By: Garland M. Baker B.
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Anyone with a company in Costa Rica is required to have legal books. The problem with them is they are easy to lose or misplace. It is virtually impossible to do business or maintain a company without the books. If there are assets in a company with no books and no representation, they are locked up and unreachable. Even to legitimate owners.
It can be a big headache to replace them, especially if for some reason no legal representative exist in the company.
Attorney Allan Garro of Garro Law, found a catch 22 in the process to obtain new books and went to bat to clear up the confusion with the tax department and public registry. He succeeded, and it is now possible to so.
