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Plan launched to collect ¢8 billion
in taxes
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 By A.M. Costa Rica staff An agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the National Registry will allow the automatic update of the tax value of properties. This tool will improve efficiency and tax collection for mortgages, property transfers and land segregation, officials said. The agreement was signed by Fabiola Varela of the National Registry and Juan Carlos Gómez of the Direct Taxation Department. The agreement between the two institutions will allow the Ministry of Finance to know the real value of properties, based on factors like the public deeds of transfers, mortgages and land segregation or subdivision, the registry official said. "With this agreement, we managed to be more efficient as a state in keeping the tax values of real estate updated, which will allow us to improve collection. We are talking about that in most cases the transfers will be processed with contractual values," said Varela. According to the National Registry report, from Jan. 1 to Aug. 10 of this year, 42,261 purchases of complete farms were entered, of which only 17,219, around 40 percent, paid a transfer tax on the sale value. The remaining 60 percent that did not pay the tax represents ¢4.15 billion that the Ministry of Finance did not receive. In the same period 36,142 mortgages were registered, of which 19,697 (54.5 percent) reported a commercial value greater than the value reported to the Treasury. That means that the ministry could make a future collection of ¢4.73 billion when the value of the property is updated.
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A.M. Costa Rica wire services
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The agreement between the two institutions will allow the Ministry of Finance to know the real value of properties.
This agreement allows the real values, or market values, of the properties to be updated daily. This means that the new fiscal value, which is used to calculate the tax, would be updated directly. Officials estimated that the collection for transfer of real estate will increase by some ¢8 billion in the second semester of this year, thanks to this agreement.
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Organ
transplants save 88 lives
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By A.M. Costa Rica staff The Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Program of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund reports that 88 patients are now living with transplanted organs. For these individuals with terminal damage to a vital organ, heart, liver, kidney or lung, their only chance of survival was to receive a healthy organ from a living or deceased donor. According to the report, 68 transplanted organs came from a deceased donor and 20 from a living donor. Of the surgeries, 45 were performed at the Calderón Guardia Hospital, 24 at the Mexico Hospital, 12 at the Max Peralta Hospital, four at the San Juan de Dios Hospital and three at Children's Hospital. So far this year, organ donations from individuals who died in accidents exceeds the total of 34 donations in 2017. Specialists encourage drivers and others to sign organ donation cards as one person who dies a accidental death can provide organs for up to nine others. Marvin Agueron, co-coordinator of the donation program said that: "These donor families, in the midst of their pain, shook hands with strangers,” by providing an organ. In the difficult time following the death of a loved one, they find it fills them with peace by giving life to another person, he added. In addition to the donation of organs are the tissue transplants. These include bone marrow, corneas, skin, heart valves, tendons, bone and amniotic membrane.
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According to the report, 68 transplanted organs came from a deceased donor and 20 from a living donor. Another of the improvements in the donation service has been the storage of umbilical cord blood in the Blood Bank of Social Security Fund. Blood in the umbilical cord is full of stem cells which, in the future, may be used in the treatment of disease. In Costa Rica, people must register their wish to donate organs, and there are currently 35,699 people registered as organ donors. Those wishing to be an organ donor must follow the procedure that has been published on the website www.ccss.sa.cr/donar |
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Alvarado government polling poorly |
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By A.M. Costa
Rica staff
According to the results of a survey conducted by the University of Costa Rica, 35.7 percent rated the Alvarado government as bad or very bad, 35.3 percent of respondents rated it as good or very good, and 29 percent consider it regular. The survey was conducted by the Center for Research and Political Studies of the University of Costa Rica. The survey, published by the newspaper Semanario Universidad, was taken from Aug. 13 to last Thursday, with telephone interviews of 720 people.The results have a margin of error of 3.7 percent, the center said. Carlos Alvarado began his term May 8 and served a hundred days in office as of last Thursday, a period in which his priority has been the promotion of a tax reform to alleviate the growing fiscal deficit that closed in 2017 at 6.2 percent of the gross domestic product. On the topic of insecurity, those with a negative opinion of the government were 59 points more than those with a positive view. Those with a negative view of the fiscal deficit were 43 points more than those with a positive view. The best qualified area in this balance is the management of climatic emergencies with those reporting a positive view 42 points higher than those holding a negative opinion.
