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INS
Inundated With Calls Over Marchamo
There is a lot of confusion regarding the
2010 Marchamo. The Instituto
Nacional de Seguros (INS) reports it has been inundated
with calls about the cost of the marchamo
and has enabled a special email just to take
in the complaints.
The email address [email protected] was
specifically set up to answer questions on
the costs - increases - contained in the
2010 marchamo.
The INS press office asserts that all emails
will be answered.
The majority of complaints are in respect of
the property tax that is calculated by the
Ministerio de Hacienda (Revenue ministry)
but collected by the INS.
You see the "fiscal value" of vehicles
appreciated over 2008 and 2009, thus
increasing the property tax payable, which
in some cases is up to 25% and higher over
last year.
Inside Costa Rica reported on this last
month in an article titled "Vehicles
Appreciate in Costa Rica?" that explains what is going on and the
explains the problem and way, albeit
impossible way, to fix it.
Late Tuesday, the INS said it would be
refunding to the 5.000 or so people who
purchased their 2010 marchamo on Monday,
when the INS automatically included the cost
of the "Su Vida" insurance policy, a
practice that was stopped late Monday night
when the insurance superintendent ordered
the INS to keep the Su Vida option
"unchecked". |
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