taxes

President Gitanas Nausėda would support a tax hike in order to increase defence spending provided that taxation would be progressive, says his chief adviser Frederikas Jansonas. He reiterated that the head of state opposes a raise of the value added tax (VAT) as it would disproportionately affect th...

Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė says the value added tax (TAX) rate should not be raised in order to increase defence funding.

Leader of the party Democrats For Lithuania, Saulius Skvernelis, implies that affluent people should pay higher taxes and contribute more to the country’s defence this way.

On Wednesday, eight umbrella organisations uniting more than 1,000 Lithuanian NGOs and trade unions addressed governmental bodies urging politicians not to delay the tax reform and to implement wider systemic changes. The written address calls for adequate funding of public services that would help ...

The opposition Social Democrats expect the ruling parties to take their proposals on board in next stages of debating the tax reform legislation, the party leader says.

Members of the opposition groups in the Seimas are requesting an expert assessment of the legal regulation of the tax reform, ELTA was told by the chair of non-attached MPs.

As Lithuania's public debt is growing due to the coronavirus crisis, the country might need to raise some taxes in the futures. Their burden wouldn’t be as heavy on residents and the economy if the economic structure changed, Lithuanian Finance Minister Vilius Sapoka says.

The new taxes for major retailers and banks, proposed by the ruling parties in Lithuania, could be introduced in the middle of the next year at the earliest, Rima Baskiene, a deputy speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, says.

Vitas Vasiliauskas, board chairman of the central Bank of Lithuania, has called on lawmakers to turn to the European Central Bank for the latter to assess plans to introduce a banking asset tax in Lithuania.

The Lithuanian Cabinet on Wednesday backed in principle new taxes on bank assets and retail turnover, but proposed that the parliament hold consultations on what impact these taxes would have.

Reducing Lithuania's poverty level to the EU average requires paying all taxes to the state and investing in healthcare and in transport and communications infrastructure, especially in small towns, Deputy Social Security and Labor Minister Eitvydas Bingelis said on Friday.

Lithuania's President-elect Gitanas Nauseda says he does not back yet the idea to introduce taxes for polluting cars in the country as that would increase social exclusion.