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Thank you rosiemaji! Just the info I was looking for, and this was confirmed by our CR vet today as well. My biggest complaint regarding online info is the lack of date attached to the information. I mentioned this to the vet at APHIS (the folks who stamp the health certificate in the US) and I noticed that the most recent info they have at the USDA is well documented with dates. Maybe it does pay to complain! Thanks again!
Thank you to all who replied. Our trip went well and now we are preparing for the return flight. Here is the question: We need a Certificate of Good Health issued by our vet in Costa Rica. We also need “stamps” issued by the Costa Rican government. Are these 2 steps completed simultaneously by our vet in CR? My concern is the “timeline” because the info on the US Embassy site says we should start the process about 30 days from departure and American Airlines wants the Health Certificate to be issued within 10 days of the flight. Any thoughts on how this all comes together?
With regards to moving with your pets, your first step would be to find an airline that transports
animals. I know that American, Delta and possibly United do.There will be requirements. Next, go to the US Department of Agriculture website (usda.gov) to get the most recent information about traveling with pets in general and to Costa Rica in particular. They will also have info about traveling to CR with animals other that dogs and cats. The US Embassy in San Jose website also has information, but I was told by the vet at the USDA that their info was more up to date. It is a process we just went through a few months ago with our dog. Now we are completing it in reverse!
If you are interested in living near the beach, you may consider the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. Most people here, including expats get by without a/c, which appears to be a big expense on the Pacific side.
And oh yeah, almost forgot! You do need to teach your dogs to respond to the command “Leave it”, because yes there are nasty things they can get into!We’ve been filing this form for several years now. We were told that it cannot be filed electronically, so we have always mailed it with our other forms. The IRS has never had questions about our filing.
Don’t know about the blueberries, but wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your column in amcostarica.com. Very informative!
[quote=”charmey”]I just went on line to the Nacional Registro website to check how much is due for the 2015 Corporation Tax. We have always been an inactive company but now it shows as active with a tax due of 201,000.00 colones. Has anyone else had this happen to them again? I am wondering if maybe it is too early in the year for the website to be accurate.:( When is the payment due? Don’t mind paying the tax, but not for an active corporation when it is not.[/quote]
charmey, I just checked again today, and we have been changed back to an inactive corporation for 2015, and the tax owed has also been adjusted. We did nothing, so it looks like whatever “bug’ was in the system has been rectified. I hope yours has been as well. Let me know, I’m curious. I will pay ours in February at BCR when we are in Cahuita.We checked yesterday, and sure enough, we are once again being charged with the active corporation tax. Last year, our attorney filed papers to change our corporation from active back to inactive. Within a few weeks, we checked on line, and the correction had been made, we paid the inactive fee, end of story. Apparently not. We’ll be in CR in February and will see the attorney again, but perhaps there will be a resolution before then, as this was supposedly a computer error last year.
Hmmm.
The Pan American Highway south of Cartago is WAY scarier than Routa 32 over the mountains to the Caribbean side.
I’ve been visiting Cahuita for extended periods of time for the past 8 years and have never been approached about purchasing ‘substances’:cry:.
Yes, it rains. Sometimes a lot. That’s why there is jungle there full of really cool stuff. Spiders, frogs, sloths, army ants,toucans, you name it. All of which I can observe from the hammock on my porch.
Only one decent restaurant in P.V., seriously?
And there are lots of Black people there. Wasn’t it nice of the President to “give” the land to the Afro-Caribbean residents who were already living there, along with the Indigenous peoples, too?
I think the author was a little outside of his “comfort zone” and allowed his prejudices to influence how he viewed the area.
And the beer IS very cold in Cahuita. At least the author got that right!Maybe this site needs to have 2 forums: one for “discussion” and one for actual information. Just sayin’.
This is a topic that has significant implications for expats and Ticos with “vacation rentals”. It doesn’t affect me personally, because I don’t rent my property out ( aside from friends who have stayed there “gratis” or the time I let it be used for a raffle prize in a benefit silent auction). In the future, I may go down that road so I want all the information I can get. If I have to pay taxes, I will do that because it is the law (and apparently has been for a while, just not enforced). Please don’t let this dissolve into a political pissing contest!!
Randall’s article puts things quite simply as far as how the tax is calculated and submitted. However, what are the other implications? Many of these rental properties are being held in S.A.’s, in inactive corporations. If these properties are being used for business, does the status need to be changed? Is this really the bigger issue for expats?
[quote=”sprite”]I have no problem with renouncing my US citizenship once I have a passport from another country to replace the US one.
This has NOTHING to do with greed for money on my part.For over a hundred years now, the international banking cartel, via the government, has hollowed out the wealth of the US and has kept the US in a perpetual state of war all across the planet. I want NO part of that. If you pay income tax, you are funding the mass murder of children. Period.
If you use the language of the sociopaths who run things and claim the deaths of all those innocent children are collateral damage in defense of freedom, you have become a sociopath by exposure to their system.[/quote]
Well, Sprite, if what you say here is the absolute truth, then I applaud you. And if Costa Rica chooses to use the tax money it collects from it’s citizens and expat residents to fund one of the best public health systems in the world, rather than to support a military, then that should be OK with you. I know it’s OK with me!
This post brings 3 things to mind:
1. Do your homework
2. If you plan to live in CR like you did in the States, it will cost you
3. You know that mold you have in your house? Hire a nice local lady to clean it at a generous wage. She is struggling to support her family on a lot less than $3,000/month.Eventually, you will find local workers you can trust to do contractor work for you. It takes time. Just like in the States. .
