This luxury tax is such a small amount on the most expensive property, if you combine the luxury tax with the property tax (0.25%), maybe just maybe….. You’ll still be under 1% total both combined!

And remember. About change. This is not a p[olicy targeting foreigners it is a much needed change in global policy and many Costa Ricans are wealthy and do indeed have nice home. Very expensive nice homes.

Not to mention every Tico and Gringo with money and a nice home evading real property values with false declared values being registered to save money on the ridiculously small amount required be payed in the first place.

Basically… Costa Rica has to ding everyone at customs with import taxes because they can’t seem to organize themselves to be able to collect the little that they require be paid by law.

If we don’t buck up, and we are talking such small amounts compared to USA standards of taxation, we can’t complain about roads sidewalks and the lack thereof.

HCR

The government has a questionaire which asks a series of things like the square meters of you lot and the square meters of the house. And other things like the age of the home the length of the fence and or the number of gates, etc. We just spent the a couple of hours filling out the form.

The government has a questionaire which asks a series of things like the square meters of you lot and the square meters of the house. And other things like the age of the home the length of the fence and or the number of gates, etc. We just spent the a couple of hours filling out the form.