Costa Rica is finally implementing the Hague Convention on the Apostille system, meaning that all documents issued abroad –in countries which are signatories of such treaty- will be easier to process so they can be recognized. Such foreign documents will only require, for their validity in Costa Rica, to be apostilled in the country of […]

The Costa Rican Congress approved, last December 22, 2011, a law which establishes a new corporate tax on all Costa Rican companies.  This additional tax on companies, which includes the traditionally used “Sociedad Anónima” (S.A.) and “Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada” (S.R.L.) will be charged, for the first time, in April 2012 and then, yearly, each […]