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Written by Rod Hughes
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Friday, 27 August 2010 19:19 |
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Fierce lobbying by the Association of Call Center Employees may allow Internet gaming operations to avoid the worst of a new gambling tax bill submitted to lawmakers last October. The measure was presented to the lame duck Legislative Assembly to bolster revenue to help offset a rising public debt.
The gambling tax of 15% of gross earnings per month appears now to apply only to local casinos if the amendment is approved. Internet gaming companies registered here would escape with a $50,000 per year levy, reports the Top 10 Costa Rica blog.
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2010 21:47 |
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An “Invasion” That Never Was |
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Written by Rod Hughes
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Friday, 27 August 2010 15:55 |
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A PERSONAL REPORT-- The controversy over the entrance of U.S. anti-narcotics patrol ships in Costa Rican ports continues to produce reader response in local newspaper op-ed pages and in blogs around the world. Some of the responses seem to hearken back to the bad old days of the Cold War when the right-left political divide yawned even in this peaceful country.
Perhaps the knee-jerk reaction of some Costa Ricans who cry that Costa Rica is being “militarized” by allowing these ships to dock can be explained by an experience this reporter had in 1979 when the 42-year-old dynasty of the Somoza family was in its death throes in Nicaragua.
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"Houston, We Have No Problem..." |
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Written by Rod Hughes
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 16:51 |
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If a Costa Rican president had made, 30 years ago, a speech inviting space age industries to settle in Costa Rica (as President Laura Chinchilla did in her May inaugural address) likely it would have raised derisive snorts here. But Chinchilla's invitation today merits serious consideration internationally.
The difference is not only that foreign companies producing equipment unheard of 30 years ago have established branches here. Three decades ago was before the Ad Astra Rocket Company of Houston, TX, established a research center in Guanacaste province to produce a revolutionary rocket engine advanced enough to make NASA's chemical rockets obsolete.
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2010 21:45 |
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