At the end of the year in Costa Rica, large companies and large local contributors may submit their income tax statements from 2008 through the digital taxation system.

The vice minister of Finance, Jenny Phillips, said that she expects to be able to launch this project on November 20, although it is only an estimated date.

Digital taxation is a system that will allow taxpayers to process their taxes over the Internet.

Some of the things they may do is...

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The authorities in Costa Rica decided that the new manager or administrator of the Juan Santamaria Airport will also be in charge of the Daniel Oduber airport in Liberia, Guanacaste.

The company, Houston Airport System (HASDC), is part of the Coriport, S.A. consortium, the company that would be receiving the project in Guanacaste.

The other companies that are part of the consortium are the Canadian group, MMM Aviation Group, SA, and the domestic firms, Brad & Tod...

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The dream of the past few years of having a train from San Jose to Heredia in Costa Rica will soon be fulfilled.

The government has already given the order to release ¢2 billion to bring the new rail line into operation.

That is why the Costa Rican Railroad Institute (Incofer by its initials in Spanish) is working on cleaning and improving the railway. All that is left is to clean 700 meters of line to clear the route between the Atlantic train station the Central...

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The financial crisis that the United States is going through is causing more than half of the hotels in Costa Rica to have more empty rooms than usual.

The decrease in occupancy with respect to the same time last year is between 5% and 50%, as indicated by the Costa Rican Chamber of Hotels (CCH by its initials in Spanish).

The hotels consulted said that while they were expecting a season with lower occupancy, they didn’t expect it to be so low. They hope that the...

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In Curridabat, Costa Rica, in a small office, the physicist Jorge Andres Diaz performs an evaluation and construction of new technologies to improve the detection of the leakage of liquid fuels during the takeoff of the next generation spacecraft from NASA.

The technology being tested will be part of the equipment that will be used by the spaceships in the Constellation program that will substitute the current shuttles in 2015.

Preventing these leaks will mean saving...

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