Foreigners are attracted chiefly by Malta's tax system, which allows income tax on dividends to be offset against corporate tax, reducing the effective tax rate on dividends from 35% to 5%.

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Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained.

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