Companies and countries have needed to adapt their activities to the consequences of the Russian war in Ukraine. The analysis in this article shows that both the Russian war in Ukraine and the subsequent trade restrictions have become a powerful trigger, significantly increasing the level of...

Companies and countries have needed to adapt their activities to the consequences of the Russian war in Ukraine. The analysis in this article shows that both the Russian war in Ukraine and the subsequent trade restrictions have become a powerful trigger, significantly increasing the level of...

At the initial stage of the economic slowdown, companies should have clear understanding of the specifics of the emerging crisis in order to ensure that they quicker adapt to an absolutely new situation and suffer smaller losses, securing themselves an opportunity to restore their performance...

Starting from 1 January 2018, Latvia introduced changes in the corporate income tax (CIT) system. In accordance with the new law, companies should pay CIT only from that part of the profit that is distributed as dividends, that is, essentially, reinvested profits were exempted from CIT. The same...

Only a small percentage of startups attract capital from venture capital investors. To determine the factors which owners of startups consider the most important for attracting seed venture investments, the founders of 40 startups in Latvia and Russia were questioned. The researchers compared...

The paper deals with the issues of investment of hybrid and public venture capital funds. The results show that hybrid and public venture capital funds in Latvia in most cases are the first investors. Only a smaller part of these investments are investments of the early stages of funding. The...

The primary goal of the article is to study the effect of the single tax introduction for the micro-enterprises in Latvia. The major aspects affected by the new regime introduction studied in the present article were net registration of micro-enterprises, the employment level in the country, the...

The study considers feasibility of introduction of corporate income tax deferral until distribution of enterprise profits aimed to accelerate economic growth, increase budget revenues and raise welfare of the population of Latvia. The study analyses the effect of introduction of corporate income...

In this paper, we consider the changes that occurred in the service exports of thirty-eight European countries in the period of 2005–2016. We have found that the existing world trend related to the growth of service exports is also present in Europe. However, the trend of the service exports'...

One of the tools for financing young innovative companies is state-subsidized venture capital funds (VCF). The paper explores the issues of demand for investment and the structure of Latvian state-subsidized VCF investments. We found that of the total number of applications for investment...