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use Our Site, please check these Terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These Terms were last updated on February 14, 2026.
5. Accessing Our Site
Our Site is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that Our Site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of Our Site for business and operational reasons.
6. Intellectual Property Rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in Our Site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from Our Site for your personal use. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
7. No Text or Data Mining, or Web Scraping
You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to Our Site or any services provided via, or in relation to, Our Site. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of): Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same. Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations. The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790). This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.
8. Do Not Rely on Information on This Site
The content on Our Site is provided for general information only. It should not be relied on for business, financial, legal, or tax decisions. You should obtain input from an appropriately licensed professional before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on Our Site. We (Taxceo (Cleaven Attard), and/or any of its partners, lawyers or employees) accept no responsibility and make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on Our Site is accurate, complete or up to date.
9. We Are Not Responsible for Websites We Link To
Where Our Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
10. Our Responsibility for Loss or Damage Suffered by You
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any services to you, which will be set out in our separate terms and conditions of business.
We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to Our Site or any content on it. We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with: use of, or inability to use, Our Site; or use of or reliance on any content displayed on Our Site. In particular, we will not be liable for: loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
11. Viruses
We do not guarantee that Our Site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology and platform to access Our Site and should use your own virus protection software. You must not misuse Our Site by knowingly introducing malicious material. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to Our Site. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and will co-operate with those authorities.
12. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms of Use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by the Laws of Malta. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Malta.
Regulatory Disclaimer
Taxceo is the trading name under which Cleaven Attard operates as a self-employed business professional in Malta. Services provided under the Taxceo brand - company formation support, bookkeeping, tax compliance, payroll, and software integration support - are delivered personally by Cleaven or through trusted licensed partners where legally required.
The information contained on this website is for general information and background purposes only. It is not a substitute for licensed legal, tax, or professional input and should not be relied upon as such. While we make every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information provided, we cannot guarantee that it is complete, up-to-date, or suitable for your specific needs.
You should seek independent, licensed professional support before making any business, financial, or legal decisions. Taxceo and Cleaven Attard disclaim all liability for any loss or damage arising from reliance on the information on this website.
Important note
The incorporation of companies in Malta, as well as the provision of a registered office for Maltese companies and some other services, requires a license in Malta and is subject to the supervision of the Maltese Financial Services Authority (MFSA). Taxceo \ Cleaven Attard are not licensed as Corporate Service Providers (CSPs) in Malta and do not provide any services requiring a license. We cooperate with licensed CSPs and lawyers in Malta who provide the corresponding services for our clients. When we refer to "we" on this website in the context of licensed services, this includes the aforementioned colleagues.