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davskiss

If you can afford it definitely take them to private. Most middle and upper class people here know the truth about public schools here which are mediocre at best

sad to say

If you cannot afford private then home school them.. with a supporting sport to help with discipline

[davidd]

This is why I dont pay any taxes.. U.S. or Costa Rica.. AT ALL aside from properties owned

and whatever I spend

I let the sheeple of society pay.

This is the only way I can sleep at night

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Scott

One does not need to be a rocket scientist to assume whatever changes will occur will benefit the awake smart ones and hurt the poorer middle class ignorant ones..

this should be interesting..

the right thing to do at this point is just get rid of the colones and use dollars as currency.. instead of creating these artificial methods that allow some to benefit with these fluctuations

make the dollar the base as panama.. instead of making believe colones are worth anything other tanks in costa rica

[quote=”Scott”]Sorry to be rude but do you really think that gardeners and housekeeper in Costa Rica understand currency fluctuations?

Few business people do…

You start paying them in dollars and their wives and husbands will be telling them that you are probably ripping them off…

It’s been my experience that most gardeners and housekeeper in Costa Rica don’t have a bank account so where do they change those dollars into colones?

Answer: In a place where they’ll probably get ripped off with the exchange rate which is not what you want.

Don’t complicate your life! Pay them what they expect to be paid in the money that they expect to be paid in …

Just my dos colones …

Scott
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[quote=”pebo1″]I tend to agree, why should I even pay the 2015 tax if it is ruled unconstitutional. Also only 6% of people have been paying the tax which was a huge surprise.[/quote]

6% sounds off but I would say.. most of the smart people that had tons of S.A. for everything already moved the assets into 1 corp.. then abandoned the others

if you own an active business you cannot get a personaria unless he S.A. is updated or do anything with the corp.

so what probably affects that 6% number are the abandoned corps that will liquidated over time.

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Barbara Ann

unfortunately the way you were brought up as many of us to pay just “pay your bill” is incorrect. This very same tool is used by large companies and governments to leverage middle class into paying because of the way we view debt and obligation.

rich and powerful people do not see money the same way

and even the ticos know this..

and after living here for almost 14 years now I must confess I have to agree with them

[quote=”barbara ann”]we have been here almost 6 years before the corporation tax was enforced. It is getting to the point that by the time you pay all these fees to live here you could live in florida. They just tripled our property taxes in Jaco, why you ask. well there is a luxury tax that is enforced for all homes over 125k colones …you have to pay it. they raised our assessment to 118thousand colones. what does that tell me?As a former realtor and a person that does not trust government period….they are pushing the valuation to get you to the luxury tax level so you can pay another tax for the services you get here. my opinion. It would be nice if they removed the corporation tax, we just paid ours because that is the way we were brought up…pay your bills. What is ironic is that Costa Ricans, example a house across the street, has not paid his property taxes for twenty years. The assessor talked to my husband when he was going through our area and told us that is not unusual.[/quote]

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Scott

good name.. i think I will save one for myself as well.. could be a nice niche have to check out the CPC as traffic

how did you like his book????

Marijuana illegal?? so is not paying taxes LOL but I leave the good law abiding citizens of the world to thier moral compass.

When I met Aspey we spoke briefly about using cannibus in various forms and he is a quiet advocate of this..

he even mentioned juicing the plant itself which I found interesting.

That would be a great niche for you Scott.. you have an open mind and are very intelligent as well as an advocate for “accurate Thinking”

I may get welovebiohacking.com lol kidding :lol::lol::lol:

[quote=”Scott”]I like Dave Asprey and have his [url=http://www.amazon.com/Bulletproof-Diet-Reclaim-Energy-Upgrade/dp/162336518X/]Bulletproof Diet book[/url]

I am also a believer in biohacking and own the BioHackingDigest.com domain name for use at some stage in the near future …

As we all know growing marijuana in Costa Rica is illegal so I would not of course encourage anyone to do that.

Having said that I do know the people behind the campaign to make ‘medical marijuana’ legal here and they have made a lot more progress than I thought they would…

Scott

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costaricabill

As much as it pains me..and believe me it hurts.. it hurts!!
8)8) I have to agree with sweikerts assesment.

Cuba can no way handle a large influx of tourism from the Americanos 🙂

Having lived in Cuba I have seen first hand the conditions of most of the buildings and establishments there which are OK

but if you add in the American tourist expectations on how things should be. I can see many pissed off people that would never go there on vacation again

add this to the general malaise of latinos.. and yo have a recipe for disaster.

first impressions count

hopefully tourism will grow at a manageable level.

heck I may even contact cuban officials and offer my services

[quote=”sweikert925″]I will bow to your superior knowledge on the subject of hotels, but I still have my doubts that Cuba has enough accommodation capacity to handle a tripling or quadrupling (or even more) of the number of tourists that it currently receives. If only 3% of the tourists that visit Florida go to Cuba too (or instead) that alone would double the number of tourists to Cuba. Are you saying they can currently handle that much of an increase?

