LETA, Ieva Leiniša

Plans are in place to draft a special law to temporarily limit excise tax on fuel. At the same time, a special algorithm for the so-called windfall profit tax is planned to ensure that "the sector does not generate additional profits due to global events,"  the minister said.

"We have well-founded suspicions that current pricing policies are not in the public interest, and therefore, such solutions are necessary. Moreover, if we implement an excise tax reduction, these solutions ar...