Corporation Support
Keeping your Costa Rican company current, so a forgotten filing does not turn into a penalty or a blocked sale.
Most corporations here fail quietly, through paperwork nobody filed.
Many foreigners hold property or run a business through a Costa Rican S.A. or S.R.L. The company itself is simple. What catches people out is the annual obligations that arrive whether or not the company is doing anything: corporate tax, the beneficial ownership declaration, legal books, registered agent.
Miss them and you accumulate penalties, and the company can end up unable to sell, transfer, or open an account until everything is regularised. We keep the calendar and handle the filings.
The whole annual cycle, handled.
- Guidance on whether an S.A. or an S.R.L. suits your purpose
- Coordination of incorporation with a licensed notary
- Annual corporate tax filing and payment (impuesto a las personas jurídicas)
- Registro de Transparencia y Beneficiarios Finales declaration
- Legal books and shareholder registry upkeep
- Registered agent and legal address coordination
- Changes to directors, shareholders, company name, or capital
- Corporate bank account setup support
- Review of a dormant company and what it costs to keep or close
- Dissolution when a company is no longer worth maintaining
- An annual calendar so nothing expires unnoticed
What working with us looks like.
Status review
We check what your company owes, what has been filed, and whether anything is overdue.
Clean up
If there are gaps, we tell you what it costs to regularise and handle the filings.
Annual calendar
You get the dates that matter for your company, and we remind you before each one.
We file, you approve
Each year we prepare the filings, you approve, we submit and send you the receipt.
Bring these and we can start.
- Cédula jurídica number of the company
- Copy of the constitutive deed if you have it
- Names and identification of shareholders and directors
- Access to or location of the legal books
- Any notices you have received from Hacienda or the Registro
- Details of the current registered agent, if there is one
Dates that do not move.
Corporate obligations in Costa Rica run on a fixed annual calendar, and the deadlines do not care whether your company traded or sat idle. A status review takes us a few working days once we have the cédula jurídica.
Regularising a company that has fallen behind depends entirely on how far behind it is. We quote that only after we have seen the actual status, never before.
Requirements and official fees are set by the institutions and can change without notice. We confirm the current list before quoting, and tell you immediately if something shifts mid-process.
Questions we get asked every week.
Yes. A dormant company still carries annual obligations. This is the single most common surprise for foreign owners, and the penalties accumulate quietly.
It is the beneficial ownership register, where companies declare who ultimately owns and controls them. It is filed annually and separately from the corporate tax.
It depends on your situation, and it is genuinely a question with tradeoffs. We will explain how each option works administratively, and refer you to an attorney or accountant for the legal and tax advice.
Yes. We will first show you what it costs to dissolve versus what it costs to keep it dormant, because dissolution is not always the cheaper option.
We coordinate it with a licensed professional. We are not a law firm and do not act as registered agent ourselves.
Not sure if your company is up to date?
Send us the cédula jurídica and we will check its status. If everything is current, we will tell you that and you owe us nothing.