• Business Leaders Seek Transparent Tax System
  
  TBusiness leaders who have been waiting for months to hear more about the Arias administration's fiscal reform plan have finally received a plate full.
  
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• Sala IV Rules Against Tax Bill Procedure
  
  The justices of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) yesterday dealt a severe blow to the tax reform bill recently approved in first debate by the Legislative Assembly when they ruled that the assembly did not follow the constitutional legislative procedure in its handling of the bill.
  
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• Tax Reforms Approved, Enter Judicial Review
  
  The long-discussed tax reform bill, approved late last week by the Legislative Assembly, has entered the next phase of its path toward becoming a law: review by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV).
  
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• Police Discover $40 Million Importer Fraud
  
  Three companies that import ceramic floor tiling from Spain committed tax fraud in Costa Rica to the tune of $40 million, by changing the values of receipts, Public Finance Minister Federico Carrillo announced Friday.
  
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• Finance Minister Launches Lottery to Fight Tax Evasion
  
  Finance Minister Federico Carrillo and José Armando Fallas, Vice-Minister of Finance and Director of General Taxation, say they plan to enlist thousands of new investigators in their continuing fight against tax evasion: ordinary citizens.
  
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• Finance Minister Rejects Budget Changes
  
  Finance Minister Federico Carrillo says the government “cannot approve” the changes proposed to the 2005 national budget by the Legislative Assembly's Finance Committee.
  
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• High Court Clears Path for Tax Plans
  
  Recent decisions by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) have injected new life into the much-debated tax plan being discussed by the Legislative Assembly.
  
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• High Court Rejects Three Actions against Tax Plan
  
  The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) on Wednesday rejected three cases filed against the Permanent Fiscal Reform Package.
  
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• Some Personal Imports Exempt from Taxes
  
  A recent and apparently not widely known change in the country's Customs Law allows consumers here to import up to $500 worth of personal goods tax-free from outside Costa Rica every six months without ever leaving the country.
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• Business Leaders Deny Abandoning President on CAFTA, Fiscal Reform
  
  The Union of Costa Rican Private-Sector Chambers and Associations (UCCAEP), which represents the country’s largest business chambers, on Friday denied recent claims by President Abel Pacheco that the business community has abandoned him in the fight to get Costa Rican lawmakers to approve the Central American Free-Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with the United States and the proposed Permanent Fiscal Reform Package.
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• Airport Receives Rave Reviews; Exit Tax for Ticos Will Decrease
  
  Juan Santamaría International Airport was recently named the third best airport in the world in the under 5 million passengers a year category and fourth overall in the Americas (including North America) by the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• Foreigners Threatened by Changes to Residency Laws
  
  The great American dream of leaving the United States to retire in the tropics may become more difficult if a new law is passed in Costa Rica, the Association of Residents of Costa Rica (ARCR) announced yesterday.
  Published with autorization of The Tico Times
  
  
• Association of Free Zones Supports Free -Trade Pacts
  
  The Association of Costa Rican Free-Zone Businesses (AZOFRAS) has announced it considers last week’s signing of the Central America Free-Trade Agreement (CAFTA) by the top foreign trade officials of the United States and Central America an important step toward consolidating the judicial security of foreign firms investing here.
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