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If you are looking into farming you might want to look into Paraguay. I have lived there for two years and the land is incredibly cheap. You would be very surprised on how advanced they are in the farming market.
I think at this moment… we don’t need to go into depth (for security reasons) but the issue is that we as Americans need to understand that if you are planning to do anything under the radar remember that the U.S. has a long arm.
[quote=”twinzor1″] I’ll assume since he is a co-worker of yours that either a) you are an employee of the IRS also or b) he is working for the IRS in a part-time (contractual) capacity, and serving as your co-worker in another endeavor. Can’t be certain about the first scenario.[/quote]
You left out one more option, maybe I work in the U.S. embassy with in a different agency. In the embassy environment agency work together in different ways and that is why we are co-workers.
But what ever… again Costa Rica is a easy country to work with and the U.S. has a long arm.
😀[quote=”twinzor1″]The IRS does not have full-time staff based in Costa Rica, embassy-based or otherwise. [/quote]
Well I guess I will have to tell my a co worker that… he will be surprised since he is one…hahahaha
I have seen it where they will freeze someones assets with the host nation cooperating fully… Costa Rica is one of them.
You all do realize that in all of the embassy’s there is a IRS agent don’t you? Maybe you don’t realize but the U.S. has been swaying all of the Central and South American countries into transparency so they can nab the U.S. tax payers accounts world wide.
They have international lawyers that work on behalf of the U.S. government to work on behalf of the IRS, DEA and other agency’s
Since Costa Rica does follow the U.S. lead in many ways they will hand over any tax invaders.Mick,I might be able to help. My wifes cousin lives their and they might have a room to rent. Give me a shout if you are interested.
What a bunch of BS! I have been married to a Tica for more than seven years. Prior to that I was married to a Gringa, and I would recommend to all of my friends and family don’t marry a Gringa.
You have to understand the rest of the world does not think like gringas and gringos they think in much simpler terms.
My wife is highly educated and didn’t marry me for security in fact at the moment she makes more than me. The artical is wrong in many aspects and I can tell you that my brother in-laws have had to take DNA tests to vari some of their children. This artical was written by a gringa with a mentality of a gringa.
My wife a Tica came to the U.S. about seven years ago. We had a baby girl and two months after she was born she had a U.S. passport and Costa Rica papers. We of course went to houston when she turned 30 days old got her pass port than traveled to Costa Rica and did all the paper work there to get her registerd and citizenship. No problems!
I think it is best to do all that paper work as soon as possible.
Now I am starting the process of getting the Costa Rican citizen ship and the people that we know there say no problem it will take about fifteen days!
Warren,
Maybe in our case since it was in the embassy, it was not automatic. You have to call them up and have it switched.
I hate to have bad news but I do have in-depth experience with this subject and tricare.
Here is a example that recently happened in Paraguay but is applicable anywhere in the world.
If you are a retiree and are with Tri care you will have to change over from prime to standard. You will than have to pay out of pocket and get reimbursed for your medical bills.
Example:
a member that was working for the U.S. DoD as a civilian but was under the Tri Care prime as a Retiree in the U.S. when he came to Paraguay he did not change over to standard.
He was in a motor cycle accident and was in the hospital for three days and had pins put in both arms. When I called the Tri-Care they stated that he was listed under the retiree program and needed to be switched to standard because prime would not pick him up internationally. Since he was working for the DoD in Paraguay he had to be changed over to standard and they would pay him after he paid out of pocket.
Now of course the total cost was only $2,200.00 and that included doctors, hospitals and everything. For this cheap of a cost I would ask why sweat the little crap of co pays and ect and just put the bill on the credit card and get the money later!!! You are paying much cheaper than any place in the U.S.!!!!!! Don’t be stupid and greedy and cry about the little stuff when the bigger picture is that you are not paying doctors hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, nurses 80,000 a year and bed pan cleaners 20 dollars a hour!!!!
>Edited on Oct 21, 2009 13:06
Hey kid where can i get one of those bookie jobs! I am legal because I am married to a tica and we have a gringa tica! Looking at moving down there this spring but want a part time job to keep me busy.
Sorry to hear about that Scott! Problems like yours are not new to countries like Central and South America. None the less it is frustrating when you are trying to do a service to your clients and people mess it up like what you have stated.
Down here in Paraguay it is just as corrupt if not more and that is what everyone that has a private biz has to put up with. I guess that is why you don’t see realtors faces on buses….
I would have to agree with most people, I wouldn’t be one of those that would pay for a discussion board type of a web site. There are some great information and I am now doing research to try this type of a spin in Paraguay. I just can’t see paying a subscription for a blog site.
No offense and I hope that you have great success but I think you will turn new comers away because of all the scams that have been happening.
I just won’t be one of the people paying for it.
I think we need to turn this topic around and not get side track on guns. If I am right it is issue of people running away from their problems and thinking the grass is always greener in Costa Rica. I think too many people have a idea what paradise is and they think that running away from their problems to Costa Rica or any other place in this world is a solution. My question would be did this women ever think about other people than herself? I know that at times of dispear we don’t think about other people but what about the people that have to clean up her mess after she commited the tragity? Who made the phone calls or who had to pay the bill to fly her remains back to the states? I hope that the U.S. goverment didn’t have to pay a role in all of this because it would be a disappointment knowing that we would have to pay for the selfish deed that this women commited.
Edited on Sep 01, 2009 17:40
I am glad that someone has recognized that it is not only the insurance companies that are the bad guys.
I do understand your point that the U.S. needs health care reform, from the top to the bottom. The only problem is how to do it! Lets take a look at the model that is currently being sent to the U.S. citizens. Competition with the U.S. goverment and a large number of uninsured or underinsured. At the moment we already have this in place and by my view point it is failing. I am not talking about Medicare or Medicad, I am talking about one of the largest private insurance companies that services our men and women in the armed forces, Tri-Care. I have firsthand knowledge about them because they are my health insurer. Tri-Care does cut the amount of money paid out on claims, they do work with the doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. It is incredible how much they pay because they do not except paying high costs and they negotiate them low. The problem is that in Minnesota (where I am from) clinics and health care providers are dropping Tri-care because they will not play the game of paying them over inflated costs.
Example: when my daughter was born, we were on the full active duty Tri-care where we didn’t pay any deductible or premiums. Prior to going on active duty I was on a Tri-Care that was 80/20 with premiums. Our doctor dropped us prior to my daughter’s birth because we were not going to pay the 20 percent, when we went to full coverage the doctor was not going to make enough money and stopped providing service!
Is this how the new system is going to work? Will hospitals continue to spend millions of dollars in decorating? Will doctors get paid more than 100,000 a year? Will nurses get paid more than 80,000 a year? Will the hospital maids make more than 15 dollars a hour? Will aspirin in the hospital cost more than you can by at the corner store? I believe yes it will continue, service will be dropped, the government will pay for insurance that is not used and the system will break down!
I know that here in Paraguay and in Costa Rica they don’t have the same costs that are attached to their systems. That is why doctors in these countries are not considered as gods, the people are not addictive to healthcare and if you ever go to any of the public hospitals they will not have millions of dollars of decorating. Here in the rest of the world you pay for what you get!
