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Costa Rica A Paradise Where Taxes Are Minimal



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span                            to pay income tax coming from     
class="cap">Most        abroad, would be if your income   
people who take up              was less than eight hundred       
residency, do business or even        dollars a month. Any earned       
visit frequently are surprised to     income below this amount will not 
learn that the tax system in          levied income tax. Above this     
Costa Rica is much less               salary however, the income tax    
complicated than many European or     you are required to pay will      
North American countries. It is       range from 10 to 15 percent,      
much different than that of           dependant on the amount you earn. 
United States, mainly because         In Costa Rica, the tax year ends  
anyone relocating to the country      in September.

                 
can quickly understand the            

Government Tax

             
system.                               

Each area of Costa Rica land   
Overall, the basic principle for      is divided into branches of local 
paying taxes in Costa Rica is         governments (or municipalities)   
based upon level of earnings. If      who oversee the collection of     
you earn over a certain amount of     government tax. Just as in the    
income, you are liable to pay         United States, this government    
income tax to the government.         tax is used to provide services   
There are four main types of          to the residents such as          
taxes that a foreigner moving to      electricity for streetlights, or  
Costa Rica will have to pay –         garbage removal etc… Each area    
income, government, property, and     has its own government tax, at    
sales tax.

                        its own levels that to go towards 

Income Tax

                     the services that municipality    

Everyone regardless of his or      provides. Depending on the price  
her citizenship pays income tax       of your home, you will also be    
in Costa Rica. However, the only      required to pay a government      
way in which you would not have       property tax.

                 



Property Tax

                   drastically lower than what you   

The government of Costa Rica       are used to.

                  
has established a Costa Rica          

When it come to taxes,         
property tax equivalent to 0.5        everyone will have a different    
to1.5 percent of the purchase         situation, and it is therefore    
price of a home in Costa Rica. If     important to consult your tax     
you are planning to purchase a        advisor when considering the tax  
home in Costa Rica, expect to pay     implications in any relocation or 
property tax for Costa Rica real      that of any foreign country. One  
estate, at the price similar to       thing the Costa Rica government   
that of many states within the        does well is that it goes easy on 
United States. With one large         its own citizens, and relocating  
exception,…The cost of the home       residents when it involves prying 
will be considerably less!

        the tax dollars from              

Sales Tax

                      them.


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