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Weekly Report - 31 March 2011 (WR-11-13)
COSTA RICA: Chinchilla puts campaign promise aside
The government has withdrawn from the unicameral national assembly
(AN) a bill proposing the creation of a 15% tax on casinos and a yearly
US$50,000 tax for call centres working for overseas betting houses. During the
electoral campaign that turned her into Costa Rica's first female head of state,
Laura Chinchilla had presented this new tax as the means to finance the fight
against crime; with the tax proposal out the window it now remains to be seen
how the government will foot the rising security bill.
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