And apparently for bureaucracies in general, including those of international organizations; an "expert" from the Inter-American Development Bank is supporting tax reform in Costa Rica.
Although officially the IDB "does not advocate a tax burden or specific tax policy," one of its officials warmly supports the project to increase the tax burden to support the Costa Rican economy, to the point of suggesting that the tax burden be similar to Argentina’s.
The coffee sector has announced its opposition to a proposal to establish a 5% surcharge on Income Tax (ISR in Spanish) for the agricultural sector.
A press release by Anacafé states:
The Guatemalan coffee industry via the National Coffee Association, Anacafe, has expressed concern about the establishment of a 5 percent surcharge on Income Tax,, referred to in the draft Anti-Evasion Act II which is now being considered in the Congress of the Republic. Political parties in their current campaigns have said that they will not raise taxes, their representatives in the legislative body have already made agreements to approve them.