On 22 March 2017, Law No. 9428 was published in Costa Rica's Official Gazette, which implements a new version of the country's annual registration tax on companies, which was found unconstitutional in January 2015 ({News-2015-02-04/A/4- previous coverage}). Under the new version, the registration tax will be levied as follows:

• For companies, including branches of foreign companies, that are r…