Lawyers, Laws & Taxes

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  Year 2015: The Last Year of the Corporation’s Tax.

  The Costa Rican Supreme Court finally said that the Corporations Yearly Tax should not be collected any longer, ever since the Judges ...

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  Why Eric Holder’s “Good Deed” on Civil Forfeiture…, Wasn’t That Good

  One of the departing initiatives taken by retiring US Attorney General Eric Holder was to impose limits on a legal process called ...

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  The IRS’s New Dirty Trick… and What to Do About It

  There's a good reason why Google, General Electric, Abbott, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, and more or less all ...

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  A National Public Shareholder Registry is Being Implemented

  In a Costa Rican corporation the only publicly recorded document that disclosed the name of the shareholders was the original articles of ...

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  Why FATCA Is a Train Wreck Waiting to Happen

  FATCA, otherwise known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, is one of the most arrogant and one-sided laws ever passed by Congress.

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  Buying or Building Real Estate in Costa Rica? Here is what you need to know? Part I with FREE online video interview.

  Buying property and constructing buildings or a home can be an intimidating process, even when you are at home in the culture and know what ...

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  Is Your Property In Costa Rica Subject To The Luxury Home Tax for 2015?

  Costa Rica imposes a Luxury Home Tax on property that is used for residential purposes and whose value for the fiscal year 2015 is greater ...

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  Why Uncle Sam Wants These Citizenship Programs Shut Down

  Every so often, I read an article predicting that the US and other major countries are about to force nations that offer "citizenship by ...

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  The College Education Bubble Is Coming To Its Logical End.

  This past weekend a grown, 30 year old man shot his father over unhappiness with his allowance according to reports in Associated Press as ...

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  The Latest FATCA Propaganda & Atrocities

  It's been a while since the whole FATCA charade has annoyed me enough to spend more time writing about it, but recently, a series of events ...

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