How is the fight with envelope wages and the shadow economy in general going in Latvia? / LR1 / / Latvian Radio

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The scandal surrounding the possible payment of envelope salaries in the office of the “Vienotība” party makes us wonder how the fight with envelope salaries and the shadow economy in general is going in Latvia? Estimates show that the amount potentially collected from the shadow economy would be around a billion, but more than 46 percent of the shadow economy is attributed to envelope wages. How effective are the planned measures to combat the shadow economy? At the crossroads discussed by the Director General of the State Revenue Service Baiba Šmite-Roķeprofessor of the Riga University of Economics, director of the Sustainable Business Center, chairman of the Vidzeme University Council Arnis SaukaPresident of the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Aigars Rostovskis and the Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Finance in matters of curbing the shadow economy Olga Bogdanova.