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LV On exemptions from paying road tolls
On July 1, 2014, the Road Use Toll Law (hereinafter – the Law) came into force, which stipulates that the road use toll is paid for the Annex 1 the use of designated sections of the main national roads, except for crossing them, including at roundabouts, by freight vehicles and their combinations, the gross weight of which exceeds 3,500 kilograms and which are intended or used for the carriage of goods by road (hereinafter referred to as a vehicle).
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Exemptions from paying road tolls:
1) According to Section 6, Clause 6 of the Law, it is stipulated that the road use fee is not paid for vehicles that, in accordance with regulatory enactments, are exempt from the requirement to install working and rest time recording devices (information on exemptions from the requirement to install working and rest time recording devices is available here: http://www.atd.lv/lat/tahografi/?doc=554 );
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2) Even if the vehicle is not exempt from the requirement to install a recording device for working and rest time, in accordance with Section 6, Paragraph 7 of the Law, an additional exemption is provided that the road use fee is not paid for vehicles with which a natural or legal person who is included in the Rural Support Service (hereinafter – the RAD) payment recipient database or registered with the state agency “Agricultural Data Centre” as the owner or keeper of animals carries out self-transportation.
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You can check the legal entities that are recipients of RSS payments in the publicly available database of payment recipients on the RSS website here: https://eps.lad.gov.lv/payment_recipients/index.
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If a legal entity is in the aforementioned database, then it is entitled to receive an exemption for vehicles used for self-transportation. Information about natural persons is not provided in the public database of the RSS, therefore the information in the databases of payment recipients of the RSS (both legal entities and natural persons) will be transferred to the Road Traffic Safety Directorate (hereinafter – CSDD), and the State Police will be able to verify whether the person is entitled to an exemption from the road use fee for the vehicle or not.
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Please note that the exemption in accordance with Section 6, Paragraph 7 of the Law is applied only in cases where the relevant vehicle is used for own transport in a specific case (provable by the relevant freight transport documents). For vehicles used for commercial transport, the road use fee must be paid. However, even in cases where the relevant vehicle, for which a commercial transport license has been issued, is used for own transport, then the road use fee may not be paid for the own transport carried out on a specific day, provided that this can be proven to the State Police by the relevant freight accompanying documents.
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In accordance with Section 8, Part One of the Law, the State Police shall control the payment of the road toll by controlling vehicles on the road. Taking into account that the State Police may also encounter problems with obtaining information from the public database of the Latvian State Highway Service or the Latvian Highway Service, we invite you to provide a self-transportation license and a printout prepared by you from the Latvian State Highway Service database in the vehicle. If necessary, we also invite you to provide cargo transport documents in the vehicle to confirm that self-transportation is being carried out.
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For reference – According to Section 1, Clause 27 of the Road Transport Law, own-account transport is transport carried out free of charge with vehicles owned or leased by a merchant, farmer or fisherman's farm, agricultural service cooperative, state or local government institution, association or foundation (hereinafter referred to as the own-account transport operator), which are driven by the own-account transport operator himself or his employee, in order to transport persons or cargo that is his property or that he has bought, sold, leased, rented, acquired, manufactured, processed or repaired for the needs of the own-account transport operator. Own-account transport is only an additional activity of the own-account transport operator.