IRS to Help Out the Costa Rican Tax Man
The Dirección General de Tributación
Directa (DGT) - the Costa Rican tax man - is getting ready to apply
stricter controls to it's tax collection problem, thanks to the help of
the United States Treasury, that oversees the Internal Revenue Service
(IRS).
The U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica made public that Larry Westfall will be
heading the U.S. team to help the Ministerio de Hacienda (Costa Rican
Revenue Service) in planning, training, auditing and collecting of
taxes.
Hacienda has a long running problem with it's computer system and the
U.S. will help out with that too.
The agreement was signed yesterday (Wednesday) between the Westfall and
Hacienda minister, Federico Carrillo and president Abel Pacheco.
The agreement is in preparation of the planned "reforma fiscal" - tax
reform - that has been debated for some time.
Carrillo commented that the union with, and without a doubt, the
strongest tax organization in the world, will help strengthen Hacienda
and to bring more equality and justice to the Costa Rican tax system and
taxpayers.
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