Principles of Maltese VAT law

Abstract

Readers often consider forewords more important than the actual content of books, but I believe they should not, or at least not in the case of this handbook. The publication of a legal handbook as such is always an important event, insofar as it marks the scientific and systematic autonomy of its content, which it carves out from the remaining legal domains. This is certainly true for a book that is the first of its kind ever published in Malta and the second important contribution (after Principles of Maltese Tax Law) that its editor, Robert Attard, has made in order to steer Maltese taxation towards its scientific dignity within legal sciences and achieve the standards that it has in other European countries. [excerpt from the Foreword by Prof. Dr. Pasquale Pistone]