Resources
Two kinds of thing, kept deliberately apart. Reports are dated and republished: each edition is a point in time and keeps its URL forever. Guides are undated and revised in place: one URL per topic, carrying the date its facts were last checked rather than the date it was written.
- companies on the map
- 634
- reports published
- 19
- reference guides
- 38
- figures linked to a source
- 819
Reports
All 19 reports →Computed from the Register of Enterprises and the job boards Latvian companies use. Every one names its population, states its dump date, and publishes the numbers behind each chart.
Who Wins Latvian Public Contracts
Every procurement notice Latvia has published since e-forms began: how big a typical contract is, how few people bid for one, what size of firm wins, and the companies on this map that have won something.
One-off · 29.7% of lots draw a single bid · updated 27 September 2026
Who Sits on Latvian Company Boards
Board size, joint representation, how recently boards were appointed and how many boards one person sits on, across every active Latvian limited company, and why the register cannot show you a resignation.
One-off · 84.3% have a sole director · updated 27 September 2026
Share Capital in the Latvian Register
Whether founders really use the one-euro SIA, counted across every active company rather than guessed at, and why the question everyone asks next cannot be answered from this register at all.
One-off · 31.1% of active companies are below the EUR 2,800 minimum, and 16.1% of those on this map · updated 27 September 2026
Foreign Ownership in the Latvian Register
How many Latvian companies have a non-Latvian beneficial owner, where those owners are from, whether they live here, and how the mix has shifted since 2015.
Annual · 12.3% of active companies, and 17.5% of those on this map · updated 27 September 2026
Guides
All 38 guides →How companies actually get started and run in Latvia: the startup law, tax on retained profit, share options, registering as a non-resident, what a hire costs. Every number carries its source and the date it was checked, and each guide says at the top what it does not cover.
The Latvian Digital Nomad Visa, and Working Remotely From Riga
Latvia's long-stay visa for remote workers employed or self-employed in an OECD state. The income multiple and the figure the migration office actually applies, the one-year term and its single renewal, the six-month bar that follows, why it carries no right to work in Latvia, and where it fits against the startup visa.
Last verified 19 September 2026 · 9 min read
Licensing a Fintech in Latvia: Payment Institutions and E-Money
What it takes to be regulated as a payment or e-money firm in Latvia. The four initial capital figures and which services trigger each, who supervises you, how long a licence decision takes and how long the licence lasts, and the question of whether you need one at all.
Last verified 19 September 2026 · 8 min read
When a Latvian Company Cannot Pay: Insolvency, and the Duty to File
What actually happens when a SIA runs out of money. The statutory signs that start the board's duty to file, the deposit an application needs, what the administrator takes over, how long creditors have to claim, the restructuring route that is not insolvency, and where the founder's own exposure begins.
Last verified 19 September 2026 · 9 min read
Selling to the Latvian State: Public Procurement for a Small Company
How a startup sells to Latvian public buyers. The contract size below which no procedure is needed at all, the lighter route above it, where tenders and results are published, how to read the open data on who won and for how much, and the honest case for and against bidding.
Last verified 19 September 2026 · 9 min read
Calculators
All 14 calculators →The same figures as the guides, with a form around them. Nothing is typed into a calculator: every rate is read from the ledger of the guide that sources it, so the two cannot disagree and neither goes stale on its own.
Personal income tax
Net pay from a gross salary for one month, or what a whole year owes once the ceiling, the additional rate and deductible spending are counted.
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Corporate income tax
What a distribution costs a company, in either direction, and what Latvia withholds on a payment abroad. It is not a percentage of what you pay out.
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VAT
What a rate does to a price either way, and whether you must register at all. The threshold everyone quotes is one of three triggers, not the first.
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Social contributions
What a company owes when the law sets the base instead of the payslip: a board member paid nothing, or an employee under the quarterly minimum.
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Tools
Filing calendar →The guides state the intervals. This turns them into your dates, from the same ledger, and hands you a calendar file rather than a page to remember.
How to Read Any of It
The methodology page carries the frozen definitions every report computes from, the sources behind them, and the correction policy. It is the same file the pipeline reads, rendered.
How to Take It With You
Every figure here is a CSV, free for any use including commercial, with its source and dump date inside the file rather than on the page that linked it. The data page lists them, and says which parts of the register you can fetch yourself without asking us at all.