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Articles11 December 2025

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Satversmei neatbilst regulējums par zemes likumiskās lietošanas maksu un likumiskajā lietošanā esošās zemes kadastrālās vērtēšanas kārtību(The regulation of the statutory land use fee and the cadastral valuation of land in statutory use is incompatible with the Constitution, in Latvian)

An independent source on the Constitutional Court judgment of 10 December 2025 and its significance.

Speeches in court11 November 2025

Satversmes tiesa

Speech before the Constitutional Court in case No. 2024-21-0103, 11 November 2025

TV26 October 2025

RīgaTV24, "Nacionālo interešu klubs"

Baļķens: Bankām šie aktīvi nav interesanti(Baļķens: These assets are of no interest to banks, in Latvian)

A segment from a broadcast on divided property and compulsory land rent, in conversation with Gundars Ūdris.

Speeches in court15 October 2025

Satversmes tiesa

Speech before the Constitutional Court in case No. 2024-21-0103, 15 October 2025

TV17 May 2025

LASI.lv / 360TV Ziņas

Tūkstošiem īpašnieku izmisumā: Satversmes tiesā sāk skatīt strīdīgo likumu par zemes lietošanas maksu(Thousands of owners in despair: the Constitutional Court begins hearing the disputed law on the land use fee, in Latvian)

A 360TV Ziņas news report on the start of the hearing of case No. 2024-21-0103 before the Constitutional Court. The case affects land and building owners across Latvia.

Articles12 May 2025

IR

Kāpēc zemes īpašnieki Latvijā ir padarīti par barības ķēdes vājāko posmu?(Why have landowners in Latvia been made the weakest link in the food chain?, in Latvian)

An opinion piece written when the Constitutional Court declared the case complex: landowners are before the Constitutional Court for the fifth time, the 4 % rate was set arbitrarily, and many apartment owners do not pay.

Articles12 May 2025

LA.lv

Kāpēc zemes īpašnieki Latvijā ir padarīti par barības ķēdes vājāko posmu?(Why have landowners in Latvia been made the weakest link in the food chain?, in Latvian)

The same article on LA.lv.

YouTube

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Educational videos on the management of apartment buildings, functionally necessary land plots, cadastral values and land buy-out.

Speeches in court6 April 2023

Satversmes tiesa

Speech before the Constitutional Court in case No. 2022-02-01, 6 April 2023

Speeches in court4 April 2023

Satversmes tiesa

Speech before the Constitutional Court in case No. 2022-02-01, 4 April 2023

Articles30 January 2023

Delfi

Slēptā nacionalizācija(Hidden nationalisation, in Latvian)

On how the statutory land use fee is in most cases two to four euro a month, many do not pay it, and this amounts to a slow nationalisation of land.

Articles4 September 2018

Jurista Vārds, Nr. 36 (1042)

Judikatūra pievienotās vērtības nodokļa jautājumos zemes likumiskās nomas attiecībās(Case law on value added tax in statutory land lease relations, in Latvian)

A critical look at the Senate judgment of 27 June 2018 in case SKC-5/2018, which held that the 6 % statutory rent includes all of the landowner's taxes, VAT included.

Articles10 July 2018

Pietiek.com

MAN PIETIEK jeb par pašreizējo maksātnespējas procesa administratora situāciju(I HAVE HAD ENOUGH, or on the current situation of the insolvency administrator, in Latvian)

On the state of the insolvency administrator profession in 2018 from a practitioner's point of view.