Opposition reveals: four children = zero tax, five children = state pays your salary
While bean counters in Riga ponder taxes, in Liepāja with four kids you'd have opened your own business long ago.
The opposition party has once again demonstrated mathematical skills that surpass even the Liepāja Museum calculator, which has been tallying history lessons since 1560. This time politicians have come forward with a revolutionary idea: if you have four children, you don't need to pay taxes. If you have five — the state will owe you money.
Party representatives explain that anyone up to 24 years old who is still studying counts as a child. In Liepāja, such a definition is called 'eternal student syndrome,' well known to all housewives whose 26-year-old son still lives at home and is 'finding himself.'
Similar proposals for families with two and three children have already been rejected in Parliament, indicating that deputies are practicing a gradual growth strategy. Next year, most likely, there will be a proposal for five children, then six, until we finally reach a situation where only childless people pay taxes.
Liepāja City Council member Zinta Kārkliņa comments: 'Here with four children we would have long ago opened our own little business — one child sells marbles, another collects amber, the third leads tours through Liepāja Museum, and the fourth is already planning to become mayor. So taxes would be the least of our problems.'
The law is planned to take effect from 2027, giving families enough time to prepare and, if necessary, supplement their number of children to the required level.
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