Costa Rica’s Sala IV (Constitutional Court) ordered the Ministry of Finance (Treasury) to reveal the list of tax debtors, including the names and amounts of the individuals and legal entities that owe money to the Treasury.
The Court considers the information public access, as stated in its decision of February 8, 2018, supporting the ‘recurso de amparo’ (writ of appeal) filed by the Frente Amplio legislator, José María Villalta, to whom the Treasury denied the list of debtors who could benefit from the tax amnesty introduced by the tax reform.
The amnesty is a period of three months, between December 4, 2018, and March 5, 2019, in which tax debtors can pay their outstanding taxes exempt from paying interest and fines that can be as high as
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