Empresa Individual de Responsabilidad Limitada E.I.R.L.Costa Rica
What it takes to form, own and run a sole trader in Costa Rica, and how its profit is taxed. Each figure links to the page it was read from.
This company type
At a glance
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Unicamente el patrimonio de la empresa responderá por las obligaciones de ésta, sin que al propietario le alcance responsabilidad alguna, pues su obligación se limita a aportar el capital.
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Comparecencia del dueño de la empresa (Art. 9 C. Comercio, circular DPJ-022-2024).
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Debe ser administrada por un Gerente, quien podrá ser o no el dueño de la empresa
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La empresa individual de responsabilidad limitada se constituirá mediante escritura pública que consignará:
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Empresa Individual de Responsabilidad Limitada (EIRL) (105) Y Demás Operaciones ₡ 2.000
Form it
Who registers it
- Registry
- Formed without visiting
- Not stated
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
- Formed online
- Not stated
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
What it takes to form
- A notary
- Required
- A resident director
- Not stated
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
- Paying up the capital
- Not in our records
Own it
Who may own and run it
- Directors
- At least 1
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Debe ser administrada por un Gerente, quien podrá ser o no el dueño de la empresa
- Shareholders
- Does not apply
- Members
- At least 1 · at most 1 · one person may form it alone
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Comparecencia del dueño de la empresa (Art. 9 C. Comercio, circular DPJ-022-2024).
- A local company secretary
- Not stated
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
- A local registered agent
- Not stated
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
Each year, at the registry
Not in our records Annual registry fee, Accounts on the public record, Audit for a small company, Audit: none of these is in our records for the E.I.R.L..
Important dates
When each obligation falls due, as the authority states it.
- Publish an extract of the incorporation deed in La Gaceta before registration
- Not in our records
With Imprenta Nacional (La Gaceta)
Not stated on rnpdigital.com/centroinforegistral/registros/personas when checked
What is public
Not in our records What the register shows the public is not in our records for the E.I.R.L..
Tax
Tax on profit
How this company type is taxed, which can differ from its place’s headline rate.
Not in our records
How this type is taxed is not in our records. A partnership or sole trader is often taxed through its owners; incp.pro does not assume it.
- CFC rules in Costa Rica
- Not in our records
Close it
Closing it
The other end, which most guides leave out.
Not in our records Route, Statutory fee: none of these is in our records for the E.I.R.L..
Every business in Costa Rica
VAT
- Standard rate
- 13%
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La tarifa del impuesto es del trece por ciento (13%) para todas las operaciones sujetas al pago del impuesto
- Other rates
- 4% Air tickets to or from Costa Rica (tax on 10% of the value for international flights); private health services
- 2% Authorised medicines and their inputs and machinery; private education (except exempt higher education); personal insurance premiums; purchases and sales by state higher-education bodies and other listed state institutions
- 1% Basic-basket goods (as set by executive decree) and agricultural goods in the basket, with the machinery, inputs and services needed to produce them
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Del cuatro por ciento (4%) para los siguientes bienes o servicios: a. La compra de boletos o pasajes aéreos
- Registration threshold
- No threshold: from the first taxable supply
no turnover threshold: art. 5 requires every taxpayer under art. 4 to register on starting taxable activities, and registers non-registrants ex officio
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Al iniciar sus actividades gravadas, las personas o las entidades a las que se refiere el artículo anterior deben inscribirse en el registro de contribuyentes que deberá llevar la Administración Tributaria.
- A foreign company
- See the note
Under art. 4 of the VAT Act the recipient pays the tax on services and intangibles bought from a supplier not domiciled in Costa Rica when the recipient is a taxpayer, and art. 30 provides collection through intermediaries and card issuers on consumer purchases; the Act states no registration, threshold or representative rule for a non-resident supplier.
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En el caso de la compra de servicios o de bienes intangibles, cuyo prestador no se encuentre domiciliado en el territorio de la República, el contribuyente será el destinatario del servicio o el bien intangible
- Returns filed
- Monthly
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deben liquidar el impuesto a más tardar el decimoquinto día natural de cada mes, mediante declaración jurada de las ventas de bienes o prestación de servicios correspondientes al mes anterior.
- Tax authority
- Ministerio de Hacienda (Dirección General de Tributación), Costa Rica
Payment and banking services
1 service names Costa Rica on its own list: Airwallex. Each provider, and what a listing means.
Reference
Its name and code
- Kind
- Sole traderDerived our grouping, the same words in every country
- Name in law
- Empresa Individual de Responsabilidad Limitada (E.I.R.L.)
- ISO 20275 code
- YW6WSecondary GLEIF, Entity Legal Forms code list