An interview with Grant Thornton Managing Partner Raitis Logins on the firm's ambitions, growth and future plans.
Raitis Logins has been appointed Managing Partner of Grant Thornton Baltic in Latvia.
Grant Thornton partner and certified auditor Raivis Irbītis has been re-elected to the Board of the Latvian Association of Certified Auditors (LACA) for the next three-year term, continuing his active contribution to the development of the profession and the strengthening of professional standards.
In the beginning of the year, several tax changes were introduced in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Changes in taxation, effective as of 1 January, 2022
Thin-capitalization rules are Abolished in 2021 and 2022
Key changes in tax legislation in the Baltics in 2021
On 16 July 2020, the European Union Court of Justice (CJEU) passed judgment C-311/18 (Schrems II), invalidating the US-EU certificate programme Privacy Shield, which ensures data transmission security.
Cookies can't read data off your hard drive or cookie files created by other sites; they are one of the technologies tracking people’s behaviour on the web.
In addition to the pandemic the 2020 is memorable as the year or record growth in cybercrime. According to the FBI the USA companies have reported a 400% growth in cyber-attacks and 68% more companies reported of fraud.
In January WhatsApp announced that it is changing its data policies so that the users only options are either to agree to their data policy and make data about them available to Facebook, the owner of WhatsApp, and any of its chosen third parties or not use the service.
Corporate Income Tax Report on income earned by a non-resident and tax paid in the Republic of Latvia
Changes in taxation, effective as of 1 January 2021
Government support for busineses affected by COVID-19
Grant Thornton 2020 European Real Property Transfer Taxes Guide
Key changes in tax legislation in the Baltics in 2020
