Lawyers, Laws & Taxes
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Costa Rica Real Estate Sales – Capital Gains Taxes
It is important to point out that this person has an habitual and public commercial activity such is house renting, for which he should pay ...
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Smart Canadians Buying Costa Rica Real Estate With Their RRSP
Much has been written about the use by our American cousins of their IRA funds to purchase foreign real estate investments in Costa Rica ...
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Your Costa Rica Corporation – The legal books you must have.
We do not blame them! Many attorneys interpret the law in such a way that they believe that inactive corporations do not require legal ...
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Costa Rica Gold Mine Controversy – An exercise in democracy.
Clearly, the current Costa Rican Administration, based on current open-pit mining policy, would have liked nothing better than to have the ...
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The Development of Costa Rican Law
Costa Rica acquired its independence from Spain in 1821 and ratified its first Constitution in 1825. Despite its independence from Spain ...
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Costa Rica Property Tax – New tools may help catch tax evaders
This tool is basically a sophisticated software platform which contains updated information on all the registered properties in Costa Rica, ...
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Only The Little People Pay Taxes.
Dog lovers may remember her because when she died she left her four legged friend a $12,000,000 trust fund, a move which Fortune magazine ...
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Secret Treasury Agency Wants to RETROACTIVELY Expand Offshore Reporting Requirements – Part II
In my last blog entry I described how a virtually unknown Treasury agency, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, has issued proposed ...
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Secret Treasury Agency Wants to RETROACTIVELY Expand Offshore Reporting Requirements – Part I
Last week, the U.S. Treasury finally clarified exactly what it expects U.S. taxpayers to disclose about their offshore holdings. And--no ...
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Congress Enacts Obama’s Anti-Offshore Jobs Bill
In a recent blog entry, I described how the Obama administration is working simultaneously on three fronts to crack down further on U.S. ...
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