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Incentives and costs

  • Investment incentives are available for activities directly related to the export of services and/or products from Costa Rica
  • The Free Trade Zone Regime grants beneficiary companies the widest range of benefits currently available in the country
  • Among the fiscal benefits granted under the provisions of the Free Zone Legislation (subject to international treaties), we can find:

• 100% exemption on import duties on raw materials, components and capital goods
• 100% exemption on corporate income tax
• 100% exemption on export taxes, local sales and excise taxes, and also taxes on profit repatriation
• 100% exemption on capital taxes
• No restrictions on capital/profit repatriation or foreign currency management
• Expedited on-site Customs clearance
• Possibility to sell to exporters within Costa Rica

  • Costa Rica has several industrial parks located in the Greater Metropolitan Area