Facts & Info for Limited Liability Company in Latvia
General information
Company structure
- Only one shareholder (no nationality restriction)
- The sole shareholder may become the only required director to manage the SIA (no nationality restriction)
Taxation
- The normal corporate tax rate is 15%. However, a micro company only pays 9% as long as the total income does not exceed 100,000 Euro. The excess will be taxed at a 20% rate.
- The personal income tax rate is 24% for those foreigners wishing to reside in Latvia.
N.B.
U.S. taxpayers must disclose all world income to the IRS as do everyone subject to global income taxes must report all income to their tax agency.
Registered office
Required
Company name
- Letters: Only Latin and Latvian letters
- Company name is restricted to be identical or similar that of an existing company.
Incorporation
- Collection of necessary information for company registration
- Preparing foundation documents for company registration
- Signing of foundation documents, also at notary
- Opening temporary bank account, where to deposit share capital
- Payment of state fees for company formation and for publication official newspaper
- Foundation document submitting to the Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia
- Company registration in the Register of Enterprises of Latvia and receiving documents
Please provide us with the following documents and data:
Incorporation
- A notarized copy of valid passport (of each Shareholder, Director, Beneficial Owner, Authorized Signatory)
- A copy of proof of residential address (ex. utility bill of each Shareholder, Director, Beneficial Owner, Authorized Signatory that is not older than 3 months) in English
- Optional: A notarized copy of Bank reference (of each Shareholder, Director, Beneficial Owner, Authorized Signatory)
- Optional: CV (of each Director and Shareholder)
N.B.
- If Shareholders and/or directors are legal persons, then it is required to submit full set of apostilled company documents and certificate of Good Standing.
- If documents are not in English language or language, they must be accompanied by a notarized translation.