Month: June 2019

Costa Rica Mandatory Corporate Registration September 1, 2019

The Costa Rica mandatory corporate registration requirement has been delayed until September 1, 2019.  At that time registration of all corporations in Costa Rica will start with companies corporate number ending in the number 0 and 1 after that each month …

COSTA RICA CAPITAL GAINS TAX WITH THE NEW TAX REFORM

  Many properties in Guanacaste and Puntarenas have kept a very low registered value! This creates a huge tax exposure with the new Capital Gains Tax, especially if an owner holds several properties! Starting July 1st, 2019, a …

New Tax Laws Coming into Effect July 1, 2019

  Great article courtesy Carlos Angulo Unique Law and Business www.uniquelb.com With less than a month until Law 9635  (Law for Strengthening Public Finances) comes into effect, we have received a lot of questions and concerns regarding the implementation of …

Living la pura vida in Costa Rica

from Canadian Geographic by MARINA JIMENEZ  Costpurwith photography by CHRISTIAN FLEURY Pura vida, or “pure life,” is taking pleasure in the simple things, and there’s no better place to do so than on an adventure cruise around two of Central America’s …

Save the Monkeys! Salve Monos!

We felt it was important to pass on some information given to us by Karol Allard of Salve Monos in Playa Hermosa (Save the Monkeys) to everyone that might help save some monkey habitat and make it safer …

Financing Property in Costa Rica for Citizens of the USA

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Triangular flight will connect Vancouver, San José and Liberia

As of December 18th, a new route to three points will connect Vancouver, a Canadian city, with San José and Liberia on national soil. The airline Air Transat will operate this triangular route twice a week: on Wednesdays …

Six Senses Papagayo Resort to Open 2021 in Costa Rica

Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas brings its sustainable and ultra-luxury footprint to Central America as it teams up with The Canyon Group to announce the development of Six Senses Papagayo. The resort, which is expected to open in …