TLDR Piia Schults, a 30-year veteran adviser at Estonia’s parliament, was fired after a drafting error in the Gambling Tax Act The mistake, passed in December, accidentally removed online casino taxation for 2026 Estonia now faces a €4 million revenue gap because of the error Schults plans to sue, calling her dismissal unjust and saying false claims led to her firing Riigikogu Chancellery Director Antero Habicht called the dismissal “unavoidable and necessary”
A longtime parliamentary adviser in Estonia is preparing to take legal action after being fired over a mistake in the country’s Gambling Tax Act.
Piia Schults served the Riigikogu Chancellery for more than three decades. Her career came to an abrupt end after a drafting error she was responsible for made it through the legislative process.
The mistake was included in a version of the Gambling Tax Act that was passed in December. It accidentally removed online casino taxation for the year 2026.
That error left Estonia facing a €4 million hole in its expected revenue. The government now has to deal with the financial fallout from the oversight.
Schults has not denied that the mistake happened. She told Estonian public broadcaster ERR that it was “indeed terrible” and that she was “very shaken by it.”
However, she stressed that this was the first error of its kind in her entire career. She described her work not as a career but as a “mission.”
Schults Says False Claims Prompted Her To Speak Out
Schults believes her dismissal was driven in part by her decision to speak to the press. She said reputational damage was cited as the main reason for letting her go.
She told ERR she had not wanted to go public at first. But she felt she had no choice after statements made