As to real estate, I was unaware that the laws in Cuba [url=http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2014/02/21%20cuba%20real%20estate/phil%20peters%20cubas%20new%20real%20estate%20market.pdf]had recently changed to allow private ownership of real estate.[/url] However, per that report:

[i]”The opening of Cuba’s real estate market prompts many to ask whether foreign nationals and Cubans living abroad can now buy property in Cuba. In a word, the answer is ‘no.'”[/i][/quote]

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Between Cuba and Nicarugua new canel.. costa rica damn well be worried.

why??

because these countries are hungry

hungry for new change as well as the opportunity to get some tourism dollars

Cuba has hotels that need to be remodeled as well as built but also many of the smaller type of places that are available.

I have lived in Cuba for a year and it was a great experience

Think about it

if you had a choice to visit

Costa Rica or Cuba

which would it be??

Cuba has been closed for so long that people will go for that experience.

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Seikert

Happy New Year Matey!! 🙂

When will you be in town.. I owe you dinner

[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Doug Ward”]Just yell and call them stupid.[/quote]

With that type of arrogant attitude toward Ticos, it’s no wonder you’re headed off to Chile since you probably ran out of Ticos to insult. But if you bring that same condescension to Chile with you, it’s only a matter of time before you’ll have to start looking for another new country to head off to.[/quote]

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this is the only country where the car you own goes up in value as it gets older lol for tax purposes I mean

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Scott

I think this video is perfect for the market it hopes to attract.. high stress middle class corporate W-2’s. In todays economy these positions are paying less with more responsibilities.

I know many people in these same scenarios and I bet this will get some peoples down here.

then all you Realtors can paint the dream so they buy real estate 🙂

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costaricafinca

thanks for that link.. it seems to support the current way of this is being handled. my wife (union libre) is a tica and she is currently on my caja plan.

the caja is a great value for some things.. but not at $500 per month as some people (rentistas) are paying.

I also pay additional coverage for myself.

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Doug

good to see people here with some real world experience with living here 🙂 instead of regurgitating what they have read.

I now exactly what you mean 🙂

[quote=”Doug Ward”]Take all of your seguros sheets. Add. Divide by 12 and do a direct transfer. NO CASH !
“He didn’t pay me. He’s lying. I have 14 witnesses”

If you pay them more than the law requires(recommended) you only need to pay the aguinaldo by the number (not recommended)
Proceed at your own peril.
“I dunno why the saw died ? Bad gasolina !!! Drill ??? What drill?”
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Scott

I wanted to supply an update to help answer any questions.

my wife just renewed her Carnet.. part of the changes was now she will have to renew every year as well as supply proof of union.

I still pay 21.000 per month which covers myself my wife and 3 kids. which is voluntary insurance

seems like deployment of these new rules differ where you go.

BTW this is one perk I totally take advantage of since I get screwed in other areas like this stupid S.A. tax. 🙂

There are 3 major perks regarding expenses here..

1.) The farmers market

2.) property taxes.. ( so far but this may change)

3.) caja

aside from this.. the overall perks are slowly going away in my opinion with the rising costs here.

I call this value cost averaging..

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Scott

Lawfu has an excellent point..

🙂

OK I just got back from the caja in heredia.. and they gave my wife a copy of the prerequisites for renewing

I will attach a copy here and you can look at this yourself

I dont read anything what is being said here.. so lets see how this plays out

Its a new addendum and I think its meant for the homosexual couples as well..

I also believe its for NEW enrollments.. [b]NOT renewals[/b] because they highlighted a portion of what my wife needs to do to get this renewed. and this may also play out differently for foreigners..

OK guys [url=http://prntscr.com/5dsaze]here is a screenshot of the requisites[/url]

since my wife is already affiliated the yellow highlights are what is needed to renew

I really think this is geared towards new enrollments as well as foreigners.

[quote=”lawfool2″][quote=”Scott”]
Question: Knowing that you will get ten different answers from ten indifferent people working in practically any government office in Costa Rica, you prefer to believe them rather than our Costa Rica tax expert who regularly consults with Presidential candidates here in Costa Rica and a well known published Costa Rica legal expert?

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Lol. You’ve been here long enough to know that what your expert who consults with Presidential candidates says and what the local officials do are not necessarily the same. Peterson may be absolutely correct but that doesn’t do me any good when I’m dealing with the local CCSS official. What would be helpful is if he would file suit in Sala IV of the Supreme Court to have this latest regulation declared unconstitutional. Now, if my neighbors (all Ticos), my gardener and my maid all start complaining about having to separately enroll their spouses and pay extra, then I’ll believe your expert is correct. So far they are all astounded that my wife and I have to have separate accounts.[/quote]

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