Two groups try to professionalize real estate agents

By: Garland M. Baker B.

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In a country where real estate or attorney used in the same sentence as ethics is an oxymoron, two organizations are trying very hard to bring some sanity to the real estate profession.  There are two real estate associations here: CGGAR, the Costa Rica Global Association of Realtors, and CCCBR, the Camara Costarricense de Corredores de Bienes Raices (Costa Rica Chamber of Real Estate Brokers). 

Registro to auction goods of firms that do not pay tax

By: Garland M. Baker B.

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Doomsday is coming for expats and Ticos alike who have ignored their responsibilities under Law 9024. The law is better known to all as the Impuesto a las Personas Jurídicas or the company assessment tax.

The law provided several bailout provisions. There is only one left, outlined on Oct. 28.  This last provision allows anyone with judicial and extrajudicial authority or full power-of-attorney in a company the ability to relinquish their post through resignation by April 1.