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 A.M. Costa Rica wire
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On the topic of insecurity, those with a negative
opinion
of the government were 59 points more than those with a positive view. Alvarado's government, which won the second round elections last April against conservative evangelical Fabricio Alvarado, will be in power until May 2022. To the closing of this edition, the government has not given any reaction to this survey. The original survey can be reach at Semanario Universidad web.
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Prosecutor accuses Óscar Arias in
Crucitas case
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By A.M. Costa Rica staff The Prosecutor
General's Office accused former President Óscar Arias
Sánchez of malfeasance in the so-called Crucitas
case.
The former president is being investigated for decreeing that the mining project, operated by the company Infinito Gold Mining in Cutris de San Carlos, was of national convenience. In September of last year, a criminal court asked that the legal status of the former president be determined. Arias was never charged for the granting of the mining concession or for the declaration of national convenience of that activity, but his former minister of the Environment, Roberto Dobles, who also signed the declaration, was charged in the case and convicted in January 2015. Arias was not charged then. This sentence was annulled, and a preliminary hearing is pending to establish if the case is going back to trial. The case now will be brought before the Criminal Court of the Treasury which will hold a hearing to determine if there are enough elements to bring it to trial. "The Prosecutor's Office signed yesterday the accusation against Mr. Arias for the crime of malfeasance. The law establishes that in cases where the offending party is the duties of the public function, the fiscal conclusion must be communicated to the Attorney General of the Republic, so that this body may decide whether to file a complaint (private accusation) and/or an action civil indemnity, with which you can request an economic amount to compensate the State for the damage that has been caused, the attorney general, Emilia Navas, said Tuesday. The prosecutor has 13 days, starting today, to present the prosecution and the civil action. Once this period is over, the General Prosecutor's Office will send the accusation with the documents delivered to the Criminal Court of Finance and Public Function, of the Second Judicial Circuit of San José," the Prosecutor's Office quoted in a press release. Arias was investigated in Nov. 8, 2017, and insisted on his innocence.
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A.M. Costa Rica wire services
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Arias was investigated in Nov. 8, 2017, and insisted on his innocence.
The reactivation of the case
was covered by a legal analysis ordered by
the attorney general in order to deepen
the search for new evidence that was not
incorporated into the investigation file
at the appropriate time, the judiciary
said.
Arias served two terms as president. The first term was from 1986 to 1990. The second was from 2006 to 2010. It was during the second term when the Crucitas situation developed. The Crucitas open pit gold mining operation was controversial. After Arias signed the decree, a court shut down the project to protect some trees favored by endangered birds. The mining company's Canadian parent. Infinito Gold, Ltd., brought a case in March 2014 against Costa Rica in the World Bank's arbitration system based on a trade agreement between the two countries. That case still is pending, and Costa Rica just filed additional paperwork last month. The Crucitas site now is invaded periodically by illegal miners. At one time the company estimated that there was about $2 billion in gold in the ground.
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Six drug suspects arrested |
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By A.M.
Costa Rica staff |
 Drug Control
Police courtesy photo
The group was dedicated to making wooden pallets for the pineapples which were transported to Germany. At the time of the closing of the edition, the suspects had been taken to the Public Prosecutor's Office so that the legal situation could be defined and precautionary measures requested. |
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Former
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legislature
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By A.M. Costa Rica staff Former president Luis Guillermo Solís will have to present himself to the legislature Sept. 10, to explain budgetary discrepancies amounting to billions of colones. Solís will appear before the Commission of Income and Expenditure after the legislators approved a request to call him to account for the budgeting problem. Jonathan Prendas, president of the commission, said, “This Wednesday we had confirmation by Solís. Currently the former president resides in the United States where he works as a teacher at Florida International University.” The lawmaker said that the hearing is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. but could be moved to the evening hours, if necessary. The legislators determined the need for the hearing because the former finance minister, Helio Fallas, pointed out that the president had known about the huge lack of money in the government budget for some time. |
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Currently the former president resides in the United States where he works as a teacher at Florida International University |
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