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He said that the negotiations process has been concluded successfully and an agreement has been reached that the Revenue Service will receive all the necessary information, and ss.lv will not leave Latvia.

Janis Lagzdins, the leading partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal (PwC Legal) who is the mediator in the dispute, told LETA that the mediation process is going on. "There have been constructive talks, but we will not comment on the process before it is closed completely," he said.

As reported, the State Revenue Service decided to halt operations of ss.lv, Latvia's largest classified advertisements website, as the portal refused to inform the revenue service about automobile dealers who had failed to register with the tax authority. The State Revenue Service earlier found that the ss.lv website was being used for illegal business operations by persons buying and selling automobiles who had not registered with the revenue service.

The State Revenue Service’s head Ilze Cirule said in an interview with Latvian Television that used car dealers might have avoided paying up to EUR million in taxes by selling vehicles through ss.lv.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) audit firm together with PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal (PwC Legal) have been chosen to mediate a dispute between Latvia’s leading classified ads website ss.lv and the State Revenue Service.