Ep.62 Baiba Šmite-Roķe - sapnis par VID nākotni

Описание: Ep.62 Baiba Šmite-Roķe, LAT - dream about the SRS

✨The Director General dreamed of becoming a flight attendant, waiter or philosopher in her childhood. We talked about upcoming improvements, the dream of a small and efficient SRS, books, things that we can already be proud of.

🔥Among other things, in the podcast we discussed:

👉books and Umberto Eco;

🔥what we can be proud of in Latvia and the SRS;

👉The SRS is just an intermediary that takes our money to the soldier, teacher or police officer;

👉civil servants should also have the initiative to amend the law if there is a systemic problem;

👉In 2023, the SRS's costs for collecting taxes are EUR 1.08 to collect EUR 100, but in 2024. statistics show already EUR 0.93 (in Lithuania - 0.43-0.48, but they do not have customs and police, which we have about 1300 people working for + functions not typical of the SRS - AML, supervision of accountants);

👉the book The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph E Stiglitz and why pay taxes if tax money is squandered and there are so many free riders who enjoy all the same benefits as those who pay taxes?

👉every smoker who smokes a cigarette immediately pays about 10 cents to the state, or about EUR 200 million per year.

👉The SRS is developing good cooperation with the CSB and the PMLP; as a result, the SRS sees that about 50k people of working age have an annual income of less than EUR 1k!

👉probably, the SRS will find a way for the entire society to avoid the general declaration system, if the SRS succeeds in its attempts to address narrower circles of people who see discrepancies; it is ok in such cases to simply briefly explain these discrepancies to the EDS;

👉the SRS is working hard to collect at least part of the EUR 2 billion (according to A. Saua's research) from the shadow economy, in order to equalize competition and thus make life easier for those who pay;

👉around 10k people have not declared capital gains from the sale of real estate;

👉around 3600 have registered with the health inspectorate as beauty service providers, but are neither employees nor economic operators;

👉the SRS could address around 200+ construction companies that are in the B rating only because of their remuneration;

👉whether and how does it make sense to report non-payers or if money is being squeezed out of the business;

👉why it is worth calling the SRS employee service, not mobile phones;

👉about a list of ideas for reducing the administrative burden; for example,

👉automatic registration of economic operators;

👉this year the average VAT refund rate improved from 12 days to 5-6 and faster for A rating;

👉the annual PIT declaration is pre-filled so that in most cases the PIT declaration can be submitted in a couple of minutes;

👉by the time of submitting the PIT declaration for next year, there will be a new application for scanning eligible expenses;

👉for entrepreneurs working with the state, electronic online invoices for local transactions will be available from 1.1.25, and for B2B - from 1.1.26 (e-address, PEPPOL, or via EDS);

👉how the SRS plans to use artificial intelligence;

👉what the SRS can be proud of in the field of digitalization on an EU scale and what the Estonian SRS wants to copy from us;

👉on settlements in disputes - there will be none, but there could be advisory institutions on tax issues;

👉a vision of the role of tax consultants.

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