Industries

Education (NACE 85)

Latvia has 2,383 active companies whose main activity is in NACE division 85, “Education”, and 28.5% of them are VAT payers. In 2025 annual reports the median company turnover in the industry was €30,990, and the largest was King's College Latvia SIA (€9.9 million); in 2024 the industry’s companies paid €68.8 million in taxes administered by VID (updated 24/09/2026).

Active companies
2,383 No. 20 by number of companies
VAT payers
678 28.5%
Median turnover 2025
€30,990
Taxes paid 2024
€68.8 million 0.6% of the total across industries

Turnover in 2025 annual reports

A quarter of the companies with turnover took in less than the lower quartile, and a quarter more than the upper one.

Turnover in 2025 annual reports
Lower quartile€11,949
Median€30,990
Upper quartile€82,739
Total turnover€267.2 million
Annual reports filed1,896
Reports with turnover above zero1,568

Largest companies by turnover

Taxes paid by year

Taxes administered by VID paid by the industry's companies, by year.

2024: 68.8 € million

Taxes administered by VID paid by the industry's companies, by year
YearCompaniesTaxes paid, € millionStaff
20242,53268.89,144
20232,28958.78,885
20222,13349.38,529
20212,17542.18,763
20202,01437.78,949
20191,92737.38,804

The industry's largest taxpayers in 2024

VAT in this industry

Education services are exempt from VAT in certain cases.

Registering as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable supplies exceed €50,000 in a calendar year. A smaller business may register voluntarily.

This is general orientation, not tax advice. For a specific transaction, check the rate in the Value Added Tax Law or with your accountant.

Tax rates in Latvia

How the figures are compiled

The industry is the main NACE code VID holds for the company in the newest year of taxes paid. Merchants have one: limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, individual merchants, partnerships and branches of foreign merchants. Farms, associations and foundations are not in the industry counts.

The data mixes NACE Rev. 2.1 codes, used in statistics from 2025, with older NACE Rev. 2 codes. Division numbers mostly match between the two, so the industry is read from the first two digits of the code. Division 45 exists only in Rev. 2.

Turnover is net turnover from the company’s annual report for 2025. Where a company filed both its own report and a consolidated group report, its own is used, and reports filed in thousands of euro are converted to euro. The median and quartiles cover companies with turnover above zero.

The report year is the newest year with at least 90% of the usual number of reports filed, since reports are filed months after the year ends. Some late reports may therefore still be missing.

Taxes paid are VID’s published totals of taxes administered by VID, net of refunds, grouped by the NACE code the company had in each year.

Sources

Fakts compiles these figures from the datasets above, published on data.gov.lv under the CC0 licence. They are not official statistics.

Questions

How many companies work in “Education”?
Latvia has 2,383 active companies whose main NACE code in VID’s data is in division 85. 678 of them are VAT payers.
What is a typical turnover in “Education”?
In 2025 annual reports the median turnover was €30,990: half of the industry’s companies with turnover took in more, half less.
How is a company’s industry determined?
By the main NACE code the company gave VID, as published in VID’s data on taxes paid. The newest year’s code is used.
Why are farms and associations missing from the industries?
VID publishes a NACE code only for merchants. Farms, associations and foundations have none in this data, so they are not in the industry counts.

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