Costa Rica News, Summarized in English and Linked to the Source

The new app developed by red taxis for transport services is called Taxi Shake and will start working next Monday. One of its features is that users will pay the driver directly. To download the application, passengers only have to register and, after passing the verification, they can choose the point of origin and destination, […]

Between January and October 2018, the prices of goods and services in Costa Rica registered an accumulated variation of 1.38%, according to the most recent data published by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC). Inflation or increase in the general price level is estimated in the country through the Consumer Price Index (CPI), […]

Used electric vehicles that are more than five years old will not pay the 30% tax on the selective consumption tax. The exoneration was announced on Wednesday morning by the First Lady of the Republic, Claudia Dobles Camargo. The plan is part of a strategy of the Executive Power to encourage the use of this […]

The opening of the Container Terminal of Moin (TCM), which is managed by APM Terminal, not only represents progress in terms of competitiveness and new jobs, it will also provide billions of colones in taxes for the state. As explained by Kenneth Waugh, director of APM Terminals, they are not exempt from paying taxes, on […]

The puzzle of the murder of Italian Ponzo Salvatore is starting to make sense. The 38-year-old foreigner received six shots at noon on May 23rd in front of the Italian embassy in Los Yoses. The shots were perpetrated by two gunmen, who traveled by motorcycle and fled to the south of the capital. The vicitim’s […]

The Drug Control Police (PCD) caught two men who are cousins and belong to a gang behind international drug trafficking. The organization used pineapple exports as a screen to send cocaine from Costa Rica to Europe. On Wednesday, the PCD raided two homes in Venecia de San Carlos in Alajuela, where they captured the leader […]