News / Katri-Helen Wojtkowiak
Responding to the challenges that businesses are facing during the COVID-19 outbreak, we are introducing a Sorainen podcast. In the podcast our lawyers and tax experts cover business-critical issues and share their advice on adapting to this unprecedented situation. Listen to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes. “After launching an international COVID-19 Task Force we […]
Updated on 21 April 2020 Additional conditions for declaring idle time On 8 April 2020 amendments to the Labour Code regulating idle time due to the state of emergency and quarantine came into effect. For this reason, in order to declare idle time additional conditions will apply from now on: due to the nature of […]
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To ensure availability of disinfectants needed to stabilise the state of emergency, to support people living in Latvia and help mitigate the consequences of Covid-19, the Olaine chemical factory BIOLARS has said it is ready to start manufacturing disinfectants in its production plants. Taking into account the increased demand for ‒and unreasonably high prices of […]
We represented an international chain of retail clothing stores in a trademark opposition matter in Latvia. We prepared an urgent opposition application against the registration of the opponent’s trademark and represented the client at a hearing of the Appellate Board of the Latvian Patent Office. The Appellate Board upheld the opposition by invalidating the opponent’s […]
To support businesses during the coronavirus outbreak Latvia has introduced new VAT measures to speed up the procedure for refunding overpaid VAT. According to the new VAT repayment procedure: The State Revenue Service (SRS) refunds overpaid VAT within 30 days of receiving the VAT return for the respective tax period. Before a refund, the SRS […]