Bank services clients overpays 6.5 million lats

This year, the Latvian government intends in the form of the recently introduced tax levies, duties of financial stability, to get into the state budget 6.5 million lats. Some commercial banks, which have to pay this fee already calculated the amount of funds required for payment of the fee this year, some have not yet completed calculations. But it is already clear that, in fact, the costs associated with this duty, shift the banks on customers. Latvia this year, followed by many other countries, began to apply the duty of financial stability, size of which is 0.036% per annum of the total liabilities of financial institutions at the end of the taxation period. Bank Swedbank have to pay about 750 000 lats, SEB banka - approximately LVL 500 000, Citadele - 200 000. In Nordea the amount of duty is not counted. "It is understood that any tax increase tariffs for banking services, essentially paying bank customers", - said in a conversation with a newspaper NeatkarD "gDЃ representative Nordea Dagnija knocking. Source: rus.DELFI.lv