Meet OVi: The Secure Gateway to Costa Rica’s New Tax System
Costa Rica is launching a new digital tax era. Meet OVI — the secure portal where taxpayers, expats, and businesses manage everything in one place — and TRIBU-CR, the powerful system behind it. Safe, unified, and built for the modern taxpayer.
From cyberattacks to digital resilience — how Hacienda rebuilt its tax platform with stronger walls and smarter gates
A few years ago, Costa Rica’s government learned the hard way what digital vulnerability feels like. A major cyberattack crippled key institutions — including the Ministry of Finance (Ministerio de Hacienda) — disrupting online tax filings, customs systems, and payment portals for months.
That crisis became a wake-up call. If the country wanted a modern, transparent, and secure tax system, it needed to rebuild from the ground up.
This change affects everyone who pays taxes in Costa Rica — from individual salaried employees and self-employed professionals to large corporations and foreign investors with local tax obligations. For expats, this means a new way to interact with Hacienda’s digital systems: simpler, more unified, and far more secure.
The result: OVI and TRIBU-CR — the two pillars of Costa Rica’s new digital tax era.