IRS in Costa Rica

Posted on February 3rd, 2008 by Angela Passman

IRS Winning friends among local bank officials!
The sign of things to come: Banco Cuscatlan now requires citizens or resident aliens of the United States to fill out a W9 form for personal accounts at the firm’s banks in Costa Rica.
Why?  Because Citigroup bought Grupo Cuscatlan from Corporación UBC Internacional S.A. for $1.51 billion in cash [...]

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Money exchange

Posted on February 8th, 2007 by Angela Passman

Most banks have ATM machines (cajero automatico in Spanish); most are part of the country’s ATH (A Toda Hora) or Red Total networks and can accept international cards.  Check with your home bank for transaction charges and if your PIN needs to be converted for use here.  Most times it does not. Lines of epic [...]

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