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I am very grateful for David Murray’s contribution over the years but this forum is made up of more than one person and as usual with Forums, there are a LOT more people watching and learning than there are actually participating in the Discussions.
I am always interested in hearing our VIP Member’s ideas about how would you would suggest we make this website less “boring” and more “interesting”
Please let me know….
Scott
I arrived in Costa Rica in 1999 and although I have had my car radio stolen when it was parked outside a restaurant in San Pedro (part of San José), I also had my car radio stolen in New York and in Grand Cayman…
When I lived in an 100+ year old adobe home in Escazu, some SOB stole my rocking chair from outside the house.
Apart from that, I have never been attacked and have had no bad experiences here at all except with death threats (and more) from Gringo scam artists who were clearly upset that my warnings were ruining their sales efforts…
Scott
PS. But yeah! The legal system SUCKS!
FYI – As a matter of policy ‘orphan posts’ are deleted after a week…
Like most governments, our government here is totally incompetent and dysfunctional – they will never take responsibility for the disgustingly bloated mess that they are with their obscene salaries and even more obscene pensions – and we should all expect that they will continue to try and suck more money out of our pockets rather than look at their miserable performance, expenses and mistakes…
PS. The article referred to is: [url=https://www.welovecostarica.com/public/4867.cfm]Costa Rica Rental Property Owners – Beware![/url]
PPS. You are welcome to contact Costa Rica tax expert Randall Zamora for a free copy of his Costa Rica Top Ten Tax Tips, please contact him at:
Full Name Randall: Zamora Hidalgo
Business Title: Founder & President
Company Name: CostaRicaABC.com
Address: Heredia, Costa Rica
Website Address: http://www.CostaRicaABC.com
Email address: welovecr@costaricaabc.com
Telephone numbers: +506 2263-7344[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Scott”]What do you think?[/quote]
I think it is shameful when a visit to Costa Rica by the UN Secretary General specifically to address a humanitarian crisis in that region involving thousands of children at risk of violence in their home countries is totally ignored and used a pretext to once again bash Jews.[/quote]
You may have misunderstood my posting sweikert925….
I don’t want to “bash Jews” at all, what I would LOVE to see is Costa Rica following Bolivia’s lead and rightfully declare Israel a “terrorist state” and to prosecute Israel for “crimes against humanity.”
This may be a silly question but how would your ‘contract company’ know that you are working ‘outside of the U.S.’ anyway?
Thank you, Mayra and I have had a lot of fun this year…
A life of leisure, travelling to wonderful places, catching up with family and friends, meeting other fun people we’ve never met before and enjoying great food and good wine really suits us. 😛
You should try it some time!
Scott
You mean these “tax cheats”?
“Among companies listed on the S&P 500, [url=http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/25/2840141/10-percent-americas-largest-companies-pay-percent-tax-rates/]almost one in nine paid an effective tax rate of zero percent[/url] — or even lower — over the past year, according to an analysis by USA Today.”
Ha!
Although I’m sure we probably have our fair share of typo’s here and, as you have probably noticed by grammar skills suck! 🙂
Being “right” or “wrong” with any investment is not important – you can sometimes be wrong with your initial investment criteria and still make money and you can be correct with your initial assumptions and still lose money.
The most important thing is that you decide on what level of risk you are financially and emotionally capable of handling, that you are managing your risk to the best of your abilities and that you are making money…
Jeeez! Hope you had time to enjoy yourself too …
I am grateful for the prices but our readers should always remember that forgetting taxes and insurance (where applicable) for a minute the, cost of transporting these items from the U.S. to Costa Rica has to be considered and for most items (not all – especially heavily subsidized products in the U.S.) this will normally make them more expensive than locally grown/produced items.
The cost of living has certainly increased here but as you will know, after you’ve been on the ground for a few months in any new location, you will quickly find and gravitate to places where you will find freshest products at the most attractive prices …
I think you will find that no matter what your local bank manager in Costa Rica tells you, the Costa Rican banks and other financial institutions have have been sharing what most people considered ‘private’ financial information about U.S. citizens with the U.S tax authorities for years, especially if there ever was movement of US$10,000 or more to and from that account.
If you waited until you had your Costa Rica residency approved and opened your Costa Rica bank account with your cedula (which has to be a tiny percentage of people) then you ‘may’ be safe from prying eyes – temporarily.
But we should also remember that the cedula used to be coded by your nationality, *I honestly don’t know if that is still the case today*, I will try to find out, but if it is, they will obviously know who are U.S. citizens by your cedula…
I don’t think that “open up new accounts with your cedula and close any accounts that you opened with a passport” will help because your privacy has already compromised.
Lastly, if [url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-control]William Binney (ex-NSA)[/url] is correct when he says that: “At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US… This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.”
Then I would agree with Imxploring 100% when he says: “And with as desperate as governments are becoming… do yourself a favor and don’t place yourself in the crosshairs!”
PS. Ron Miller summed this out of control surveillance state up beautifully in his article: [url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247007/Ron_Miller_NSA_can_track_every_email_but_it_can_t_find_a_plane]NSA can track every email, but it can’t find a plane.[/url]
Here’s what he said:
“We are told that we can be easily tracked through our smartphones and other electronic devices. We are told that this data collection is done in the name of making us safer, by stopping a terrorist attack in real time.
We are led to believe that if we collect enough information — indeed, if we collect all of the information — we can see the connections and make the leaps and stop attacks before they happen.
That’s what we’re told. That’s the justification for all this surveillance. And yet if we can’t find a jumbo jet after nine days in a world covered by satellite cameras and radar facilities, are we supposed to believe that collecting every one of our emails and listening to every one of our phone calls and following every one of us around as we move through our lives will make us safer?”
“This will have no bearing on legal residents that opened a bank account with their cedula” except that any and all private and public banks in Costa Rica will share all U.S. citizen banking information with the U.S. whether the U.S. citizen has a cedula or not…
Scott
