SRS Discovers New Ways to Squeeze Money from Residents — Now Also Looking for Foreign Pennies

The State Revenue Service, this eternal emptier of Latvian pockets, has once again proven its creativity. Now they've invented a new warning system that gently reminds taxpayers: "Hey you, who drives to Estonia for cheaper fuel, haven't you accidentally earned something?"

The system works on a very simple principle — if you've declared something from abroad in previous years, then most likely there will be something this year too. That's as clever as saying that if it rained yesterday, today might be wet. The Liepāja Museum could create a separate exhibition about SRS logic — history that's truly interesting and simultaneously frightening.

"I think my pension from England is 50 pounds a month, but now I have to fill out the entire D2 appendix," complains local Karosta resident Ausma. "It takes more time than that pension is worth!"

The SRS explains that they don't provide specific information, but only "informatively remind." That's like saying: "We don't know if you have money, but if you had money, then we should know about it." Brilliant! While Riga thinks about how to complicate life, we Liepāja residents simply continue living honestly and declaring even those five euros we earned selling grandma's knitted mittens in Lithuania.