What the Sunday papers say...

MaltaToday reveals top-secret notes from inside Castille of Richard Cachia Caruana, the man who ran the Prime Minister's office from the late 1980s to 2004. The paper leads with a survey showing the majority of Maltese citizens approved the budget while on the other side of the coin, an equal number are against Joseph Muscat's plan to sell Maltese citizenship through a donation of  €650,000. On the back page, the Sunday edition reads how Rakhat Aliyev, a Kazakh exile taking shelter in Malta, has had his Austrian passport repealed.

Sunday newspaper Illum describes the introduction of the new 7.5% income tax measure on part-time footballers, including the reaction of players' representatives and the threat of suspension by MFA President Norman Darmanin Demajo. In another story, Illum reports the exponential rise in animal abuse in Malta since 2009.

The Sunday Times leads with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat admitting how the case of Norman Vella was poorly handled and reporting how PN threatens to reveal the beneficiaries of the IIP programme.

The Malta Independent on Sunday says that less than half of citizenship revenue stemming from the IIP programme is to go into the National Development Fund.

Kullhadd leads with Finance Minister Edward Scicluna stating that it was his dream to deliver a Labour Budget, as he wanted to show his children what a Labour government could do.

It-Torca says Simon Busuttil and PN's reiterated threats of repealing the issued 'golden passports' is against the law while on the back page it reports an altercation between a father and son which ended with the son being ran over by his father.

The Nationalist party's newspaper Il-Mument leads with Simon Busuttil saying that a PN government will repeal the Individual Investor Programme passports while it carries a story claiming that the Chinese embassy in Pembroke will be larger than the USA embassy in Ta' Qali.