Comments on: Sixteen businesses including hotels, restaurants, and bars closed by tax authorities

By: Karen Mata

Karen Mata — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:24:00 +0000

The past two presidents of Panama are both businessmen, and self made multimillionaires. Here you’ve elected a lifelong teacher whose biggest accomplishment had been (allegedly) getting his students into the kip.

By: Karen Mata

Karen Mata — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:33:00 +0000

The fabulous upside of all this is I can return to Rohrmoser (resided there 16 years) and purchase at a huge discount.

By: Upset with goverment of CR

Upset with goverment of CR — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 22:22:00 +0000

Local Bar´s are closing everyday because of Tax issues and its hard to make money look at Stanley Irish pub in Zapote they where busy every night but taxes where killing this small business that had 12 staff.

By: Upset with goverment of CR

Upset with goverment of CR — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 22:20:00 +0000

Your right without representation in Costa Rica nothing will change with CR goverment. There is movement that i see growing to start massive protests to change goverment in Costa Rica such as lower pension for ex goverment staff and lower salaries for congress. Expect big protests soon.

By: hpwolfe

hpwolfe — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:23:00 +0000

There are two issues: 1) Are the tax laws appropriate? (which most comments seem to address); and 2) What to do about tax evaders? Maybe the laws should be changed, but in the meantime, if some people are paying these taxes, everybody should. Maybe there would be less complaints about taxes if everybody some improved in infrastructure and services which are now being starved by a lack of funding.

By: David Jones

David Jones — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:20:00 +0000

That’s why there’s only one Gringo bar left. When the Nashville bar closed the reason given according to a Gringo newspaper was that alcohol was taxed heavily amongst other things and a profit was hard to come by.

By: turbooperator

turbooperator — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:11:00 +0000

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:10:00 +0000

de veras?

By: mhogan

mhogan — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:35:00 +0000

Why should they start honoring agreements — it has never stopped them in the past. The government does what it wants. There has never been a tax that Costa Rica does not like. If they put as much effort into thinking how to improve the GDP and get people employed (other than for the government; if it isn’t already the country’s biggest employer, it’s a close second), Costa Rica may actually turn the economy around. But, of course, it won’t.

By: James F. Agnos

James F. Agnos — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:59:00 +0000

More taxation without representation. To the Oligarchy. Where else does the money go? The roads, bridges, and infrastructure are much better in Panama and Nicaragua (poorer countries).. Costa Rican banks handing out credit that will never be re-payed. Where can it end?