LatviaValsts ieņēmumu dienests
Gambling tax reports count only with accepted EDS status
Lottery and gambling tax reports via EDS count as filed only with status "Pieņemts" or "Pieņemt precizējums" — confirm it before the 15-day filing and 23rd-day payment deadlines.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 25 September 2026
A lottery or gambling tax report filed through the Electronic Declaration System (EDS) counts as submitted only when its status reads "Pieņemts" or "Pieņemt precizējums"VID. A report showing any other status has not been filed, even if the organiser pressed send inside the deadline.
VID Organisers should open the document list in EDS after every monthly filing and confirm the accepted status; where it is missing, the report must go in again.
The filing route is now spelled out on the same practice: in EDS go to Dokumenti – Izveidot jaunu dokumentu – Pēc dokumentu grupas – Izložu un azartspēļu nodokļa dokumenti – and select the matching document. That path serves the two monthly forms — the report on calculated gambling tax (1. pielikums) and the report on calculated lottery tax (2. pielikums) under Cabinet Regulation No. 67 of 4 February 2020 (MK 04.02.2020. noteikumi Nr. 67 "Noteikumi par izložu un azartspēļu nodokļa pārskatu veidlapu paraugiem un to aizpildīšanas kārtību").
The underlying duties are unchanged. Lottery and gambling organisers file the monthly report on calculated lottery and gambling tax within 15 days after the end of the reporting monthVID, through the Valsts ieņēmumu dienests (VID) EDS. The tax for the reporting month is payable by the 23rd of the following month
VID into the single tax account; bingo tax is payable monthly against bingo organisation revenue.
The gambling-tax form (1. pielikums) carries the company name, legal address and registration code, the year and month, and per game type the identifying detail the form demands — telephone number for telephone games, betting venue for totalizators and betting, bingo venue, internet address for interactive games — plus machine or table counts, the administrative-territory code, the annual rate in euro or the percentage rate, organisation revenue, and the computed tax. The lottery-tax form (2. pielikums) carries the lottery type code (state-wide, interactive, local), the lottery name, the territory code for local lotteries, the taxable object, and the computed tax.
Licence holders with interactive operations file a second, quarterly layer: an interactive-gambling organiser, a totalizator or betting organiser accepting stakes by electronic communications, and an interactive-lottery organiser report the quarter's total stakes and total winnings paid, plus ticket sales and winnings for lotteries, with a bank statement on account transactions with players — the interactive-gambling notice under 1. pielikums and the interactive-lottery notice under 2. pielikums of Cabinet Regulation No. 337 of 13 June 2017 (MK 13.06.2017. noteikumi Nr. 337).
The revenue split behind the returns is fixed: lottery-tax revenue from state-wide lotteries, including instant lotteries, goes in full to the state basic budget, as does gambling-tax revenue from games organised via telecommunications; lottery-tax revenue from local lotteries goes in full to the municipality where the lottery was organised, while other gambling-tax revenue goes 5 per cent to that municipality and 95 per cent to the state basic budget, divided by VID within two working days after the 23rd.
The report, status-verification and payment duties rest on the likums "Par izložu un azartspēļu nodevu un nodokli" and MK 04.02.2020. noteikumi Nr. 67.
After filing the monthly lottery/gambling tax report in EDS, check that its status reads "Pieņemts" or "Pieņemt precizējums" and re-file it if it does not — file within 15 days after month-end and pay by the 23rd.