Why can a company with few staff pay so much?

The total includes the VAT and excise duty a company pays over on the goods it sells. For fuel, alcohol and tobacco traders these make up most of the total, so they can rank high with few employees. The “Labour taxes” column shows how much of the total is income tax and social contributions.

Why can a company’s total be negative?

VID publishes the total net of refunds. If a company got back more VAT in the year than it paid, an exporter for instance, the total is negative.

Does the list include every company?

It includes the merchants for which VID publishes taxes paid. Institutions, associations and farms are not in it. If a company is in a VAT group, VID publishes the group’s VAT separately, so it may not be in the company’s own total.

How often is the data updated?

Fakts loads the VID and Register of Enterprises data every night. A new year appears once VID publishes it.

Largest taxpayers

Largest taxpayers in Latvia in 2024

The selection “NACE 24 Manufacture of basic metals” has 41 companies in 2024, which together paid €4.2 million in taxes administered by VID. The largest payer is SIA "BIC" with €1.2 million (updated 24/09/2026).

Largest taxpayers in the selection

Taxes administered by VID, net of refunds. The change compares the same company's total a year earlier.

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Largest taxpayers in the selection
No.	Company	Industry	Municipality	Taxes paid, € million	Labour taxes, € million	Staff	Change
1	SIA "BIC"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	1.2	0.9	87	−1.4%
2	SIA "IZOTERMS"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Ropaži Municipality	1.1	0.8	141	−19.2%
3	SIA "TENAX PANEL"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Dobele Municipality	1.0	1.0	73	+195.8%
4	AS "Krāsaino Metālu Manufaktūra"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.8	1.2	92	+12.8%
5	SIA "Lindab"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.4	0.2	9	−12.1%
6	SIA "West Baltic Group"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Liepāja	0.3	0.1	5	+2,689.0%
7	AS KVV Liepājas metalurgs	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Liepāja	0.3	0.3	23	+48.2%
8	SIA "AKVILON"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.2	0.1	20	−6.2%
9	SIA "FONEKSS METĀLS"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.2	0.3	22	+242.2%
10	SIA "Valvix"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.1	0.0	7	+11.7%
11	"eVan Group" SIA	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Liepāja	0.1	0.6	54	–
12	LLP SIA	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Ādaži Municipality	0.1	0.0	6	−13.3%
13	SIA "2AM"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.0	0.0	5	+9.5%
14	SIA "Die Casting"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.0	0.0	2	−3.9%
15	SIA E&D Metal	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Krāslava Municipality	0.0	0.0	5	−0.8%
16	SIA "IJV"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.0	0.1	11	–
17	SIA "BIC group"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.0	0.0	4	−20.2%
18	SIA "AIS Tech"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Jelgava	0.0	0.0	2	+4.1%
19	SIA "STEELPIPE BALTIC"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Jelgava	0.0	0.0	0	+379.6%
20	SIA "EK Automotive Solutions"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Kuldīga Municipality	0.0	0.0	0	+137.8%
21	SIA "DZL darbnīca"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	South Kurzeme Municipality	0.0	0.0	2	+24.9%
22	AS "A Holding"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.0	0.0	0	–
23	SIA "ARt.TIN"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.0	0.0	1	+75.3%
24	LIEPĀJAS STEELWORKS SIA	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Liepāja	0.0	0.0	3	+90.4%
25	SIA "KL Industries"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.0	0.0	0	−66.7%
26	DR Metal SIA	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Tukums Municipality	0.0	0.0	0	–
27	SIA Sherlock Metal Group	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Jūrmala	0.0	0.0	0	+2,300.0%
28	SIA "Baltic Pipe"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Jelgava	0.0	0.0	0	+2.6%
29	SIA WindForge	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Liepāja	0.0	0.0	1	+37.5%
30	IK "Ed&Met"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Daugavpils	0.0	0.0	0	−50.0%
31	SIA "Nemezida"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.0	0.0	0	0.0%
32	SIA "FRANKOPOLE"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Ludza Municipality	0.0	0.0	0	0.0%
33	"Metalprofi" IK	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Olaine Municipality	0.0	0.0	0	–
34	SIA "TIN"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	0.0	0.0	0	–
35	Ledal trading SIA	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Ropaži Municipality	0.0	0.0	1	−100.0%
36	SIA "SILVER TRAM"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Ventspils	0.0	0.0	0	–
37	SIA HK Unlimited	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Sigulda Municipality	0.0	0.0	0	–
38	SIA "Skārdmeistars"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Saldus Municipality	0.0	0.0	3	–
39	SIA "Liepāja Steel"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	−0.1	0.0	2	–
40	SIA EcoTech Titanium	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	−0.3	0.5	53	–
41	SIA "METALEKSPO"	24 Manufacture of basic metals	Riga	−1.2	0.6	46	–

How the figures are compiled

The source is the State Revenue Service (VID) open dataset of taxes administered by VID paid by merchants in the last three tax years, published on data.gov.lv under CC0. VID republishes it in place with only the latest years, so Fakts keeps every year once it appears and restored the older years from copies saved by the Internet Archive.

The amount is the total of taxes administered by VID that a merchant paid in the tax year, in thousands of euro. It includes, for example, VAT, excise duty, corporate income tax, personal income tax and state social insurance contributions. VID publishes it net of refunds, so a merchant that got back more than it paid shows a negative total.

Labour taxes are personal income tax and state social insurance contributions, which VID states separately. Staff is VID’s average number of employees in the year. The change compares the same merchant’s total with the year before.

The industry is the main NACE code VID holds for that year. The municipality and the name come from the company’s current entry in the Register of Enterprises.

The data covers merchants: limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, individual merchants, partnerships and branches of foreign merchants. State and municipal institutions, associations and farms are not included.

Sources

Taxes administered by VID paid by merchants in the last three tax years, State Revenue Service of Latvia (VID)
Register of Enterprises open data, Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia

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

Questions

Which taxes are included in the total?: Every tax administered by VID that the merchant paid in the year, for example VAT, excise duty, corporate income tax, personal income tax and social contributions. VID publishes the total net of refunds.
Why can a company with few staff pay so much?: The total includes the VAT and excise duty a company pays over on the goods it sells. For fuel, alcohol and tobacco traders these make up most of the total, so they can rank high with few employees. The “Labour taxes” column shows how much of the total is income tax and social contributions.
Why can a company’s total be negative?: VID publishes the total net of refunds. If a company got back more VAT in the year than it paid, an exporter for instance, the total is negative.
Does the list include every company?: It includes the merchants for which VID publishes taxes paid. Institutions, associations and farms are not in it. If a company is in a VAT group, VID publishes the group’s VAT separately, so it may not be in the company’s own total.
How often is the data updated?: Fakts loads the VID and Register of Enterprises data every night. A new year appears once VID publishes it.

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