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Selling cirsma is not a capital gain — it is income from the use of property, taxed at 10 %. Cirsma and harvested roundwood are two different transactions with 25 % and 50 % expense allowances, so the effective burden is 7.5 % and 5 %. Five scenarios with numbers and links to the tax authority's own guidance.
On the Latvian private forest market, every second unprepared buyer falls into at least one pitfall: overpays, inherits someone else's obligations, loses access. Ten concrete categories of risk with instructions on where to find them before signing.
The familiar narrative of a roughly even state-versus-private split does not match the VMD data. Measured by forest compartments, private ownership outweighs the state by a factor of 2.17. Within the private sector, concentration is extreme: the top 1% of owners hold 44% of the area. We break down ownership across 276,011 cadastres.
The calculator shows €100,000 standing, the buyer offers €58,000, and both are right. The gap between a theoretical valuation and a real transaction price is five concrete discounts. We break down each one with real numbers from a VMD sample.
