Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA - The President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, has welcomed a number of tax reforms proposed by the Costa Rican Government and urged the legislature to approve them without delay. "The time of discussion is over, the time has ran out for looking for alternatives, the...

QCOSTARICA JOURNAL - As legislators continue their work on "modernizing" the tax on motels that was established 43 years ago, let's look back at how this tax came to be. It was in November 1972, in the middle of the last government of Don Pepe (Jose Maria Figueres Ferrer), when...

QCOSTARICA - Is Uber looking for a fight in Costa Rica? It may appear so, given the most recent statement by company's director of communication of Uber Mexico and Central America, Luis de Uriarte: "We are a private service; it is a contract between private individuals, between a person giving...