In just two days, 44 domestic employees were insured by their employers through the platform of the Centralized Collection System (Sicere). Gustavo Picado, financial manager of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), said that employers exceeded expectations and even had many inquiries both in person and on the online platforms that the institution put […]
Archives for August 10, 2017
Mario Redondo will confirm presidential candidacy on Saturday
This Saturday, the National Assembly of Christian Democratic Alliance (ADC) will ratify the presidential candidacy of legislator Mario Redondo for the elections of February 2018. Redondo said the announcement of his proposal will be made at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of the Bar Association and that about 200 people from all over the country […]
Victims of “Matapobres” were locked in cement tomb
Wálter Espinoza, director of the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ), said that the victims of “Matapobres” (the poor-killer) in Desamparados were locked in a cement tomb inside his house. The OIJ managed to raid the house on Thursday at 2 p.m. and found four men and a woman “in a kind of cement tomb that was […]
Churches, unions and political parties won’t pay taxes
A little more than a week after President Luis Guillermo Solis announced “a crisis of liquidity”, the government presented a bill called Law for Strengthening Public Finances that includes changes in Income Tax, creates Value Added Tax (VAT), and has a chapter on “Fiscal Responsibility” as well as one on Public Wages. Regarding the Value […]