RIGA, Sept 23 (LETA) - At the moment, private individual Jevgenijs Jakovlevs is the largest tax debtor among legal entities and private individuals with tax debts in excess of LVL 300,000: Jakovlevs' total debt is LVL 13.55 million, according to the Revenue Service's website.
According to data available from "Firmas.lv", Jakovlevs is the owner of housing management company "Namu parvalde "Maskavas"", registered in 2006, he is also a member of the company's board. Before that, Jakovlevs was the owner of several other companies. |
The 11th Saeima elections have concluded with five parties to be working at the Saeima during next 3 years. The Harmony Center has won 31 mandates in the 11th Saeima elections, Zatlers' Reform Party - 22 mandates, Unity - 20 mandates, All for Latvia-For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK - 14 mandates, the Union of Greens and Farmers - 13 mandates.
Discussions among winning parties are taking place in regard to a possible coalition. The Saeima elections took place on September 17, 2011. The activity of voters has been the lowest ever - only 58,77%. |
RIGA, Aug 21 (LETA) - Special events are being held today marking the 20th anniversary of the de facto restoration of the independence of Latvia.
Celebration began with a 10 a.m. ecumenical service at Riga's Dome Church and a ceremonial laying of flowers at the Freedom Monument. At 3 p.m., local musicians will perform Latvian classical music at a ceremonial concert in the Latvian National Theatre. It will be broadcast recorded by LTV1 at 6.40 p.m., but a live feed can be heard on LR3. Members of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia and members of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union who supported restoration of Latvia’s independence in 1991 have been invited to attend. |
Valdis Zatlers, The President of Latvia releases the Parliament of Latvia as of now - May 28!
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Danish Film Days 2011 takes place from 15th-18th April in cinema K Suns.
This year the Danish Cultural institute offers four dramas about different lives and challenges people face in order to find peace and happiness. These stories are not about ordinary West-European life, quite the opposite. They reveal people who - at least sometimes - long after a calm life with children, husband and regular job. In these movies we meet young girls-drug addicts, secret love between two men from radical political group, refugees from Afghanistan who looks for help from successful Danish journalist that has been hostage herself and a total life control lost actress who is fighting for getting back her children and her life. |
RIGA, April 4 (NOZARE.LV) - Latvia's banks have begun to write off loans in earnest, for instance, Latvian Mortgage and Land bank has written off loans worth LVL 57 million, the newspaper "Dienas Bizness" reports today.
This amount includes LVL 14 million that the bank last year handed over to its subsidiary "Hipoteku bankas nekustama ipasuma agentura" (Mortgage Bank's Real Estate Agency), which deals with debt recovery and sale of foreclosed properties, explains the bank's head Rolands Panko. |
RIGA, March 25 (NOZARE.LV) - Latvian banking sector was profitable in February for a second month in a row, and the sector's total profit for the first two months was LVL 18.9 million, as Financial and Capital Market Commission representative Anna Dravniece told the business portal "Nozare.lv".
Last February, Latvian banking sector's total losses stood at LVL 59.2 million. This year, 15 Latvian banks and four foreign banks' branches, whose total share of the banking sector's assets is 81.1 percent, posted LVL 28.8 million in profit altogether. |
RIGA, March 21 (NOZARE.LV) - Taxes in Latvia could be reduced in 2013, Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (Unity) says in an interview with the newspaper "Biznes&Baltija".
Dombrovskis points out that in 2012 Latvia must meet Maastricht criteria, which envisage that budget deficit must not exceed three percent of gross domestic product, therefore no tax reductions are planned. "2012 budget will be the last one to be consolidated. Stimulating measures will be carried out already in 2013," said Dombrovskis. |
RIGA, March 13 (LETA) - The planned consolidation of the 2011 state budget is not a goal in and of itself, but Latvia must keep in mind its resolution to meet the Maastricht criteria next year so the country could introduce the euro, as Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (Unity) said at a meeting of the political association Unity yesterday that was held to establish the association's Riga branch.
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RIGA, March 1 (LETA) - Today, a nationwide census drive will begin throughout Latvia.
This is the first nationwide census carried out in the country since it joined the European Union. The census will go on until May 31, during which information will be gathered on residents and their homes. At 11 a.m., a press conference will be held at the "Avalon Hotel", during which Economy Minister Artis Kampars (Unity) and the Central Statistical Bureau's head Aija Zigure will inform about the census and its impact on the development of Latvia's economy. It is planned that the results of the census will be summarized in 2012 and published in 2013. |
