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The new luxury tax on homes was printed in “La Gaceta” in Dec. ‘08, the official newspaper for Costa Rica. The law only becomes official when it is printed in this newspaper. The version can be found by googling “ley 8683” and it should be the first hit.
Two points that have been mentioned in this forum; 1)who has to declare and 2) can you split the property to lower the total construction value are addressed in articles 6 & 7 of the law.
Article 6 a) states that those properties with less than 100,000,000.00 colones in total construction (including buildings, lawn, fences, pools, etc.) are exempt from the tax.
The last line of Art. 7 says that “only those owners of properties referred to in article 6 aforementioned, are exempt from the duty to declare.” ( my translation)
This would add substance to DavidCMurray’s lawyer’s argument that those that don’t have construction over the legal financial limit established by law 8683 don’t have to file.
Article 7 paragraph 3 addresses conjoining properties with the same owner. It states that conjoining properties shall be considered for tax purposes as one property if they have the same owner. If the route is taken to split properties to lower construction value on each property, it seems that at the least the properties would need to be separated by a fence or delineated as separate is some way. They would also need to be in different corporations or automatically would be considered one due to the fact that they’re owned by the same person/corp.
according to the new law 8683, Ministerio de Hacienda has to produce the manual 45 days before Jan 1.
Automercado hasnt had dry whole soy beans for almost a year, at least at Lindora or Multiplaza. They are available at “macrobioticas” in San Jose. I recently bought some about 25 meters north of Mercado Central. I’ll have to post the name later as i dont have it right now…
