Arnold Cassola, Independent candidate on the 10th and 11th districts announced that he was authorising the Commissioner to make available to journalists Cassola's tax returns going back 5, 10, 20, even 30 years, if requested.

In a press conference outside the Commissioner for Revenue's offices in Floriana today, Cassola said the past legislature has been characterised by a considerable number of politicians and PEPs who avoided or evaded taxes or had a dubious relationship with their duties as responsible citizens.

We all remember how Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri set up secret companies in Panama, he said.

We then had Labour MP Ian Castaldi Paris who amassed over one million euros in unexplained wealth, which had not been declared to the taxman. 

PN leader Bernard Grech, was asked to settle a hefty bill for unpaid taxes between 1990 and 1996, then again in 2012 for the years 1999-2011 and again he was asked to settle VAT assessments for 2014 to 2019.

PN MP David Thake was also outed for not having paid 270,000 euros due to the VAT office. He attributed this to cash flow problems, Cassola said.

Much more serious are the stories concerning Rosianne Cutajar and Robert Abela. The first one accepted payments from the businessman, and did not declare these earnings to the taxman.

The Prime Minister, instead, has "millions in unexplained wealth, and he persists in not revealing his tax returns", Cassola said. The situation in his case is seriously complicated by the fact that we now know he dealt in business with callous criminals, including Christian Borg and, maybe, even others.

Since Malta needs to have honest politicians who are open to public scrutiny, "already as a candidate I am authorising the Commissioner of Revenue to make accessible to journalists my tax returns, if requested.  I now expect Prime Minister Abela and other politicians to follow suit

"Unexplained wealth" can no longer be the hallmark of Maltese parliamentarians, he said.