The Costa Rican Ministry of Finance has modified the deadline for filing the Registry of Transparency and Final Beneficiaries (RTBF) declaration for the period 2024, opening the possibility of filing it from October 1st until October 31st.
What is the RTBF Declaration?
The Transparency and Final Beneficiaries Registry (RTBF) corresponds to an obligation that every Costa Rican company must report in the online system developed by the Central Bank of Costa Rica, information regarding its participants (shareholders, quotaholders) and final beneficial owner, as well as other information. relevant to the corporate structure.
The information reported is not publicly accessible and in order to include the data, the legal representative of the company must have a Costa Rican electronic signature and specific powers of attorney to do so.
Additionally, all the information on the shareholding structure must be available, down to the last natural person, which is not always easy and, in many cases, will entail an in-depth analysis and review of the corporate scheme.
Failure to submit the RTBF Declaration will imply that the National Registry Office will not be able to issue certifications of legal status or registration of documents in favour of the company and additionally a fine of 2% of the gross income of the entity for the fiscal period prior to the one in which the violation occurred, with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 100 base salaries.
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