Lawyers, Laws & Taxes
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Costa Rica Informative Tax Returns – What is that?
One of the most efficient tools that Costa Rican Tax Authorities have are the so called Informative Tax Returns, these tax returns numbered ...
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Is There Hope When You’re Invested In A Costa Rica Land Development Project and You Discover It’s Going Nowhere?
I generally receive several of these inquiries per month from people that purchased in a Costa Rica land development project and are now ...
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Too Good to Be True…
In the 28 years I've worked in the offshore investment arena, I thought I'd heard every possible piece of bad advice clients could get.
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Review: The New Costa Rican Government Tax Plan
If this situation keeps going on without a new comprehensive tax policy, the State will be in financial ruin with a PSD of 7% to 8%, in ...
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Why Have So Many Americans Considered Expatriation? It’s Probably Not What You Think…
These are truly shocking numbers--nearly one in ten Americans thinking about giving up their birthright.
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The Federal Reserve’s War On Seniors
The Federal Reserve's "zero interest rate policy" (ZIRP) of the last half dozen years or so has been a financial act of war on the ...
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Evicting The Tenant From Hell!
Costa Rican tenancy law dates from 1995, and at the time it was a great advance towards a more balanced approach to the rights of the ...
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Why Foreign Financial Institutions Are Dumping U.S. Clients. And the money trail leads to…
Foreign banks, brokers, and trust companies are falling head over heels in their rush to get rid of as many U.S. clients as possible.
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What the Expat Stats Don’t Show…
The IRS - the agency that releases the stats - doesn't believe in providing a full accounting. I've experienced this in my own practice: ...
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The New Era of Surveillance is Here
There are no more legal protections that matter. The 4th amendment is (was) "the law of the land," and it is very clear. But that doesn't ...
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