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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s New Luxury Tax &#8211; Meat, Fruit and Floors Mops</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 20:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#39;t know what is going on with the government of Costa Rica and it seems like every day I/m feeling more sorry for the Ticos. Last January, the government hammered the people with higher traffic fines, tolls increases and corporation Tax and before that,&#160; the cigarette tax. We all know how importing luxury items [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s Dry Law &#8211; Eliminate the Prohibition Ley Seca?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that Gringo&#39;s have always been puzzled on is Costa Rica&#39; very old &#34;dry law&#8221; (Ley Seca); a liberal law that prohibits sales of liquor, wine and beer at Easter and Christmas, besides elections and such sectarian holidays as Sept. 15 (Independence Day). Bars are supposed to be closed &#8230; but as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s Mediterranean Fruit Fly &#8211; X-Rays and Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2011 National Geographic had a photo contest and ironically one of the winners in the nature category was a picture of a fruit fly resting on a green coffee bean in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Obviously unknown to the photographer, it  implicated one of Costa Rica&#8217;s worst nightmares is alive, well, and continues to threaten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Higher Traffic Fines, Tolls, Corporation Tax in Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One again, as the New Year gets started, Costa Rican&#8217;s will find themselves paying more to the government. Ticos by nature are non-aggressive, but this time the government may experience what American&#8217;s have seen, &#8220;country wide protests&#8221; and what some of the Bloggers are writing about, &#8220;WTF &#8211; The don&#8217;t understand land!&#8221; Starting today (Jan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica Fishing License – Fishing and Boat Fees Increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past, tourist and nonresident anglers could pick whether or not they wanted a monthly ($13 USD) and/or yearly fishing license ($25 USD). Considering that most anglers come to fish once a year (about 98%) they’d pick the cheaper.  Fishermen who don&#8217;t know this in advance have been known to get a little upset [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s Unions Strikes &#8211; Benefits &amp; Privatization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if it is just me, but it seems like every time you turn around Costa Rica is having some sort of labor strike. Last Monday, about 2000 union workers of Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) (government monopoly on power and light company) went on strike, and snarled traffic on several major streets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica Coffee and Produce Get Trademark Protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coffee has always played a major role in Costa Rica&#8217;s history and economy. Up until a few years ago it was Costa Rica&#8217;s #1 exported and very commercialized product. The largest growing areas are in the provinces of San José, Alajuela, Heredia, Puntarenas, and Cartago.  It is grown just about everywhere in Costa Rica. Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Costa Rica’s Internet Service Providers Going to Be Charging Extra for Excessive Bandwidth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of weeks one of our accounts has been having a hard time logging into their server. So after they rebooted the router a few times and then cleaned the ends of the cables the problem still existed. For a while it was driving me a bit crazy why this was happening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Process Serving in Costa Rica &#8211; Subpoenas &amp; Summons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that there are many questions about serving process here in Costa Rica. This blog is not intended to be legal advice nor is it a legal opinion. However, I think a review of the procedure for serving process in the States would shed light on the problems encountered here in Costa Rica serving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica and China Make Another Free Trade Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest bummers in Costa Rica is their infamous import tax, a horrendous tax that is applied to so-called luxury items, such as boats, vehicles and electronics. A tax that makes these items VERY expensive. Anyone that has tried to import a vehicle knows how a $10,000 vehicle can quickly become a major [...]]]></description>
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