TRIBU-CR: Costa Rica’s New Digital Tax System
By Manfred Peters, GM Attorneys at Law Starting in October, a new online platform will change how residents, business owners, and investors handle taxes in Costa Rica. Big changes are coming to the way Costa Rica manages taxes. Beginning October 6, 2025, the...
Is Costa Rica the Silicon Valley of Central America?
Costa Rica wraps business ambition with pure-life energy. In a single week, you can pitch a venture fund in San José, mountain-bike cloud forest trails, catch a marimba night in the city, spot scarlet macaws on a jungle river, tour a coworking villa while scouting...
Gateway to the Americas: Why Global Companies Choose Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Where Business Meets the Good Life Costa Rica is where serious business meets the good life. You can surf Witch's Rock at sunrise, tour marimba workshops and galleries by afternoon, watch scarlet macaws flash over rainforest at dusk, then close a deal from...
Costa Rica’s Bush Medicine: Backyard Cures You’ve Never Heard Of
Most travellers come for surf breaks, hanging bridges and rumbling volcanoes, then stay for gallery nights, marimba in the plaza and ceviche still singing with lime. Step behind a tin-roofed home, though, and you’ll find another strand of Costa Rican life: a backyard...
Paragliding Costa Rica: lift-off over jungles, reefs and volcano rims
Costa Rica is built for adventure. One hour you’re sipping a café chorreado after a dawn surf; the next you’re drifting above jungle canopies, tracing the curve of a Pacific bay while scarlet macaws flash like confetti below. Culture hums on the ground—marimbas in the...
Whistling Conversations: Costa Rica’s Forgotten Birdsong Language
Costa Rica is famous for surf breaks and cloud forests, but it’s the small, odd, human things that give the country its heartbeat: adventures told over gallo pinto, culture shared on a breezy veranda, entertainment that might be a neighbour’s marimba or a story...
Fashion Flash – To Be or Not to Be-Kini
[vc_row full_width="full_width"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The original two-piece bathing suit invented in 1946 by Louis Reard, was named “bikini,” after Bikini Atoll, where nuclear bomb testing was taking place. So, is the bikini the nuclear bomb of the last...
Coffee Flowers at Midnight
Costa Rica is packed with adventures — volcano hikes, scarlet macaws overhead, ceviche by the beach, and a business scene buzzing with both tech start-ups and real estate ventures. But tucked away in the hills is a secret most travellers never hear about: the midnight...
The Rise of Wellness Real Estate in Costa Rica: Yoga Pavilions, Organic Gardens and Spa-Style Living
Costa Rica wraps everything the modern wellness seeker wants into one daily rhythm: jungle adventures and surf before breakfast, marimba and gallery nights for culture and entertainment, scarlet macaws looping overhead for wildlife, property choices that put nature...
Five Sure-Fire Ways to Lose Expat Customers in Costa Rica (And How to Win Them Back)
Costa Rica’s magic sells itself—adventures in the surf, culture in the plaza, entertainment after sunset, wildlife at every turn, real estate dreams by the beach, business deals over casados, and food that tastes of the tropics. But even the best location can’t...